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lMMHi if 1 TTTFC.D AY SEPTEMBER 15; 193C PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAP HEEL i ! i! r 3 S ' . i-i tf.t I. I it t It 1 ) 1 i f7 The cffkizl newspaper cf tfcs PuMicatioza Ucica Board cf the University cf North Carolina at Chapel HiS, where it is. printed daily except Mondays, and , the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. O, under act of iuurch 3, 1879. , Sub-, scription price, $3.00 for the college year. Don K. McKee A. Eeed Sarratt, Jr.. Thomas Eli Joyner. .Editor For This Issue News Editor: Lytt Gardner Managing: Editor Business Manager So T1u3 Is CarcHaa o Gettin Education Friday will find you, in all probability, sitting passively on your backbone in a, crowded class room listening to a lecture. You will be scribbling down in a notebook facts thrown indiscriminately at you . and your fellows by a ladeler-out-of-in-formationjwho calls himself your teacher. Our college educational set-up, you will discover, is not much different from high school. It is a sys tem geared to cram your head full of as many facts as the. prof essor, with the help of grades, examinations, and recitations, can pack in. About Christmas time, after exams and the courses are over, the funny thing is you'll have forgotten about all the facts you thought you had "learned." If the information disappears, what will you have gained by attending classes for a quarter? Well, if you adjust yourself into our educational system remain passive in the class room, confine yourself to absorbing enough of the professor's predigested and organized thoughts to pass examinations refrain from doing your own independent thinking and taking the initia tive for your study you will have gained nothing. If you memorize facts dished out by the prof and refuse to learn the "technique of finding, ' things you want yourself iiow helpless you . will be after college ! Acquiring information is sec . ondary to learning how to think. Even though our system of teaching places, in the main, an, over emphasis on spoon-feeding you facts arid telling you what rather than how to think, education is not essentially a process of acquiring packets of information. It is not some thing that college does to you or bestows upon you. - You do not attain it by passing courses and making grades. Education is a process of acquir ing habits and attitudes that produce growth and lead to the fullest development of your person ality, for the highest social good, What are these attitudes and habits that make for growth ? Curiosity and open-mindedness, abil ity to do your wn thinking, techniques of un-I- biased inquiry and examination, habits of ap praisal and evaluation, social attitudes of getting along and cooperating with others, and physical habits of living with always a maximum of bodily energyLLet no professor's spoon-f eeding,no spec-teterSencfi-philosophy, no dulling classjjois-; sit uation whichiassjumeg -ftHMlSve no desire or abil ity to think for yourself stand in the way of de veloping these habits! 'But, despite the system of education, the stu dent determined to grow and develop can do so. " Sit down now 'and ask yourself what you want. L Then, shaking yourself free from educational 'conventionalities, go after it I No one can educate you or rob you of an education. An education is ' not bestowed upon you; it must be won! ; Spend more time in the library than on, the spectator's bench. Dance and have a good time, but in your more serious moments do a little - thinking. Strive to understand yourself (we come to college to stand before the mirror of self-criticism) and your world (find out, if you can, who : you are, what is life, ; what is n good, what forces operate about you)'. Don't swallow everything the prof essor says and let him do your thinking; but examine, analyze, and evaluate things for . .yourself. ! Be loyal to the truth not the crowd. . .Question and doubt everything ; the raiser ,of - doubts is the only man who can save .civilization from the ways of the mob. Your character will be the result of. the choices you make ; so in all situations select the rhighest and best. . JCnow your lack and remember if you're dissatisfied vWith yourself,' then ;(as Professor Phillips Kussell suggests) you got , possibilities. Enchanted Maze Carolina's got a magnificently wretched reputa tion for loading her students down with campus activities, sidetracking them "from their books, : developing their work-abilities. During the hextf our years you'll be politicians, - publication men, athletes, "Y" workers, musicians, debaters . . . You'll be subconsciously .building, if your attitudes are right, self-reliance, initiative, leadership, and, just ,as important "follow-ship." You'll be serving the campus and yourself. Extra-curricular opportunities are abundant; , ;but without self -development and service as your aims, four years of headline chasing .and key col lecting won't amount to more than four years wasted. Only the character qualities that you've . absorbed will help you in your future life. . Choose your activities, therefore, in the selfish light of your future good. When you leave Caro lina you'll want to be a personal powerhouse, not a foolishly expectant "campus conqueror" with .'. out an army, .without - - .---J. M.'S. Adapted from Canadian Student by Nell Booker Student Body Leader Explains University Honor Council Plan By John Parker, Jr. Student self government is the most cherished heritage in the University. During recent years it has been under fire in many institutions throughout the country, arid has been repu diated by many on the grounds that it will not work. Today "-student self govern ment is to be found in only a few . colleges in the United States. The University there fore prides itself upon the fact that its students still govern themselves. Nor has student self government remained in the .University as an institution which has become" outworn.- The opposite is true. . Student self government is today perhaps : stronger than it has been at any time in the past. In my mind student self, gov- ernment and the honor system -are synonymous terms. I be lieve the honor system to be stu dent self government based upon the principle that students will conduct themselves in accord- ? ance with certain honorable standards, and will discipline 'or' :mjin'x!&t those who fail to do so. When I say honorable stand . ards, I mean those which are recognized in any organized so ciety. These standards are the very basis upon which a society is built, and a, disregard for ' them results in a disregard for law and order. At that time, only-the iron hand of a dictator can restore the status quo. You can readily see that the very es sence of democracy is embraced by student self government.. Students learn to govern their own affairs and problems in just the same manner as they must- do in later life. In other words, the University has set up stu dent self government so that it might act as a training ground for citizenship in our democratic form of government. Student self government has established a Student council to enforce and-carry out the prin ciples which ,are necessary for the welfare of the community. IThe Student council is composed of 10 members : president of the .student body, . chairman, vice president of the student body, sophomore representative, jun ior representative, pharmacy school representative, medical school representative, and two hold over members. Breaches of the honor system are Beard by this body. If a man is found guilty, he is suspended from the University. If a man fails to re port a violator, he is as likely to be suspended as the violator. The man who fails to report is un dermining the foundations of student self government, and if such is allowed to exist with no restrictions, student sell gov ernment will, soon .fail. In order to strengthen the honor system, the student body . voted last spring to set up class honor councils. There :are at ft iWMsx - : v.-. - a- ::'-...........:::":"-...... -.-.-.: Parker present three honor councils : one for the sophomore, one for the junior, and one for the sen ior class. The respective class councils are composed of mem bers elected by the respective classes from a list of 15 nomi nees selected by the Student ooTinp.iUTblass rpprespntat.iye onthetuaeht council serves as chairman of his class council, and the president of the respec tive class also serves- The duty of the i honor . councils is to see that the honor system is faith fully adhered to in their respec tive classes. Violations of the honor system are brought before them in the first instance: If the defendant is found guilty, he is sent before the Student council, where ' sentence is passed upon him. The freshman honor coun cil will be elected sometime around, the middle of the fall quarter. The vice president of the student -body sits as chair man of this body. On this board will also sit two faculty advisers who will serve in only an ad visory capacity. This is some thing new to student self gov ernment in the University, and it is hoped that it will make stu dent self government even stronger thai; it is at present. ; A COMPLETE . DAIRY 5 SERVICE from Your t ; Chapel Hill Dairy Salesman GRADE A PASTEURIZED MILK GOLDEN GUERNSEY MILK GOLD SEAL ICE CREAM WHIPPING CREAM COFFEE CREAM SOUR CREAM BUTTERMILK "COUNTRY STYLE" BUTTER MILK -CHOCOLATE MILK SKIM MILK BUTTER COTTAGE CHEESE . ORANGEADE Dial 7766 Durham Dairy Products Inc. ' Chapd Hill Branch tier!: Discuses Rushing Utiles, - Frctcmity Sst-Up For Freshmsrc .Vhbh" 'scholarship, "wy (pJL this campus the Jtor Chancellor -Harry Woodburn 'JZffiES Chase of New York Versg SJdJ leisure tin and a former President oi xne . . . j Clark T WTtv of is scarcely - problem amon 1 r, T VT " h-fomitv 'members. Most ira- Una once re- ternities encourage-and even re marked t hi s quire members to engage m about college many campus activities . One fraternities: other value of campus fraterm- , "The f rater- ties need scarcely be mentionea City is fun- the - development of social damentally a poise. ctoud of col- The imitation to join a fra- lege students ternity comes from the unani congenial 'in mous action of the chapter it tastes and self. Before the invitation is ex- character, livlnsr together hap- tended, each party is given an pily because c they have some- opportunity to size the other up thing in common with each during a period known as rush other." In other words the fra- ing season. If you do receive an ternity as you will come to know invitation to . join a fraternity it is merely a group of boys liv- you should , think seriously be ing together, working" together, fore accepting it. Remember the and playingtogether, using, at chapter house will be your home the same time, the fraternity for the period of your college unit as a base for broader con- life. The members will be" your tact with the various features intimate friends. The vital fac of college life in particular and tor in your decision, therefore, with society in general. . . " is the personalities of the men Phi Bete Begins themselves and the reputation The college fraternity system they have on the campus. Of had its beginning in 1776 with secondary importance you might the founding Phi Beta Kappa consider an attractive house, as ' at William and Mary. At the sociation with those prominent end of the first half-century of in campus life, the size, or age, ; its existence Phi Beta Kappa or scope of the national organ- became a scholarship honor so- ization the roster of important ciety; however, other social fra- alumni, and such matters. Be ternities had spread rapidly uri- member, - also, that chapters til today there are 77 national change in personnel over a pe fraternities with 2713 chapters, riod of time. A group that Frat .Values might have suited a friend or Since the fraternity system relative several years ago may has become , a very prominent now be entirely different. There feature of college life one is jus- fore,' be sure that your person tified in asking the question ality fits in with that of the what are some of the values of group. You should certainly not fraternity membership? Col- neglect to inquire into the finan lege covers a span in life that cial standing and obligations of -4olds .tremendous possibilities the fraternity. And the schoias- "f or the development of an indi- ticnd social position of the fra vidual's personality. Chapter ternrton the campus should be life teaches the fraternity man of fundamental importance to how to get. along with people, you. -how to seek grounds for mutual Each SSar e fraternities at understanding and appreciation. Carolina pledge slightly over The fraternity house furnishes one-third or freshman class, a college hbme for the chapter The InterfrateTnity Council has. members, and chapter life is a already posted in dormitories real experience in- cooperative and other prominent points living. The member learns to strict rules governing the rush respect the opinions of others, ing and pledging of all new men to share with them, and to as- in the University. It is essential sume his part of group obliga tion. He inds sympathy and help with his personal problems and, especially in the case of new men, aid in adj usting him self to the life about him. Away from personal aspects the fraternity encourages that these rules be studied and followed-to. the letter. Rushing season opens October 4 and closes October 17. From the time you arrive in Chapel Hill to the opening day of rushing season you. should have no con - Continued on last page) C 40 To The LA OF 9 - The Book Exchange Is the Students' Shop We carry all the books and supplies used here; . - - This is the Campus Headquarters for .drinks, cakes, candy, smokes and pipes. o have a most complete stock of dis tinctive Carolina jewelry and stationery. You will find our line of athletic supplies and Clothes without equal and in prices to suit pveryone. u Get Acquainted with V THE BOOK EXCHANGE Located in Y. RL C. A. r I - s
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