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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAB HEEL SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937 ht Batty Car Heel The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring: Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post See at Chapel Hill, N. CL, under act of March 3, 1879. Sub scription price, $3.00 for the college year. Don K. McKee -Editor A. Reed Sarratt, Jr.. T. Eli Joyner . - Jessa Lewis" .. , -Managing Editor -Business Manager .Circulation Manager For This Issue News: L. L Gardner. Sports: R. Simon. Big-Name Barifls IUST AS UPPERCLASSMEN were about to V place an extra tax on themselves yesterday to bring an orchestra with a big name down here for Junior-Senior dances Leader Ramsay, Potts arose and made a fiery attack on the proposal. So did Grailman Bob Gardiner ' " The motion did not pass The difference between an orchestra with a big name and one like Jimmy Poyner, Potts de clared, was not worth an extra assessment. To think of blasting $3,000 in two days for Horace Heidt was preposterous. People at the dance are going to have fun, any way, he said ; it is not the big name of the orches tra that makes a good set of dances. The finest dances on the campus are the coed and Grail dances which always of fer local bands. '"' ;T". Moreover, exhausting fees every junior, and senior pays for an affair in which only a few. participate is unjust to the rest of the class. Especially when the funds we throw into a $2, 000 or $3000 weekend may be spent ' for more permanent and beneficial uses! The senior class must not forget it has a part ing gift to leave the University yet, and invita tions and regalia to purchase. If we cut down needless expenditures for these orchestras With the Big Name, each senior might be able to get his invitations and regalia free I o Legislature THAT THE PROPOSAL for a campus legisla ture will come to an immediate student body vote now appears certain. When back in 1928-29 a similar proposal met defeat, objectors were harping that the Di and Phi would lose their historical positions, that nu merous and futile statutes would be enacted by the legislature to destroy the glories of our con stitutionless Student Council which can always act on the moment and on the case, unbound by former rule, and finally that "politics" on the campus wouldn't like the new assembly. But the 1928-29 discussions were confusing administration of the Honor System with ordin ary campus legislation. Under the present propo- -sals, which have been well refined, the new cam pus congress will leave the judiciary functions to the regular Council and the executive func tions, of course, to the president of the student body. "Separation of powers- something we haven't got now," claim the promoters of the pre sent program. The Di and Phi have no historical positions to day. If anything, the new move would restore to them some of their original grandeur,, if it be that their names are retained as well as their meeting halls. "Politics" have changed too; and the new legis lature would certainly be plenty of new pickin's. Only one point: it might develop that the frater nity strength, overshadowed by .30 representa tives from town and 30 or 40 from the dorms, would be considerably" weakened. United frat vote in a bi-cameral body, however, could direct ly affect any" two-thirds legislation. Quarterly meetings (of indefinite length) seem to be the favored times in committee now, since sparse sessions would be impressive and give op portunity for sufficient work to pile up. Of course the President could call meeting of his congress. The most significant point in question is the assembly's power. Certainly any veto by the Stu dent Council would reduce the congress to a posi tion of no authority at all. But present plans say the Council will only be judicial from now on; itH only handle honor cases! Already the Student Council has theoretical campus legislative power, limited by its small size, it cannot exercise them to anything like the degree that the congress could. For example, a Student Council opinion on 8 :30 classes would have considerably less weight than a like opinion from a Congress, of 127 students representing every nook and corner on the Hill "Democracy instead of oligarchy, separation of powers," . advocators all say. ' But the three main advantages of the congress would be the training of men; the" excitement arid general in terest in student government (indirectly in the honor system) that would come with tfie activity of the campus congress, and the complete airing of all campus legislative issues arid situations with the resulting quick tabulations of campus opinion and authority. The ultimate success of the legislature is en tirely possible,1 but - it depends largely, if not al together, upon the responsible, personel of this first tradition-setting assembly. KALEIDOSCOPE By Tom Staksack Before a certain Purdue Uni versity professor accepted a bet challenge on the outcome of the Indiana-Purdue game, sent to him by a fellow professor at In diana University, he dug up sta tistics showing the Purdue had won the majority of games, he watched the team at practice arid consulted with athletic' di rectors. Feeling sure ; that Purdue would win on the basis of all the substantiation, he mailed his ac ceptance to the Indiana prof es- When the game ended in a tie, both professors breathed more . easily and re-pocketed their re spective nickels. The Fraternity ." rushing sea son at the University of Penn sylvania has certainly broken all precedents for hovel, breath taking tactics. At the beginning of the season two girls' names were placed mistakenly but quite officially, on the University pledging lists. The Greeks lost no time in initiating the most intensive rushing program of their motley careers. The girls were wined and dined and told of the glories of old Phi Phi. From every side they were be seeched "to join up with the brothers; you won't go wrong." Hiram College seems to be leading the field in unique edu cational experiments. Its new curriculum provides for only one subject at a time studied very intensively. It is claimed that such a system makes for better concentration. The University of Oklahoma has a new panacea for the fail ure problem. The plan is to in stitute a flunking fine of three dollars for every semester hour of a course failed. It's an idea; we might be able to-pay -for the new gym that way. I like exams I think they're fun I never cram And I don't flunk a one ; I'm the teacher. Octopus. Matrimony seems to be defi nitely unattractive to our coed generation. It was revealed in a recent questionnaire at Hunter College that but one out. of 930 desired to be married after graduation. A sociology quiz given recent ly at the University of Washing ton revealed that a large num ber of students at college know next to nothing about world af- fairs. For instance only 85 per cent of those answering the quiz could name the recent Republi can candidate for president, not a half of them knew who John L. Lewis was, and 10 per cent could not name the vice-president of the United States. KILOCYCLE KIBITZES By Eddie Perkins WDNC 1500 Kc. (CBS) 5:15 Mai HaUett's Orchestra 7:00 Saturday, Night. Swing Cluh; Bunny Berigan's Orchestra 10:00 Hit Parade . , -.11:00 Benny Goodman's Orchestra' WPTF 680 Kc. (NBC) 6:00 Top Hatters Orchestra 10:30 Irving S. Cobh; HalJohnson's Choir WBT 108a"Kc. (CBS) 8:30 Philip Morris; Russ Morgan's Orchestra 9:30 Saturday Night Serenade; Bill Perry Week-end Memo JV -fto. C Cor resp o 11 d en ce Letters Over 250 Words Subject to Cutting by Editor O Junior-Seniors To All Juniors and Seniors : There seems to be a chance for the junior and senior classes to procure Horace Heidt to play for the Junior-Senior dance series. At the meeting of the classes in Memorial hall Friday morning, opposition was expressed to the plan, mainly because it involved more expense and the adminis tration opposed it. We are seniors, and this is our last set of Junior-Seniors. We want a good orchestra, and as Horace Heidt has undoubtedly got a good orchestra, we want him if possible. An extra assess ment will have to be paid, but value received will offset any ex tra assessment within reason. Sell Your Bid Those -juniors and. seniors who are not interested in dances will be able to sell their bids at a price which -frill -off set the ex tra assessment! and we do not think that selling the bids will defeat the purposes of the dances, for there has never been a set of Junior-Seniors at which there was not a large group of precocious freshmen and sopho mores. We don't want anybody to lose money on dances, but on the other hand, we don't want a potentially good set of dances spoiled by a poor orchestra. We are attaching some senti ment to this last group of Jun? ior-Seniors, but who can deny that social activities are an in tegral part of one's college life; therefore we want these dances to be good. We don't want any" more of Harry Reiser's "Eskimos," or the like. Money spent on such bands is wasted, and we'd rather go the whole hawg or nothing when we go trucking. DICK HICKS AND FRED parrish: Birthday Greetings Today to Gus Evans Forbes James Moore Parker Louis Schehr O Tennis Monopoly To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Maybe I'm unreasonable, but after spending five hours, from 12:30 until 5:30, and only get ting 20 minutes of play on the clay courts, I . got a bit . peeved. That was early this week. Then there were four courts available for non-squad tennis players. . Now there are exactly two. Of the 12 clay courts, only two are ayailable for the general student body. Most of the non-squad tennis enthusiasts play on the concrete and asphalt courts. For the bet ter non-squad tennis enthusiasts, it is literally insulting to ask them (or infer by prohibiting them from playing on the clay courts) to play on the concrete and asphalt courts. Why? For these reasons : Reasons 1. These better players spend as much money for equipment as the varsity players, sometimes more. This equipment can not be used satisfactorily on the hard courts. 2. Most' of these players rate just below the varsity squad and are good enough to give the freshmen varsity a good work out. Why should they be thrust down among the ball batters who play on the hard courts and use rackets and balls of indifferent quality? . 3. These good players would . just as son not play at all rath er, than play on the hard courts because the life "of five to seven dollar gut is cut in half on the concrete and asphalt; the rac quet frame is in constant danger of being cracked by contact with the hard surface; and tennis balls, which normally should be renewed every other time, last only for one afternoon. - I'm not suggesting that the varsity should not have prefer ence; but P fail to see why they should have complete dominance. Imagine coming out at 12:30, - skimping lunch to arrive early, getting a court and about 10 minutes later being ousted in deference ta some freshman squad members. Then waiting until about 5 - o'clock, during which time the varsity has mo nopolized about nine of . the 12 courts and the graduates have two of the remaining three, I finally get a court, only to lose it 15 minutes later to some late- Candid Candidates By Gordon Burns J This is the first of a series of daily statements by candidates for major offices this spring. Ed. Marvin Allen ; Talking between innings of an intramural baseball game, Mar vin Allen, University party's candidate for. the presidency of the student body, yesterday briefly outlined his plans for. -governing the student body if he were elected for the position. "I am a firm be liever in the Hon or. ;System," declared Allen, panting a little from his exer tion, "and if elected, I would up hold it to the utmost. In this con nection, I would like to see a better understanding by the faculty of the code." Honor Councilor Serving on the student coun cil his sophomore and junior years, Allen now works on the senior class honor, council. Speaking for these class councils the former track star continued, "I am very anxious to see more active class honor councils, al though I realize that a part of their inactivity lies in the fact that they are only a year old on this' campus." Cake race winner, vice-president of the Athletic Association, and leader in the Grail, Candi date Allen is in favor of staff election of publications heads, provided "that I am guaranteed that all politics are eliminated. Otherwise the election will re main in the hands. o the cam pus." ' A little pressed to return to his players, Allen concluded, "If elected, I will make a point not to stir up trouble merely to have the student council in action. I believe that the success of the present administration lies in the fact that it has not had to make its own cases." Youguessographics Junior-Senior Dance Committee comers on the varsity. If the varsity must practice, which is assumed, why not have them practice at allotted times, say half from 1:30 to 3:30 and the second group from 3 :30 to 5:30. By doing this they could use a few less courts, instead of spreading out their practice over the whole afternoon and keeping other tennis enthusiasts from playing at all, or virtually so. , Perhaps that isn't the solu tion, but' there must be some way of ameliorating the condi tions. . J. A. M. Request To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel : May we ask the cooperation of all students in reserving the .playground - at the elementary school for the use of school children?-For a; good while it has been the practice- of students living : in houses close to the school grounds-to go out to prac tice football, golf, etc, on the children's playground. Frequent ly the playgrpund is entirely vacant and it seems the natural thing for others to take advan Continued on last page)
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