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THE RED AND BLACK
Proposed Amendment.
Athletic Council
Athletic Council Amends the Consti
tution of Athletic Association,
subject to Ratification.
Owing to tin* difficulty that
the Advisory Committee lias o\- jiMing tin
perienced in the election of olli-
cers for the Athletic Association
and the I!ki> and Black, the
Athletic Council at its last meet
ing adopted a Constitutional
Amendment changingthe meth
od of election of these officers.
This amendment will lie posted
for two weeks, after which the
Athletic Association will he call
ed upon to ratify it.
The sections of the Constitu
tion governing elections read as
follows :
“ Art. Y 11. Sec. 2.—Nomina
tions for .all offices in control of
the Athletic Association, except
for Captain of Football eleven,
Captain of Baseball nine, and
Captain of Track Athletic Team,
shall be made in open session of
Athletic Association ; any man
securing
manv as jo <
ndorse-
Ath-
uients by members of tin
letic Association shall be inni -
iiitl il for election by Advisory
Committee. The Secretary of
the Association shall forward to
the Secretary of the Advisory
Committee all nominations.
Said Committee shall then elect
from men so nominated. Fight
votes shall be necessary to
elect.”
“Art. VII. Sec. 2. (a.) —
< (Ulcers of the Kk;> asi> Bi.ack
shall lie nominated by eight
votes in the Advisory Board,
subject to ratification by inajor-
it\ vote of Athletic Association.
Three-fifths vote of Association
may reject said nominations.”
The amendment proposes to
strike out the sentence in Art.
V11. Sec. 2, “Fight votes shall
be necessary to elect,” and sub
stitute therefor : “ a majority of {| |( . Athletic
those voting in tin* committee |,ahincu
MEETS AND TRANSACTS SOME IM
PORTANT BUSINESS.
The Athletic Council met at
the S. A. F. chapter house on
Bee. Nth for the purpose of ad-
ul-lock in the Ad
visory Committee elections, and
to receive the reports of mana
gers of athletic teams for the
past year. There were present
I’rof. Morris, Col. John Welch.
Banks, Watkins, McCutcheou,
Finncgiu, Cavis, Boggs, and
McWhorter.
In order to provide a remedy
for the diilicitlty now existing
in the election of athletic Olli
ers, an amendment to the con
stitution of the Athletic Associ-
tion was offered by Mr, Wat
kins and adopted by Council,
providing that in all elections
or nominations in the Advisory
Committee, a majority only of
those voting shall lit* necessary
to elect or nominate, the name
receiving the least number of
votes being dropped after each
ballot.
Manager McWhorter sub
mittod bis report for the foot
ball season of 18!)!), showing a
deficit of tf2hO.(Ml. Prof. Mor
ris stilt"d that it would be im
possible for any inter-collegiate
games to be played in the future
unless some definite proposition
was made to the faculty, show
ing how tuese deficits may bo
avoided in the future. Messrs,
.lack McBride, F. K. McCutch-
eon, B. F. Fimiegin, If. B.
McWhorter, John Banks, vnd
Col. John Welch Were appointed
a committee to consult with the
managers of other teams its to
their methods of management
and to formulate some plan to
submit io the faculty.
Manager McWhorter was
granted what money there was
in the hands of the treasurer of
Association to pay
due on uniforms
('apt. Finnegan was given
permission to invite Mr. John
Temple til'll yes to give a lecture
in Athens some tline soon for the
benefit of the 1!MK) Track Team.
At the request of some of the
students the Council gave per
mission to any member of the
University to wear the letters
on a cap or hat.
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A. Convention.
shall elect, the name rec
the least number of votes in
each ballot being dropped until
a majority is obtained. Incase
of a tie,the chairman shall have
the deciding vote.”
A similar sentence will be
substituted in Art. VII, Sec. 2,
(a) for the words, “by eight
votes in the Advisory Board,”
so as to make a majority vote
nominate the officers for T tin
Uki> and Bi.ack.
This amendment will effect a
much needed reform in the elec
tion of our athletic office.s, and
it is to be hoped that the amend
ment will be ratified by the As-
social ion.
eiving bought at the beginning of the
season, as it was not thought to
b fair to Manager McWhorter
that his report should have to
bear the expense of permanent
equipment, Council also grant
ed Manager McWhorter what
ever money might come into the
treasury after Christmas, as far
as necessary, to pay on equip
ment for this season. This will
reduce the football deficiency to
about 1130.00.
Manager Bodd. of the ’!(!)
track team and Manager Ad
ams of the ’D!)
submit!' d their
I)—d, '00: I was called on
four times in Psychology last
month, busted three limes, and
yet made " very good” on my
report.
B—g«, '00: That’s nothing.
The Chancellor thought vou
these report- were referred to s
the auditing committee of the
Council.
A letter was read from Mr.
John Lombard, Secretary of the
S. I. A. A., stating that the an
nual convention of the associa
tion would l>e held in Atlanta
on Friday, Dec. 22nd. Mr. A.
Mr. A J. McBride Selected as Geor
gia’s Representative.
The animal convention of the
Southern Inter-Collegiate Ath
letic Association will lie held ill
Atlanta, on Friday Bee. 22d.
Fach college in the Association
is allowed one representative,
and Mr. A. .1 McBride has been
selected to represent the Uni
versity on that occasion.
Two amendments have been
proposed for adoption at the
convention. One relates to the
regulations governing players
on athletic teams, and the other
to the enforcement of penalties.
The sect ion of t he S. I. A . A .
Constitution which governs the
eligibility of players on athletic
teams reads as follows :
“Art. IX, Sec. I—No person
shall I ligible to take part as
a contestant in any event of this
Association who is not a bona
tide student of the college oil
whose teams he plays—matric
ulated for the term within thir
ty days after the beginning of
said term (not counting the
opening day) in which such
contests take place, and regu
larly pursuing a course in said
college that requires Ins attend
ance upon at least five lectures
or recitations a week, or their
equivalent.”
The lir-,1 ameiidmeiif proposes
to change the word “term,” as
it occurs in this section, to “col
lege year,” tints prohibiting any
student from engaging in base
ball or track athletics, unless he
enters the folleg or University
In- attends, within thirty days
from tile opening of the fall
term. Under present regula
tions, those students may par
ticipate in athletic games who
matriculate within thirty days
after the opening of the Febru
ary term.
The second amendment adds
a new section to Article XII of
the < 'on-tittitiou.itnd reads thus :
“The President shall enforce
all penalties provided in this
Constitution, and he shall tix
baseball team penalties for the violation of
reports, and laws where no penalty is
pecified; but all of his acts
must be submitted by him to
the executive committee for ap
proval.”
An X Ray Hxperiment.
Needle Located in a Negro's Foot by
Means of the X rays.
Saturday morning notice was
circulated at chapel that the Se
nior t 'lass w,as expected to he
present at !).HO o'clock in Mooim
college for some X ray work.
There was an old negro woman,
who was suffering from a
die in her heel, which she de
sired to he located for her, if
possible, with the X ray appa
ratus.
At the appointed hour, the
class assembled with Prof. Pat
terson, and soon the old woman
arrived. The electric battery
and all the apparatus was made
read\ for producing the X-rays
the electric lights were turned
on, and the windows darkened,
as sun-light interferes with the
X-ray work. The current had
I teen turned on meanwhile to
ascertain if the apparatus was
all in order, ami the old negress
was told to prepare.
Bv t his time she was beginning
to get badly frightened and
would yell out now and then :
“ IV skeered—Use ertreliilin
till over. Is hit gwine ter hurt ?
Use feered liit’ll kill me.”
The doctor finally got her
ready in theoperatiugchnir and
pacified her as much as possible
by letting her look at Iter baud
tlimugb the lleuroscope, so that
she could see the bones in her
lingers, and by showing her
that no pain was to l>> feared,
and that till she hail to do was
to sit perfectIv still
Although a sight of her linn I
through the lleuroscope some
what mystified her, she l>"cnmo
quiet enough for the work of
the locating the needle to begin
—a very difficult task on it"-
colllll of tile smallness of the
shadow thrown bv the lie
Oil to tile lleuroscope.
< hvitig to tli difficulty of lo
cating a needle with the eye, it
was decided to take an X-ray
photograph of the foot ; for this
would show exactly in what po
sition the needle lay hidden.
This was accordingly done, the
exposure of the plate lasting
some eight minutes, and the re
sults obtained wet
The powers and uses of elec
tricity are among the great won
ders of the nineteenth century,
and it is not rash to say that its
future developments will con
stitute tic greatest wonders of
the twentieth. II. A. II
Prof. II : Mr P. what i- a
battering ram?
P—k,'02 : It’s something to
clean out a cannon with.
Prof. B t in Junior Math.) :
Mr. Potts, bow would you work
this example?
Potts : 1 wouldn’t work it at
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were doing “ very good” not to resent the
bust the fourth time
meeting.
was chosen to rep- all, Professor.
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