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THE RED AND BLACK
Campus Color
Nort Sanders
Well, by this time our undefeated
varsity is in “Yankee land.” If the
boys keep visiting the north at this
rate, they’ll soon be losing their
Southern accent.
• • •
From advance reports, the largest
crowd ever to witness a Georgia-
New York university pigskin battle
will be on hand when the two teams
battle for the third consecutive year.
It looks, at this time, as though the
Bulldogs have a pretty good chance
of plucking the colorful Violets. De
spite their defeat last Saturday at
the hands of the Oregonians, said
Violets are far from being wilted,
and, all in all. it looks like one Ellu-
va scrap!
« « •
There’s one thing about the col
lege student who charges his pur
chases, he gets a lot more credit
than the one who pays cash.
• * »
Despite the fact that Hobart col
lege has lost twenty-four consecu
tive football games, the male stu
dents have determined to procrasti
nate shaving until their dauntless
but discouraging varsity succeeds in
emerging from a fray with a vic
tory. It won’t be long until the
barbers in the town will be offering
football scholarships.
• * •
After all the gusto about giving
the band trips this year, it looks as
though the “blaring” members are
actually going to be rewarded with
TWO trips out of TEN games. The
generosity of the athletic commit
tee is bewildering! Next year all
games should be scheduled for Ath
ens, and then the band wouldn’t have
to be taken anywhere. Economi
cally speaking, it’s at least logical.
• • •
Probably the most outstanding
athlete at Georgia who receives the
least credit and publicity, is Carl
Bernhardt, our great track per
former. Carl has broken no less
than two cross country records, and
unless I’m mistaken, he’s going to
break the conference record before
he’s through this year. Speaking of
speed, he’s got “it.”
• • t
These Tulane rooters aren’t see
ing red—they’re seeing a GREEN
Wave, and nothing else. It’s a pity
that the New Orleans institution en
joys bowling over set-ups more than
they do meeting a logical number
of real teams. Tulane will doubtless
be the favorite when they invade
Sanford field, but when they LEAVE
it, we hope it's going to be a differ
ent matter.
• • •
Certain football fanatics have en
deavored to remove the “kick-off"
play, as a result of the death of
Army’s end. Why not abolish auto
mobiles? Some thousand times as
many people annually journey sky
ward as a result of auto accidents.
The kick-off is one of the most
thrilling plays in the modern game,
and its abolition would be a severe
detriment to the sport. There’s lots
of KICK to the kick-off!
• • •
Unemployment seems to be the
result of too many people enjoying
enforced vacations. That’s the trou
ble with people, they’re never satis
fied! They’ve been asking for va
cations for years, and now that they
have one, they gripe about unem
ployment. As Shakespeare said,
“Wotta life."
Finished Dormitory
Will Quarter 140
University Students
The new men’s dormitory which is
being erected behind the Com
merce-Journalism building will ac
commodate approximately one hun
dred and forty students when com
plete.
The dormitory will be a two-story
structure made up of eight separate
units each of which will house from
sixteen to eighteen men except the
center unit which will accommodate
about twenty-two students.
All units will have a bath equip
ped with two showers and three lav
atories.
The dormitory will also have a
lounging room for the occupants and
a ladles’ rest room for the visiting
mothers or sisters.
The heating system will be one of
the new Vacuum-Vapor plants .
Although the contract calls for
completion by May 1, 1932, the
architects, Hentz, Adler, and Shutze,
assert that the building will be com
pleted by April 1, 1932.
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A BIT OF IRONY
(Continued from page 4)
money on parallels in a course taken
by only a few students. Professors
who teach those courses, they say,
are informed that the co-op will be
glad to order the books, provided the
professor or instructor will guarantee
that they’ll be sold. As if any fac
ulty member gets a large enough
salary to be able to do that.
Our co-op is a very wary organiza
tion. It will never be caught in
any depression. It is the policy of
the co-op to make very, very con
servative estimates of the number
of books that will be purchased
each term, and then follow those
conservative estimates in ordering
books. I believe that's the case. The
co-op may deny It. The co-op sel
dom, if ever, loses money on an
order. But students must sometime
wait days and weeks for greatly
needed books. And their school
work suffers needlessly.
• • •
J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford
should come down to Athens and
take lessons In the art of handling
a business. The co-op could teach
them lots about how to be big bus
iness executives. Safe and sane,
never gambling, the co-op goes on
making money, a goodly amount of
money for the size of the business.
Students complain that the co-op
charges exorbitant prices. That may
be true of certain articles. But, I
believe, articles for which the co
op charges higher prices may be ob
tained out in town. So It’s your
own fault. The co-op claims that it
does not make money on books. That
is not so. It does make money on
books. But it sells textbooks to
To the Editor:
Last week, in “Letters to the Ed
itor,” I noticed where the usual dig
nity of the feature was despoiled by
some cantankerous, chattering, In
significant ingredient of coeducation,
who, with the usual dauntless cour
age, flaring bravery, and staunch
moral fibre of her kind, sent in an
UNSIGNED letter! But then, you
can’t expect much from someone who
is ashamed of her name.
Obviously disgruntled because she
was classed in that category consist
ing of the few customary campus
wall-flowers who fail to rate a fra
ternity Homecoming bid, Bhe has
seen fit to disgorge insidious criti
cism concerning my non-malevolent
references to the University of Geor
gia co-eds.
After all, the reason that most co
eds are well-liked is because so few
of them are like her. Obviously, she
is to co-education what sand is to
spinach, what waiter’s thumbs are
to soup, and what cracker crumbs
are to a comfortable bed.
NORT SANDERS.
To the Editor:
Allow me to congratulate you on
having a genuine “sorehead” writing
for your paper in the person of one
students as cheaply as they could be
bought from an Athens merchant or
ordered from the publisher. Per
haps it even sells textbooks to stu
dents cheaper than they can buy
them in town. Certainly we have
no kick about book prices.
The Cracker, now defunct "hu
morous” magazine of the university,
once carried a cartoon showing a
masked bandit standing in front of
the co-op. Under the cartoon were
these words: "two of a kind.”
That wasn’t fair to the co-op, but
it represents the student attitude
towards our college book store.
• • »
I take my hat off to the co-op. It
is free from even the faintest breath
of corruption. It is run by a busi
ness woman who, I understand, Is
on a salary. It is supervised by a (
prominent member of the university
faculty. Money derived from the co
op goes. In one way or another,
into the university's coffers. There
is no graft, thank heaven, in the co
op.
The object of derision and hatred,
the co-op plods along under its own
steam. Various vitriolic attacks
have been made on that hallowed In
stitution by more or less righteously
Indignant students. The good old
co-op has managed to weather them
every year.
It would be a great favor, though,
if they would cut out that word
"Cooperative." It is totally un
necessary and superfluous.
Gulliver Swift who unquestionably
would be glad to know where that
money went. As though It would
do anyone a great deal of good to
know Just where it found its rest
ing place. Maybe it went to the Sal
vation army or to help relieve
the unemployment situation; who
knows? Moreover, who cares?
Didn’t we have a good time while It
was going though?
Mr. Swift seems to think that the
president of the Pan-Hellenic coun
cil could enlighten us. But why put
this president to the trouble of ex
plaining something that has been
going on for years and something
that all of us already know? The
Pan-Hellenic president provides good
entertainment for the student body
and sets a price. Then it is up to
them to take it or leave it. The
dances are not compulsory and sure
ly the president deserves something
for his work. And It is work to put
on a set of dances.
I wonder if Mr. Swift would ac
cept the job of president of the coun
cil if it were open to him. And then
would he put out some real work
just to see the students have a rol
licking week-end of good, whole
some fun. I am inclined to doubt It.
In fact the majority of male stu
dents at the university would be de
lighted to sponsor our week-end en
tertainment.
It is charged that it Is unfair to
the student body to allow one man
to charge a high tariff at the dances
and reap a profit. But someone has
to put on the dances and you can't
hire a good orchestra for a song.
Anyone acquainted with the booking
of orchestras knows that a good
band cannot bo secured from the
Music Corporation of America, where
our big ones are signed, for a week
end under $1,200. And then you've
got to lure over a thousand paid
admissions to the dance if you
charge only one dollar per head. I
That would be no simple task at the
university.
Maybe Mr. Swift has forgotten
about all the overhead and “dead
beats” connected with a dance. Or
Nominations Open
For Pandora Staff
Contestants for positions on the
Pundora staff met in the Pundora of
fice in the Commerce-Journalism
| building Tuesday at 4:30 p. m., ac
cording to W. G. Wells, Ft. Bennlng,
I editor.
The appointments on the staff
will be announced after the appli
cants have been nominated either
by the Pan-Hellenic council or the
campus leader. Students desiring to
try out for positions may still do so
by receiving a nomination from one
of these sources.
Mr. Wells stated that he would
be glad to furnish any information to
further the contestants. He added
that there are a few proofs that have
not been called for and that they
should be gotten as soon aB possible.
maybe he is Just a genius at econ
omy. At any rate he could pick up
some good pointers on dance pro
motion and use them nicely before
writing unnecessary articles In The
Rod and Black.
I sincerely hope that Mr. Swift
will find some of that money,
wherever It went. Then maybe he
will feel free to afford the next
group of dances sponsored by the
Pan-Hellenic council.
FRANK HAWKINS.
Sophomores at Queen university
cut the hair of freshmen who dis
obey the customs, such as staying
away from dances, wearing Robin
Hood hats, and so forth.
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