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Entered m the offlrv »t Allien., (in,
nM Moron «t - liihh mu11 matter.
A l,m:n I aui SMITH Editor In Chief
( HAH I.KM KEY.NOI.HM MaiiiikIiik Editor
l-'mnk Hawkins Associate Editor
e. t. inn (mandate Editor
Mli'iln-lI, .Minvliini Woman's Editor
Hunter William. Sport* Editor
ItKHliKTEKM Snin Meyers, Tom llo-
aler. Hurry llumrlek, .1 |t, Whelehel.
I.uelle Mltebrll. Kllialiell, Trlinlde. Ilufli
I’ark. Itohert I la vtl, Jnmes It (old,. Jr.,
•lame. Hrown, and William lliiehanan
III MIN EMM DKI'AHTMKNT
('(iMHTttX II IIAKEH Business Mann g er
Enink l.n- An.i llnalneaa Manager
Allierl I'aoo I'lrrulallon Manager
Kewl. Higgins A.at. Clrrulatlon Manager
Fraternity ItiihIiin^r
accept If they had more time.
The system la a laughable farce,
aa even the leaa Intelligent
freshmen realize.
The lied and Black propoaea
that the I’an-Hellenlc council
and the admlniatratlon puna
rules restraining fraternities
from doing any pledging until
ufter the Christmas holidays.
The sororities are trying this
rule at the present time and so
far it has worked well. We be
lieve that this plan will be much
better than the hit-or-miss
methods now employed. Uthers
may disagree; that la their in
alienable right.
Such a plan as ours would
have many advantages. The
men pledged by the fraterni
ties would be more carefully
chosen, and too, men who were
unnoticed during the hectic
rushing period, would, on their
own merit, be recognized. Given
a period of three months in
which to think things over the
(■reeks would choose men more
congenial than they sometimes
do under the present system.
The foundation of the frater
nity is harmonious association
among its members and this
harmony would be furthered by
a careful selection of new men.
TVT * l) W *li»l the fraternities are
all through with their
rushing und there cun be
1,0 lu Kltlmuto cry of "dog in the
manger," The Ited und Illuek
cun go ahead witli ita cherished
criticism of die rushing system
us it is ut the university.
Hushing us practiced by fra
ternities at the University of
(ieorgiu would he laughable
were it uot so trugic. For the
hist ten days of school frater
nity men go uround with Tulse
fronts und their best foot for-
wurd while they endeavor to
enl ice Severn I hundred green
und Ignorant freshmen into
their ranks. During those ten
’lays the fraternity houses are
strange places to men who liuve
visited them during different
times in the year. The house
hus a aplc and span look und In
general is u model fraternity
house for the rushing period.
There ure any number of au
tomobiles parked in front of
the houses, uutomobiles that
Will be tuken home to "the
family" ufter rushing. The up
perclassmen take freshmen to
picture shows. The best bll-
Hurd players in school lose to
callow freshmen who have hurd-
ly shot pool before. The boys
show n, t , freshmen uround the
town, take them out to supper.
In fact spend u lot of money
trying to prove to them Just
how wonderful it would he to
become u member of their fra
ternity.
And then comes the antl-
cllmux. The freshmen pledge
und soon wuke up to And that
all wus not us it seemed. The
automobiles disappear. The
houses resume their usual dis
heveled appearance, and the
freshmen start losing at billiards
at u rate that astounds them.
In other words, the musk is off.
Such u rushing system as ours
Is unfair to all parties con
cerned. It is UIlfHlr to , he
freshmen because It quite often
rushes them into pledging them
selves to Join fraternities they
would not become affiliated with
if they had more time to think
things over. It is unfair to the
fraternities because they very
often take men they wouldn't
The proposed system would
prevent injustice to freshmen.
They will be more careful in
their selection of fraternities.
Ily thut we mean that they will
be more likely to select the
group with which they would
like to he affiliated during the
four years of their college life.
Tile lied und Iilack believes
thut the proposed plan would
offer manifold advantages, the
chief of which have been given.
We submit our plan to the
Pan-Hellenic council and the
administration, not in any spirit
of criticism of fraternities In
general, but with the belief that
our suggestions will be of vulue
to (ieorgiu (ireeks.
11ios«‘ I n—liman Ittil«-ts
I K tlie class of 1936 thinks for
a minute that it is going to
trample every hullowed Geor-
gia tradition in the dust with
out serious consequences result
ing, then it is due fur a rather
rude awakening.
Out of u male freshman reg
istration of approximately 300,
leas than 150 have purchased
the freshman cups prescribed
by student regulations. Fresh-
tnun caps are compulsory for
the lirst term of school and they
must be worn. Freshmen are
absolutely forbidden to walk
under the arch ut the entrance
to the campus, yet they do so
by the scores. Freshmen are
forbidden to attend dances dur
ing the first two terms, yet
many a freshman paid his dol
lar at the university dances last
week-end.
Hazing went out at the uni
versity several years ago, but
freshmen may still be subject
to discipline. Student leaders
have been discussing various
plans for freshman discipline
(luring the past year and the
superior airs adopted by this
year's freshmen should give Im
petus to the move. It is a mat
ter of tradition to say that every
freshman class is the worst yet,
but the present one seems to
Justify such a tirade in so far
as the obeying of "rat" rules is
concerned. Blue Key and "X"
club should stop quibbling over
Why Not Cheer?
T'l' is with saddened hearts that
I we look back over the dis
astrous V. P. I. game and
remember the manner in which
our cheering section and our
cheer leaders disported them
selves during the game which
the Bulldogs lost to the Vir
ginians. The (Ieorgiu spirit
must indeed be on the wane
when the cheering sections can’t
be clearly heard forty yards
away and the cheer leaders do
everything but the right thing.
After the game various mem
bers of the student body ap
proached the editor and asked
him to write an editorial on the
had showing of the cheer lead
ers, whom they said were
"atrocious.” Then came the
cheer leaders with requests that
we write an editorial chiding
the student body for its lack of
pep and cooperation Saturday.
This is merely another laugh
able instance of the pot calling
the kettle black.
(jeorgia has but two more
home games on its schedule and
if the Bulldog cheering sections
can't do any better than they
did last Saturday the editor,
along with many other ardent
(leorgia men, will be deeply
chagrined, humiliated, broken
down, etc. We would like to
suggest that the cheer leaders
get together and formulate a
program to be followed at the
North Carolina and Florida
games. We might add that It
would be a good thing if they
would get rid of their self-con
sciousness and put themselves
into their tasks with no idea
in their heads that they are the
cynosure of all eyes.
To the student cheering sec
tion our message is to throw
themselves into the joyous job
of cheering our Alma Mater on
to victory. Don't do the thing
half-heartedly. And, freshmen,
when you wave those "rat"
caps wave them as though the
future of the university or the
world depended on your action.
For the oft-censured univer
sity band The lied and Black
has no brickbats. We realize
that the boys had hut one week
In which to practice their music
and formations for the between-
the-halves march. Their last
week's regalia perhaps didn't
do credit to the university but
we find it easy to forgive them
I for not wearing those decrepit
| uniforms of past years.
Win or lose, (Ieorgiu men
always stand behind their foot
ball team. The least students
can do is to get up and cheer
with all their might when their
team is fighting off an invader.
If you carry your girl along,
don’t be sophisticated and be
come a great big, strong silent
he-man. Make her cheer too.
details und submit their plans
to university authorities. The
administration, we believe, will
back every move on the part
of student leaders to subject
our yearlings to proper super
vision.
There is no stigma attached to
wearing a freshman cap. at least
not at (leorgia. The editor,
along with other members of
his class, was proud to do so.
Unless the class of 1936 begins
wearing Its caps and obeying
freshman regulations It is lia
ble to more serious discipline.
On your own heads be it, fresh
men.
From the Editor's Desk >*-
Liberal ideas seem to have a hard
time getting a start in the South,
judging from the recent objection
on the part of a hundred of North
I Carolina’s "outstanding" citizens to
1 the liberalism of the University of
North Carolina, where, it seems, pro-
j fessors have admitted that socialism,
c ommunlsm, and other Isms have
i heir good sides. The citizens ob
jected also to the speaking at the
j university of such men as Bertrand
Russell.
The University of North Carolina
i is one of the South's greatest uni
versities. Even Duke, with all of
its tobacco millions, cannot surpass
the university which Walter Hines
Page and other North Carolinians
started on its way. North Carolina
is widely recognized over the coun
try as one of the nation's best insti
tutions of higher learning. Yet a
group of reactionaries are trying to
tear it down. Few persons intimate
ly acquainted with American colleges
have any fear of radical tendencies
on the part of students.
American college students should
know something about the political
experiments of other nations, for
when we become men many of us
will help run our government.
America is irrevocably connected
with the other nations of the world
end an intelligent understanding of
those nations and their forms of gov
ernment is a necessity if we are to
conduct our government along intel
ligent lines. There has been too
much ignorance and blundering on
the part of American politicians in
the past.
The editor views with alarm the
tendency on the part of the fresh
man class to violate all of Georgia's
traditions. I would not have you
believe for the world that I am one
of those who get a great deal of
pleasure out of warming the seat of
e freshman’s pants. When I was a
freshman I was paddled only once
and then only with my consent and
more in a spirit of fun. Paddling
a freshman seems to me to be the
heighth of asininity.
The problem goes deeper than
mere pants warming. Freshmen at
the university have never really been
subjected to any discipline. They
are allowed to do as they please the
whole year, subject only to univer
sity regulations and then only when
they get caught, which is seldom.
I believe it esential that freshmen be
subjected to supervision and dis
cipline on the part of the administra
tion and the more intelligent and
capable of the upperclasmen.
It is with great interest that the
editor waits to see what recommenda
tions Blue Key and the "X" club
will make to the administration.
Among the many things which the
editor of a college newspaper gets
in his postoffice box are the ex
changes from other schools. Some
of them are very interesting, es
pecially the humorous columns.
Some of these humorous columns
are conducted by America's future
great laugh producers. One writer in
particular seems bound for fame.
Writing in the Auburn Plainsman
under the nom de plume of “Gum,”
he complains about running a mile to
see a fire the other night and being
greatly disappointed on his arrival
at the scene of the disaster to dis
cover that it was only a barn, when
the least he'd hoped for was a two-
storied house.
He continues philosophically, how
ever, by commenting that the fire
reminded him of some women. A
lot of women, "Gum” said, think
that they are great big flames when
they are really only little brush fires
with almost invisible tvisps of smoke.
It would be interesting to learn of
I the Auburn co-eds’ reaction to that
I statement.
-*0- Leroy’s Letters
Athens, Ga.
D EAR Family; I guess It is the
weather, or it may be those
oysters, but I do not feel so
good. I am in a very sad mood,
and feel kind of homesick, which is
not the way for a sophomore to feel,
but is more like a freshman who
has not ever been away from home
before.
I am very much discouraged at
the freshmen, who do not seem to
know yet what it is all about, and
seem to kind of feel like they are
In charge or something. I guess they
have reason to act like that though
for they have Just been rushed by
the fraternities, and when I was
being rushed, and for a little while
after that, I thought I was in charge
too. I found right after I put the
button on that I was Just another
freshman, and got my pants warmed
a great deal, which was a very se
vere blow to my pride.
Getting your pants warmed is
very good for a freshman, for it
makes him realize that he is not
head man. and that he does not know
nearly so much as he thought he did.
I thought when I was a freshman
that I would enjoy it very much
when I was a sophomore and could
spank somebody with a paddle my
self, but I do not enjoy it like I
thought I would, for I remember
that most of the mistakes that made
me get a licking were because I was
very ignorant, and I feel kind of
like that most of these freshmen
just don’t know any better either.
I guess one reason I am so sad
is that I have just been to one of
the sorority functions where they
entertain all the little freshmen
girls that they are trying to pledge,
and since I am good friends with
some of the old members I had to
dance with a lot of mooses, which is
what the boys call girls that are
not very pretty. I do not mind
though because I have found that a
lot of girls who are not very pretty
have got more sense than the pretty
ones, and can understand your wise
cracks better.
Also there is a little freshman here
who I liked very much, and have
given her a lot of advice about
school and everything. I have given
her so much advice that she is be
ginning to treat me kind of like I
was her grandfather or somebody,
and is not any fun when a girl you
like thinks you are her grandfather.
That has also made me very sad.
The football team makes me sad
too, for I think that most of the
men would do better if they confined
their athletics to tea dances and
things like that, where there is not
any danger of getting hurt. Except
that most of the dances recently
have been so crowded that It was
more dangerous than the scrimmages
I have seen.
I will have to close now and get
some Sleep for It is getting very
hard to get much sleep in class any
more. Love,
LEROY.