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THE RED AND BLACK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938.
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LETTERS
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Matter of the becond CIinn.
EDITOR
After
MIDNIGHT
THE
Campus
PARADE
Ol-AtniK Davidson
Editor
Boo McCuen
Managing Editor
John Rice
Itusincss Manager
J. Limit RukhKT.I.
A a Hill Editor
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Ki*».rNr I'llim.ii'h
Jack Maxwkm.
Jack Ksiii
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Harriott* Thompson
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Rcbttb Howkij.
Milton
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Copy rimk :ltlli Knurrs. Stanford Smith. T. I,. Wood Kill
Whits, Krne** y Hicks. Trod Wickham. Imrry Smith.
Reporters: I> I, McRae. Kill Morrell K n Newsom, Ilrucr
Wader. Julian IlnllMHirtnn, William Forehand
Sports: O'ponald Mays. Thomas II. Park, May Gray.
H nmt n Klonnor Mlllk-an, Charlotte Adams, Coy Johnson
wyl.nr Kijrlitnn. I.ntrolle Tift, Dot Daniels, Alice
•Merer, Virginia Kiuum. I,«.le I nnrd. May limy Julia
Griswold. Sarah Italinaen, Odrlla House, Peggy Pop.
|H T. Margaret linker, SiiHau Dillingham. Jeanette Wein-
Hteln, Pools Griffiths. I,aura Mae Itiinlen. Jean Parkin
aun. Ann Byrd Klror, Klalre June*.
Mulmerlption ltate—ft.INI per year.
Represented by National Advertising Service, Inc.
Mrmtier Associated t'ollestate Tress
Any Further Delay
IS UNNECESSARY
fi^IlERE has Iteeti another delay lit the meeting
1 formerly scheduled for this week for the con
sideration of the proposed Red and Black
*'heer leader selection phut, which includes women
cheer leaders. It is due to the President's depart
ure from the University on business.
Although realizing the necessity of Dr. Cald
well’s absence, It Is also well to realize that three
sand students anxiously await the outrome of
the committee meeting. The mooting should he
called no later than next Monday.
If this decision had been left up to the students
entirely, it would,have been made weeks ago, but
there must he u faculty approval of the measure.
The students feel about this delay ns the faculty
feeds about late reports and failure to report to
classes on time.
At the same time, however, the decision must ho
made Immediately. Regardless of whether the
answer be yes or no. It must he made now. The
students have worked hard and cooperated. They
deserve a quick decision.
Four-Day Holiday
HAILED BY STUDENTS
W ITH the declaration of u four-day holiday
for the Georgla-Georgla Tech week-end,
every force seems favorable to the great
est Homecoming (loorgta has ever had.
The coronation of the bulldog us the official mus-
cot of the team will he held before the game. After
an Investigation lust spring. It was found that
the bulldog as a name and mascot for the players,
was not official. It came to be known as such
through common usage. So It is titling that this
official recognition of the ferocious canine should
take place Just before Georgia's most exciting
game.
Georgia's first official homecoming was held
seventeen yours ago. No doubt several hundred
alumni returned. Rut during that time and the
present, many changes have occurred. Modern,
improved transportation facilities will bring, not
hundreds, hut thousands of alumni, friends and
supporters to the campus. The best will be offered
them.
Hut whether those returning he of the class of
■i»ti or '38, the spirit will be the same. They love
Georgia, Its traditions and background; they are
u part of Its living present! and It Is their desire
that they be part of its brilliant future. They're
all “Going Back.''
Let the Freshman
WOMEN DANCE
rpHB RED AND 1ILACK was criticized for Its
^ stand In advocating that freshmen women be
allowed to attend Homecoming dances. It
was not the purpose of the paper to make the Issue
personal and place the entire blame upon Mrs. Mc
Whorter for an objection that certainly could be
and ought to be removed If a policy of fairness Is
to be pursued. The reference to the dean of wo
men was made only for the reason that, since she
does represent the women students of the Univer
sity, she is in a sense the administration.
No existing rule of either the University or the
Women's Student Government forbids freshmen
women from attending Homecoming dances. It
remains simply that a precedent has grown upon
the Coordinate campus. There is no logical reason
why the precedent should be maintained. Definite
action un the matter remains to be taken. Dean
R. H. Powell of the Coordinate College, rather
than Mrs. McWhorter, will exercise jurisdiction in
the case, although In the last analysis, the decision
of President Caldwell will be supreme. A special
committee will meet with him to decide the ques
tion. •
in all justice, “Let the Freshmen Dance!"
Margaret Slaton Writes:
Editor, Red and Black;
Surprising as it seems, I find I
agree with much of the content of
your editorial headed "A Menace to I
Students” which appeared in last
week’s issue of The Red and Black.
Students’ violation of University reg-
| illations due to ignorance of these
regulations is one of the most serious
of the problems which come up in
the Deans' offices at the University.
However, your editorial implies that j
this ignorance is the fault of the Ad
ministration.
The Junior Division women this
year have been encouraged even
more than other students to famil
iarize themselves with University
regulations. Every student on the
Coordinate campus was provided with
a handbook of regulations. This
being the case, no student could
rightfully ask to he dealt with lightly
due to ignorance of regulations.
Most of the students live in dor
mitories and can he reached with
very little difficulty. Furthermore,
the Dean's office keeps a daily check
sheet showing whether each teacher
lias turned in his absences. It is
an exception rather than a rule that
teachers delay in turning in absences
at Coordinate. It Is because of this
ability to keep the records up to date
Ihnt teachers on the Coordinate cam
pus are not, and never liuve been,,
provided with lists of students on
probation. The office takes respon
sibility for notifying students of
their absences, and does notify them
before they are in danger of over-
cutting. In the case you cited in
your editorial the young woman in
question was sent the usual official
notice to come to tlie Dean's office
about her absences before she over-
cut in any subject. She ignored this
notice,—as I regret to say, she made
a practice of neglecting all notices
all last yoar. Shortly after she was
sent for and did not report she ex
ceeded the ulisence limit in two sub
jects. At that time she was sent a
very urgent personal note to come to
the office. She came, lint was able
to present no excuses for any of tier
absences. Consequently she was ad
vised that she could tio longer re
main In the University.
Allow me to say that regardless
of tile way this case appears to you
and to the friends of the student re
ferred to. she admitted frankly both
to me and to the Dean that she knew
site was on probation.
You are certainly mistaken in
taking the attitude tliut the Univer
sity had any desire to make an ex-
uniple of this or any other student.
This case was dealt with entirely in
accord with written University reg
ulations, and was an uttempt ut
nothing but to uphold the standards
of the University and to lie consist
ent in its treatment of students who
violate regulations, whether inten-
ionaily or otherwise.
If the opinion of the editor is the
opinion of the students, out of fair
ness to them und to the Administra
tion they should have tlie facts in
the case.
Verv truly yours,
MARGARET SLATON.
Fashion Flashes
lly Harriot to Thompson
Color is one of the most Interest
ing things about new fall clothes.
There is lots of it everywhere, en
hancing colors, capitivating colors.
Among the most popular are grape
wines, dark wines, rosy rusts, various
shades of green, and many varia
tions of violets. They may be a btt
debonair, hut their appearance
against a fall setting tends to add
new pep to campus life.
However, possibly the most talk
ed about fashion is the prevailing
hair styles. Up or down, which
shall It be? That is the vital ques
tion confronting hair-conscious la
dies. Many co-eds who are experi
encing the "upward movement” say
that it gives them new courage.
Others contend that it gives them
a wallflower complex.
While the spotlight is focused on
such a debatable subject let’s see
what men about the campus think
about the new hatr mode.
Says Wilson Still, campus leader,
"I feel the same way about hair
which is worn high as I do about
new hats, I think both of them are
crazy.”
Melvin Pollock, journalism stu
dent. on the other hand says. “I am
deflnitely in favor of the new hair
style; It represents a new spirit of
freedom."
Finally, to get the opinion of style
experts, let’s quote Vogue, who says
concerning hair worn high, "It's a
good scrap and we can see both sides
of it. We're all for It because it's
new and the greatest change these
same old faces have had in years.
With the Editor
After midnight is written this week by Eugene
Phillips. Regarded as one of the most enter
prising students on the Georgia Campus, Phil
lips is editor of the Georgia Arch, president of
Sigma Delta till, anil associate editor of The
Itisl and Black. Presenting, Eugene Phillips.
Musing of A Midnighter
Perhaps a more appropriate title for this col
umn would be*"At the Dawn. ”
No Red and Black editor before the present one
ever called his column “After Midnight," but few
of them ever got around to writing it before that
time; it’s somehow a tradition on the campus
weekly. There's something stimulating about the
sound a typewriter makes (even the ones here in
the office) in the early morning hours when all the
campus lies asleep, and worried young minds for
get the cares of college. There is also something
awe-inspiring about the dawn, when, as you see
the sun slowly climb from its bed beyond the
Oconee, you realize that another day is before you
—and you haven’t slept. Sometimes its hard to
appreciate the sunrise at such a moment.
For some of us, Wednesday night is not the only
evoning on which we burn the candle until the
tallow has melted all away. I’ve come to see a lot
of college at night, since I registered for that first
course in human biology back in the fall of 1935.
The course was soon completed, but not the mid
night vigil. And, as long as I’m a college student,
I suppose I'll keep it. Sleep is one item on my
daily schedule I gave up long ago .... even before
No-Sleep Marathons entered academic circles.
It is estimated that in the period of a four-year
sojourn in college a student Will forfeit some six
months of sleep. That is a conservative estimate:
I’m a year ahead now. Still, the privilege of writ
ing these random notes is not one that I regard
lightly. I'm happy to have been chosen to pinch-
hit for someone I know is ably representing the
nation's number-one college weekly at the Asso
ciated Collegiate Press convention in Cincinnati.
Nevertheless, I think the nice thing about dying
would he the thought that there’d be no more 8:30
classes to meet. Perhaps there is no rest for the
wicked, hut then, neither is there any for the
college editor.
Coordinate Organizers
Women students on the Coordinate College cam
pus are somewhat isolated from the maze of activ
ities that characterize the Franklin College scene,
yet they are not idle. This week in mass numbers
they met to organize, for the first time in the his
tory of co-education at the University, the non
sorority freshmen and sophomore women whose
interests heretofore have often been largely neg
lected. Any democratic form of government that
provides representation for the minority should cer
tainly look after the greater interests of the ma
jority.
It does not mean that there should be any fric
tion between the two groups: such a condition
would serve no purpose, and would only result in
misunderstandings which would impede the pro
gress girls on the Coordinate campus have consist
ently made over a long period of years. But there
are certain opportunities that are enjoyed by soror
ity members which naturally are denied those girls
who either through financial or other reasons are
not members of the organized groups. An organ
ization such as the one proposed this week would
take care of the non-sorority element. -
No more capable and outstanding a leader than
Charlotte Adams could have been selected from the
women of the sophomore class to lead the organiza
tion of the group. Her foresight in initiating the
movement, with the helpful asistance of Dean R. H.
Powell, is significant. Always interested in the
welfare of the freshman and sophomore women In
his care. Dean Powell has given his full support
to the plan for non-sorority organization. Campus
Leader Wilson Still was present at the first meet
ing, and offered wholeheartedly his support and
that of the GOP campus group
Whether or not Charlotte is selected by the nom
inating committee to head the permanent organiza
tion, Coordinate women would do well to vote for
h.er. Her qualifications speak for themselves.
Modern Halloween
With the passing of the "good old days,"
■ Halloween has come to be just another day in the
lives of most college students, but not so with
Sigma Chi fraternity and Alpha Chi Omega soror
ity. Beginning at the Sigma Chi house on Hill
street Monday night, an old-fashioned serenade
was staged down Milledge, stopping at all frater
nity and sorority houses, back along Lumpkin
across to the Ag Hill and Franklin College cam
puses. and then out Prince to Chase and return
to Hill. Before the four-mile trek ended, a fol
lowing of some 100 noisy students had been given
a thorough "work out."
An event that attracts much attention, from the
student body, is the Annual Stunt Night program,
which will be held Thursday night, Nov. 17, in the
Physical Education Building. Under the direction
of the Glee Club the Annual Stunt Night has
become an Athens classic, highly entertaining and
widely attended.
By Roddy Ratcliff
This week-end
finds the Bulldogs in Florida where
they will attempt to cave in Flor
ida's coal miners with the inch-long
names. Many of the Georgia stu
dents can probably be found in va
rious Jacksonville joints Saturday
night after the game. We should
have some good scandal from Florida
next week.
Joe Jacobus
seems to have forgotten all about
Lydia Holliday, his last year’s flame,
and is now turning all his attention
to Tri Delt’s Virginia Simerville and
Phi Mu's Marie Doss. Can it be that
the long standing McCall-Simerville
affair is definitely on the rocks?
Ned Millsap
the alleged power behind the throne
in Pan-Hellenic politics, is doing his
best to get the University’s sanction
for freshman women to attend the
Friday night Homecoming dance.
Chi O pledge Elsie Bacon will be by
his side in the Pan-Hellenic lead out,
if this move goes through . Per
sonally, Uncle Roddy himself hopes
the Coordinate big wigs will see fit
to let the frosh attend, as he would
like to lake one of this year’s year
ling crop—the upper class gals know
him too well.
Congratulations
to Knox Eldredge on his refusal to
play ”D. M.” any longer to a certain
pint-sized Phi Mu brunette. While
Knox shows interest in Toni Sum
mers, Eason runs around with E. D.
Martin. Could this possibly mean
the beginning of the end? We doubt
it.
Another couple
who have decided to engage in a lit
tle “extra curricular" work is Harry
Clark and Augusta Howard. Gussie
dates Ben Pate during the past week
end. while Clark can’t wait to grab
up Harriet Burke, Agnes White, of
the White millions, and several oth
ers. Howard still has Harry’s pin,
howevor, and maybe variety is all
these two are seeking.
Nina Puller,
who hasn’t broken into print for
some time, confesses an extreme lik
ing for Blanton Fortson, while Pan
dora Head Floyd Newton's private
secretary is Sally Benson, who, be
lieve it or not, hails from wild and
wooly Jacksonville.
Howell Hollis
and Donna Lynn put on a big break
up act on the average of once a
week, but always manage to smooth
things over. Baby Ann Wade and
Sonny Swift get along much better,
while George Stallings seems to be
the top man with Emily Beck. Guess
that covers the S. A. E.-Phi Mu al
liance for this week.
Eleanor Millirun
drops her Petticoat Parade this week
to turn all her attention to K. A.’s
Bill White. Weetie Tift takes up
where Millie left off. Love has finally
come to Sports Editor Jack Reid,
who is pulling every available string
to import Mackey King from Colum
bia, S. C„ for the Homecoming
brawls.
Our bosses,
Claude Davidson and Bob McCuen,
are in Cincinnati sipping good old-
fashioned German beer by now, so
maybe we can get away with mention
of Claude’s love for Frances Mercer.
This is another long-enduring affair.
Frances Richardson
has a special place at the Pi K. A.’s
dining table besides the pres, on
every Sabbath. When the high mas
ter turns his head, she lifts her eye
lashes to lad on the left. Continua
tion from last month . . . Lawrence
Smith is still trying to get a date
with Jean Ross. What strings has
Elizabeth Maddox on Tom Clarey’s
jalopy?
Number 3
romance of Klalre Jones ended on
a steak-fry last Saturday night ....
We know another who knows her
telephone number .... Arch's cover
girl for next month's issue. Dot
Bailey, just brushed aside three more
. . . . We wonder what happened to
the Power-ful Maddux-Firor affair?
Well, that about finishes us up for
this week We'll be seeing you in
Jacksonville's Green Derby under
the table nearest the door. Behave
yourselves, and don't let those Bay
St. Bars floor you while visiting the
Sunshine State this week-end.