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A Fearless Stand
N Ag Hill Dean Thomas .1 Jones. whose
respect we hold without peer, today opened
fire on the fivemember Georgiu State Hoard
of Examiner*
Dean Jones is charging that the hoard is un
fair and has installed trieky examinations for
(tradnates and prospective veterinarians whieh
is driving them to practiee in other states.
(lovemor Talinadge intervened in the dispute
between Dean Jones and the hoard, declaring
he believes graduates could pass a “reasonable”
examination.
D has been brought to The Red and Black’s
attention that on one occasion the board, exam
ining a hopeful licensee, asked such dubious
ipiestions as this:
“What are the dominant hatching periods of
the guinea hen and chickensT“
Dean Jones contends that such ipiestions are
trieky and that lie does not teach his students
such trivial facts lie feels that the board should
revamp its licensing practices, using broader,
more specific questions.
If the accusations hold true, there is no doubt
that the School of Veterinary Medicine's pres
tige will suffer through the contended negli
gence of the board
Dean Jones has cited “pressure” methods
that certain board members are using in an
attempt at personal gain.
Last year 17 out of 45 graduates examined
by the (leorgia board failed one or more of 11st-
seven exams given before licenses are granted.
Those who failed the board went to other
states, according to statistics in Dean Jones’
office, and the state suffered the loss of men
drilled in medical skill that is becoming more
sod more essential to the expansion of the live
stock industry.
Hut of more than 111 board examinees this
year, only 21 passed Five graduates that flunk
ed the Georgia quiz. Inter successfully completed
examinations in Florida And tin* Florida board
is considered the stiffen! in the southeast. Geor
gia's loss was Florida's gain.
We admire Dean Jones’ fearless stand in pro
teeting his students An investigation is in or
der
It s About Time
I1KN Rock College was built in l>’i!t, it
a .i' designed t > house freaht and
sophomore classes of the I'liiversity Hut
it soon became evident that the plan would
fail. The students stated that they would rather
stay at home than live there.
That “unwanted" building is now called Gil
mer Hall and. carrying out its original purpose,
still houses freshman ami sophomore women
Now. after almost i 100 years, the plan seems
to have fallen through The president said this
week that Coordinate Campus would be aban
doned next year and the women housed on Main
Campus in the new Myers Hall
And. we might add. it's about time. It costs
a lot of money to maintain the separate facili
ties now being used, and it's moijey that could
better be spent in other areas.
The lied ami Black heartily favors the idea
of moving freshman women to Main Campus,
and believes this will result in a richer fulfill
ment of college ideals for them
Situation Improved
»tMI1NGS arc looking up for The Red and
* Black Financially, the paper is now run
ning in the black. We think this is due, in part,
to the realization on the part of advertisers
that this publication is a good advertising med
ium.
It wu» gratifying, to say the least, the way
order* for space came in from businesses all
over the state The orders were handled on a
first-come-first-served basis As a result some
local as well as out-of-tow n merchants were de
nied the space they wanted.
Thia is regretable. of course, and The Red
and Black takes this method of thanking the
advertisers you sec represented jn this issue,
and assuring the others that their orders will
be handled at the earliest possible date
Chuck Martin
Consider the Freshmen
Consider for a moment the plight of the poor freshman. Since his
junior year in high school lie has been swamped with a veritable flood
of propaganda from various units of the I'niversity, extolling the vir
tues of the nation's oldest state chartered university.
He Is terribly Impressed Flatter-
Init photographs of stately I'niversity
buildings come In every mall. Glow
ing prose describes the beauty of the
campus Much Is made of the fact
that Old College is patterned after a
similar building at Vale Social life
here is without peer.
And so the entering Journalism
freshman comes armed with shiny
new portable type
writer. Grand-
mother gives the
art major a new
set of brushes and
paints. The busi
ness major sub
scribes to Fortune
and Nation's busi
ness. He bundles
up his Sunday best
and trudges off to
college. He Is, what
up.
The scene changes now and we are
following, unobserved, the youthful
student as he takes hts first tour
of the campus. He sees fewer students
than lie had expected. He had been
told by officials that the enrollment
drop was due to a changeover in
high schools from an eleven to a
twelve year program. Hut he also re
calls that this is the third year this
excuse has been used. He Is puzzled.
He passes the Arch and Is given a
magazine called the Fraternity Way
which declares that fraternity life Is
the way to get most out of college.
He strolls past the Chapel and la
given a pamphlet which graphically
Illustrates that anybody who is any
body is a GOP man. He scratches
his head In bewilderment
lie enters staid old Demosthenian
Hall and takes a back seat. But he
has forgotten hts copy of Roberts
Rules of Order and is lost in the
complicated debate. Maybe Phi Kap
pa would be better. But In those
hallowed halls he finds subjects again
being discussed In glittering generall- ,
ties. What is this, he thinks.
Disillusioned, he walks on up the
campus and stands awe-struck at the
yawning chasm that is to be the new
$2,000,000 library. Magnificent, he
thinks, until a bystander tells him
that the chasm has been yawning for
a long time and that work on the
edifice is all hut at a standstill. Not
understanding, he blinks his eyes and
walks on.'
One of the bulletins he has receiv
ed said something about a modern
printing plant going up behind the
C-J Building. He decides to investi
gate. Can this tie the site, he thinks,
as he views the gaping hole in the
ground, grass growing in the hole
testifying to the fact that work—
for the moment at least—has been
abandoned.
He shrugs his shoulders and walks
to his car. After being pushed out of
the mud hy friendly students, he
motors to his dormitory which is the
musty, cavernous, Joe Brown. In his
mailbox is a card informing him that
"due to technical difficulties" he
must stand again in a line to have
his II) picture remade. He sighs.
Tired and confused, he retires to
hiH room, climbs wearily into bed and
thinks. And to himself he says. “May
be—as the man says—I shoulda stood
in lied ”
we say. hepped
Pall Burnabust
Pali's Rules of Conduct
I’niversity, freshmen. Imt naturally
helpful hints. I’all lias kindly con-
a few of these hints the easy way. knowing that
you who don’t listen, will sooner or later find
It ain't a had life here at the
you have Rot to keep in mind a few
seated to let you in oi
the more stubborn of
out the bard way.
It is with the utmost seriousness,
that Pull lists hts own 10 command
ments.
1. Thou shall not raxz the older
remaining veterans about being old
and luild. for if thou doeth. they wilt
become angry and cuuseth thee to
lose much sleep.
2 Thou shall not sit on thy hunds
lit u football game und refuse to
wuveth thy rat cap. for to do this is
lo defy thAithletic department which
reigneth Supreme.
.1. Thou shalt not drinketh the
coffee in the Co-op. for if thou doeth.
thou will die or wish thou would.
4 Thou shalt not wear more than
three puirs of sox per week, for
that is ull the laundry can handle
ami still tnuketh a killing.
5 Thou shalt not refuse to recog
nize the wheels on the 'campus, for
if thou doeth. thou will he recog
nized us the scum of the earth, and
cot fit to exist.
ti. Thou shalt
not miss literary
societies' meet
ings. for if thou
doeth. thy par
ticular "party”
will not be able
to hold its clique,
and will make
thy life unpleas
ant.
7. Thou shall
not enter the
"exit" gate at
the reserve li
brary, for if thou
doeth, the librarian will scream
jgt thee, and scare thee into a fit.
8. Thou shalt not walk under the
arch, for if thou doeth. upperclass
men will turn thee over to sopho
mores, who liketh not freshmen
9. Thou shalt uot sa.ts the football
players, for if thou doeth. it wilt be
the last time thou sasseth anyone.
10. Thou shalt not cut classes to
extreme, for if thou doeth. "Wild
Bill" wilt detain thee, and causeth
thee to weep and wall.
Chick Martin
Editor
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Scales and Bones
People who think they can tell the age of any
thing hy its teeth are kind of up against it when
it comes to fish.
Not that some fish are not well stocked with
Hnappern as anyone who has lost knuckle hide on
a creek bank can testify. But teeth don’t help.
With fish, it's scales that tell the story. Not
the same scales that tattle on plump dowagers.
With fish the telltale scales are those along the
side just below the dorsal fin.
Any inquiry into a fish's tender years must
necessarily come under the heading of enteitain-
nient. because most of us don't have the^measuring
or magnifying tools to get really scientific.
All this business of diciphering the age of a
trout or a stumpknocker came into the limelight
in a conversation with a professor the other day.
From what he told me. you can have extra fun
with your own catches the next time you wet your
pole in the Oconee.
Merely a pocket sun-glass, revealed the college
prof, will hold forth much help
in telling the age of your catch.
Here's the general idea: Sep
arate a scale and hold it up to
the light. Then put your pocket
lens on it if you can. Notice that
the scale is marked with rough
circles—something like a tree
stump.
Then notice that the circles
show irregular breaks, or sep
arations. Those breaks are the
year-marks that biologists call
annuli. You can count them like
the growth rings on a tree.
• • * • •
With unparalied interest we will watch for
developments of an excavation proposed by the
anthropology-archaeology department. Dr. A. R.
Kelly, sultan of yesteryear lore about races that
are now extinct, has dug up a bone in Southwest
Georgia that is claimed to he part of the skeleton
of a monstrous prehistoric man.
Preliminary exploiting what he and two Johns
Hopkins University scientists called an "accidental
discovery," they have unearthed artifacts they
claim pushes back scientific knowledge of human
antiquity in the New World at least 70.000 years.
Neolithic tools were found ill one soil stratum
shove that in which Old Stone Age tools were dis-
cov'ered. indicating the Georgia camping ground
was used by men of successive periods over tens
of thousands of years.
We can’t keep ourselves from being overly In
trigued liy this projeet. After all. it would lie In
teresting to learn what our great-great-great-great
(et ail grandfather looked like.
The Editor's Mail
Parking Course Wanted
Fditor. The Red and Black:
To nim up the parking situation In one word—
wow
Yes. I am one of the so-called members of the
tribe of the rich and upper class of the Bchool. I
ow n a car. And to own a car at the University of
Georgia is not easy.
We have a wonderful old man here called “Pop "
He is the cop of the school. Everyone loves him
and can always picture him In his blue suit, the
old familiar pipe in his mouth. Age—about 500.
White tickets hang from his pockets, just waiting
to decorate some poor student's car.
It is really a feat to find a parking place in this
school. A few of my auto-owning friends are think
ing of asking Dean Tate if we could have an extra
course here called "Parking 101.” It would make
a nice five hour course, and in tt, we could learn
how to heat our friends to s parking space, or how
to park on one side of the campus and tradge to
the other side to class.
Why can't we have something done? There is
hardly any room for a man with a car to park.
One solution is either give us a place to park
near our classes or do away with the tickets. I.
for one. find myself thinking more in class about
whether I am going to get a ticket than I am
about the tecture.
Please help us ip some way—we mean no harm.
JF.RRY FIELDS
Price of Education?
Editor. The Red and Black
For several years I have been listening to a
great deal of discussion about the University Book
Store, without realizing how true it could be.
Several days ago I purchased "How To Increase
Sales Through Better Media Selection." a booklet
hy Arthur Hurd. The Book Store price was 50 cents.
On the back page an advertisement stales that you
can purchase any number you desire for 25 cents.
What price higher education?
DISGUSTED STUDENT