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High Tariff
pATRICE Munsel, one of the Metropolitan’s
brighest young stars, will present a concert
in Fine Arts next week. And if last year’s at
tendance figures at similar concerts are any
yardstick, there will be only a score or so stu
dents there. Of course, we hope the auditorium
is jammed, but we doubt if it will be.
The fact that Miss Munsel has recently re
corded some songs with Vaughn Monroe may
help boost student attendance somewhat, but
the number who will go to the concert will fall
far short of the number who should go.
The music department is perturbed. And so
are the people responsible for the concerts.
Some of them cannot understand why student
attendance is so low. But we think it is simply
because the tariff is too high, and not because
students do not care for things cultural.
Witness the Fine Arts movies on Sunday
afternoon. Great numbers of the films are of
foreign vintage, and all of them are cultural
in nature. Yet the students flock to them. You
sec, they are free.
It is true that tickets for concerts here are
cheaper than those for privately sponsored con
certs, but there are so many other diversions
to be found that most students balk at plunk
ing down a buck or so for a single show.
The situation that exists creates much bad
publicity for the University. We are thinking
particularly of the Helen Traubel concert last
year. There were ubout 26 students there. Miss
Traubel had just come from the University of
Alabama where she sang to a capacity audience
of students, and the poor attendance here is
said to have disappointed her no end.
If she had sung at Clemson College she again
would have had a packed house, because there,
as in many other schools, the concert is “free.”
That is, part of the tuition is earmarked for
the concerts. Students are admitted with only
their ID cards for tickets.
If the University officials want more stu
dents to attend the concerts, we suggest they
give serious thought to fully subsidizing the
series when the budget is made out.
anb ffilatfe
Chuck Martin
Student Council Grows
The youthful and hitherto untried student council is making cam
pus politicians and University administrators sit up and take a second
look.
The self-same people who declar
ed for years that a student council
would never work here may see this
year produce a council that will be
the greatest single force for campuB
unity ever seen at the University.
For as long as oven Pall Burna-
bust can remember, the two main
political parties here—IFC and
OOP—have been at each other’s
throats, and have apparently been
proud of it.
But at a student council meeting
this week, the two parties threw
petty grudges aside
and made the
brightest political
news since the in
vention of the vot
ing machine.
On one issue, the
council proved that
it was not a rubber
stamp for the University administra
tion. It seems that a high-ranking
official came before the council with
a "new kind" of diploma that had
been order for graduates next June.
He came apparently for the purpose
of getting the council's O.K. on the
new sheepskins.
He explained that parchment—
on which diplomas have been en
graved In Latin in the past—is get
ting scarce. Next June, he said.
Veterinary, Law and Pharmacy
graduates would get parchment di
plomas and everybody else would get
regular paper certificates, with the
letters printed—not engraved—in
English.
Those who saw the new diploma
described it as “very cheap" in
quality, and not the kind of diploma
one might expect to be awarded by
the nation’s oldest state chartered
university. The council balked.
But that was not the only point
on which they balked. The council
wunted to know why certain pro
fessional groups would be awarded
beautiful parchment diplomas and
others given only cheap ones. Tho7
advised the University to take the
matter under more careful advise
ment.
The bright political note came
when the council began a considera
tion of the many, many activities in
which freshmen are urged to partici
pate, but cannot participate in with
out endangering their academic work.
A OOP member of the council in
troduced a resolution asking the In-
'er-Fraternity and Pan-Hellenic
councils to postpone rush week un
til well into the quarter, or even un
til winter quarter.
It would be a move that most Uni
versity administrators and faculty
counselors have been privately en
dorsing for a long time. It would give
freshmen more time to learn the
campus and how it lives. It would
give fraternities more time to select
the people they wanted. It would
give the freshmen more time to de
cide which group they wanted to
Join—If, by that time, they wanted
to join at all.
But here is the surprising develop
ment. Although the student council
is composed roughly of two-thirds
fraternity members and one-third
non-fraternity members, the OOP
man's resolution was adopted unani
mously.
It was adopted not because of any
party politics involved, but because
it was founded on sound reasoning.
This is the sort of inter-party co
operation this campus has needed for
a long time.
The budding student council does
not, under Its present charter, have
any administrative power. But with
more of this kind of clear thinking
the organization will prove that It
is capable of administering student
affairs.
Lighting the Way
Pall Burnabust
npOMORROW night, the student cheering
lection at the Maryland game will have an
opportunity to show that school spirit still
exists at the University. Many people suspect
that it is dead.
Two years ago, the Bulldog Club tried every
trick in the hook to organize card stunts dur-
ing home games. They went to much expense
buying cards and printing instructions. They
spent many hours in planning and*rehearsing.
Came the day of the hig game and halftime,
when the stunts were to be performed Many
students thought so little of the idea that they
hurled their cards through the air and onto the
playing field. As a result the stunts were a
total failure.
Tomorrow night, it will be candles instead of
cards. Every student who sits in the section
designated for the stunts will have an oppor
tunity to help revive some of our lost spirit—
or stamp it further into oblivion.
The Milledge Muddle
DID1NG down Milledge Ave. some night
about six o’clock, one cannot help wonder
ing why more accidents do not happen along
fraternity row.
Rows upon rows of cars are parked on both
sides of the street, slowing and hampering the
normal flow of traffic.
Last week, it did happen. The street was
•rowded with parked cars. In the stream of
traffic, one car side-swiped another. Luckily,
no one hurt, both cars damaged.
The Red and Black wonders if the sorority
and fraternity houses do not provide parking
space behind or adjacent to their houses. It
seems to us such space could be put to good
use.
It’s a good thing that the elusive Mauldin Brothers and companions
have been recaptured. Also it is indeed fortunate that John Dillinger,
Alvin Karpis, the Pig Woman, Gyp the Blood, and Ma Barker have
passed on to their pyrotechnic reward.
Tho reason for all' this law and
order thanksgiving stems from the
issuance of ID cards to the student
body last week. Nowhere short of a
country post office could one find a
more convincing collection of the
urch-crimlnal archetype.
Serving to villify rather than
identify, the little pieces of plastic
were observed to
P rec lpltate s e v-
oral incidents
around the can-
pus following
distribution. One
lad was caught
ripping a page
from a rare copy
of beowulf con
taining a portrait
of Beast Grlndl.
He explained that
he planned to paste this on top of
his present contorted likeness.
The library has been disrupted
several times when well meaning
students have displayed their plas
tic pulse-stoppers to check out a
book. One girl fleeing down the
main library steps was stopped by
a crowd puzzled at her tears. With
an explanation and encore of exhi
bitionism she showed them the ID
card. Stark horror blanched the faces
of all, with people scurrying behind
magnolias, hydrangeas and passing
coeds. Books and one football player
lay scattered upon the sod.
Often while combing copy pencils
out of his hair, Pall has had occa
sion to reflect on the chiseled
countenance below. Scarce has it been
accepted as perfect, but never was
it thought capable of such depicted
depravity^
TTiT - "cannotremember any stooges
standing by and nudging with prun
ing hooks, or any demons slowly
lowering hts aged grandmother into
a vat of steaming whale oil as they
snapped the thing. But twisted fea
tures snarled from within their plas
tic prison as if to say, "You are
wrong old man, I am the true you."
The reason for holding night foot
ball games now becomes plain. If
one foregoes checking books out,
cashing checks and otherwise lend
ing credence to the traversty on
photography, the school year may
pass without incident.
Chvck Marti*
Editor
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More Like It
Editor, The Red and Black:
Noted your keynote editorial in last issue di
rected toward bus conversations. Follows what
.is more likely to be heard:
“Hey there, cupcake, where have you been hid
ing around the campus?” begins the masculine
element.
“Oh, I haven’t been hiding but I do spend a
lot of time in the various libraries reading up on
ferorld affairs of import. Incidentally, don’t yon
think that the New York Times presents the ship
departures in an attractive format?"
“Uh-yeh. Say, who you pickin’ on your parley
this week?”
“Parlez what? Oh, parley, you mean those syn
dicated gaming cards in which the gross recidivates
to the entrepreneur of the entire scheme in ad
vent of equivolency of composition, that 1b, in case
of ties, you lose. Also, the Mulrooney Thornton
subclause in the Interstate Commerce Act of 1918
prohibits their crossing state lines by common
carrier.”
“Well, common or not, I’m glvln’ Maryland and
six if you want some of it. Say dumpling, yon
make me turn to Jello inside when I look at those
big blue eyes."
“How unique! By the way, did you know that
that type of dessert is no longer being manufac
tured from the gelatinous portions of bovine and
equine extremities, but is now being derived from
the residue of dye intermediates?”
“You coulda sure fooled me. Boy could I go
for a brew.”
"I manage to abstain from such malt excess due
to the adipose tissue that would soon engirdle me.’’
“Jeez, she’s wearin’ a girdle! Call out the com
bat engineers. Well, I’ll see you around the cam
pus, creampuff. Don’t take any wooden frat pins."
“Oh, Is that the manner in which they are being
made nowadays ...”
AN ATLANTA TO ATHENS BUS RIDER
It Occurs Again
Editor. The Red and Black:
I read with much interest Glenn Vaughn’s col
umn of last week in connection with the “re-occur
ring problems" of the existing relations betwoen
the Caucasian and the Negro races.
Because Mr. Vaughn, instead of drawing con
clusions, asked only some very leading questions,
I make no comments upon his article other than
this. His suggestion that the Negro population be
encouraged to migrate to other sections is being
carried out, not through Southern initiative, but
through the plain common sense of certain Negroes,
who have realized their chances of advancement
down here are almost nil. and who have moved to
parts of the country where they can live like
human beings—human beings accepted in fellow
ship, not in toleration.
As a Southerner, I want the South to advance.
I want it to go forward not only technologically
with the aid of ALL our skilled people, but morally
and culturally.
And it Is hypocrisy when we say we believe in
democracy—if certain people stay In their place.
No, the problem is not “why these conditions
exist," but it is how to reconcile existing conditions
with our teachings of democracy and "brotherhood
in Christ.”
GEORGE WALLIS
Wants Rat Caps
Editor, The Red and Black:
It seems to me that one of the University’s main
manifestations of school spirit is being chucked
down the drain. I’m talking about rat caps, of
course.
When I was a freshman, one of the first things
I was told to do was get a rat cap without delay
and wear it at all times, or else bad things would
happen to me. I thought It was silly at the time,
but I see now that It was all done with school
spirit In mind.
What I want to know Is, where is that spirit
now? This Is the third week of school and I have
not seen the first rat cap yet. If they have not come
in yet, there is nothing anybody can do about it,
hut It seems that those in charge of rat caps have
known for many months that they would be needed.
Even if they do come in soon, there will be many
freshmen who will not buy them because it is
getting well into the quarter. Is this the last of the
Georgia school spirit?
IRATE JUNIOR
Campus Scenes
President Aderhold’s secretary: “I’ve been trying
to see the president for two days now, I suppose I’ll
have to make an appointment”
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Traffic council head Write Patton receiving
parking ticket vith initructiont to report to the
head of the traffic council.
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Co-ed seen sleeping on steps of Candler Hall.