The Carolinian [October 9, 1953]

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Woman's College—"Distinguished for Its Democracy"
VOLUME XXXIV ■SSI WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. GREENSBORO, N. C. OCTOBER ». I»5I NUMBER S
Legislature Asks Student Body I Chapel S\it Inaugurates
For Honor Chapel Attendance Purse Drive For $4-000
Peters Sings Tonight
A recommendation to place chapel attendance on an honor basis received unanimous legislative approval
Wednesday night. The student body will vote on the matter at the next mail meeting.
Previous to this, students will discuss the question in house meetings so that they may be prepared to
vote intelligently. Martha Washam. n,airman of the Convocations Committee, will work with house presi-dents
to plan this presentation and the taking of straw votes in house meetings.
After approving first semester | ■
election schedule, Legislature dis-cussed
for an hour the preferential
method of election, introduced that
night by Chairman of Elections
Board Barbara Mitchell. Asking for
further Information as to the nature
of the method, the group recom-1
mended to the Board that a mock *'?', ° AH , rea"'r,med,its «™"'«ri»« »« votes is continued
election be held within Legislature ^ ,! „ K Preferential system until one candidate receives a ma-
...... .u , .,., , _ of voting this week, and announced ; jority vote. Transferring votes is
the same as a run-off election of
there is a tie between two candi-dates,
or if a candidate does not
The system, which was Initiated, have the majority vote required by
stipulated,however that Elections experlmcnU1Iy ln class elections j student government constitution.
Board ask at its own discretion in!Iasl sPrinS' wln 8° lnt0 effcct next! When more ,nan one peTsan ls
Elections Board Accepts
Tentative Voting System
to study the preferential ballot in .
,. plans to use the preferentia meth-c_
o..m, panso.n..with the .str,aght..balot. iod, wh. enever f,easi.b..le d,uring the
This would be done before the sys-l,„«„ .,
, . 1953-54 year,
tern is used In a campus-wide or
class election. The recommendation
Service League has set $4000 as arrange your values, to try to ua-goal
for this year's Campus Purse derstand Just what "cute" means.
Drive The drive will begin on Oc-1 ,nd tUMt wny „,,„ u „ m„cn m,
lober 20 with a chapel skit, and the1 . . . ....
co.lle.c.tion of- con.tr.ib.u.tions b. y t..he phasu on boys and dates. I often
residence hall representatives will, ""M" B0W "hallow people are.
be climaxed on the evening of [ their friendship seems to be so SB-Thursday
October 29. by a Faculty; perficlal, and wondered why they
Talent Show . usr such superlatives like "I love".1
This Is the one big campaign dur-1 "H's wonderful !" "You're so
ing the year for donations to chart-' cute!," "Oh. It's beantlfnl!" so of-table
organizations; no funds will' ten, why they say "Come and see
be solicited on campus for this pur- me," "I love your dress," with n.
pose at any other time. I meaning behind It at all. Their con-
A significant part of the Purse versatlon seemed to be solely on
Drive money goes to help bring boys, dates, clothes, looks, or home-here
the foreign students who, work and trades, and you feet that
mean so much to Woman's College, there is no place for you to fit in.
L'pperclassmen will remember Yo-ko
lshlkawa, from Japan, who stud-led
here last year. These are ex-cerpts
from a letter she wrote to
Adriann Caspar, a foreign student
regard to the holding of the mock ] Thursday, when the senior class to be elected, such as the senior who ,g nere now.
election. (See separate story on
preferential ballot. >
On a recommendat'on brought
by Mary Owens Bell fiom Facully-
Studcnt Reviewing Commiltec. Leg-islature
voted lo sanction the break-ing
of the cafeteria li.ie when a
student has parents or older people
as guests. The body voied no to
the proposal that this include stu
elects its May Queen and May Day. class election of eight outstanding
Chairman. The voting method to be seniors, another method of voting,
upsed in the election of the Eight Proportional Representation will
Outstanding Seniors is as yet un-,be used.
announced, pending action by Elec- ^ The voter must vote In the same
tions Board on a recommendation way as in preferential, by indlcat-frnm
Legislature. j ing her first choice by placing num-
But really, give them a trial of, say.
three months and you will begin to
understand them and after that
really love them . . .After a while
you begin to understand their way
of speaking and learn to take their
. . . where to begin? I feel I've words not at their literal meaning
got so much to tell you. about my hut by what they mean. You begin
year at W. C, al! the sorrows and to realize that "Im starved to
joys I experienced there, all the death" simply means that they're
advices I would like to give you. hungry, that "I'm freezing" means
all the things which mrant so that it's a lltle cold. You see. It's
much to me. and yet . . . perhaps it just a way of expression and you
The recommendation calls for a [ b«"rs '" order by candidate's names, is berause I don't know you. But I have to get used to It. You begin
mock election within Legislature', Since voting for a subsequent pref- do know you_ to0i because there understand that although th
before the new system is used in a' erence cannot possibly affect a ca„., h, a frea, diffrrrnrr In what words sound hollow and shallow,
ill nis'dates also. Mary Owens men-! campus wide or class election, in previous selection, every voter , foreign student feels in a new they're full or sincerity and it's on-tioned
that the committee was ln- j an effort to test its effectiveness in should indicate as many choices as world _ _ _ ,, ,h.lt ,nry dont understand you
vestigating pre-registration for relation to the established method she has. _ Perhaps you're thinking, "I when you're silent and are wonder-crowded
courses. Carolyn Sevieri of voting. iSce story on Legislature; Under one proportional repre- wonder if I'll ever get used to this ing why vou don't speak out your
was chosed freshman representative action.) ' sentation system each candidate to craxy American life at all." It ts thoughts . . .
to this committee. Barbara Mitchell. Electlons;°e elected must receive a number really so hard to adjust to the new . . . I'm feeling now that the
Legislature also approved the ap- Board Chairman, offers here an ex- «' votes equal to the electoral quota way of life, especially when the year was one of the happiest years
pointment of Melissa Morse to N.! planation of the preferential sys- which is worked out by the number language Is different, to sort of re- of my life.
S. A. council, filling the vacancy
left by Caroll Butts.
ir Met Opera Star Presents
First Civic Music Recital
Roberta Peters, Metropolitan minute substitute for an ailing
Opera star, will appear at Aycock Prtma donna in the Metropolitan's
Educational Service
Sets Dale of Annual
Examination, Feb. 13
The National Teacher Examina-tions,
prepared and administered
annually by Educational Testing
Service, will be given at 200 test-ing
centers throughout the United
States on Saturday. February 13.
1954.
At the one-day testing session a
candidate may take the Common
Examinations, which include tests
in Professional Information. Gen-eral
Culture, English Expression,
and Non-verbal Reasoning; and one
or two of nine' optional Examina-tions
designed to demonstrate mas-tery
of subject matter to be taught
Woman's College officials, or the
MI m which --in' i- Mik-
Ing employment, will advise her
whither ahc -.Mould take the Na-tional
Teacher Examinations and I
nhii h ui t ii<- option*] wmlmtlom
to select.
Application forms and a bulletin
of information describing registra-tion
procedure and containing sam-ple
test quest inns may be obtained
from college officials, school super-intendents,
or directly from Na-tional
Teacher Examinations, Ed-ucational
Testing Service. P. O.
Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey.
Completed applications, accom-panied
by proper examination fees,
will be accepted by the ETS of-fice
during November and De-cember,
and in January so long as
they are received before January
15. 1954
lem of voting: of Places to be elected and the to-1
Eliminating the need for prim-'ul number of ballots c,sl
aries and run-off elections, the pre-] First step in the tallying process ;
ferentlve method appreciably, Is sorting all ballots according to j
shortens vote-counting time. '""»» choices. If a candidate then |
Preferential voting insures the ,h" a quoU of vot" ■*• ls declared
election of the majority candidate; elected A" balIols ln "ceM <" the
in a single election, regardless of !quoU m ,hen distributed, ln prop-the
number of nominees It avoids er ra,io «ee°"«'»* '<> second choice,
the danger In plurality voting |to ,ne 0,ner candidates In the field
Auditorium Friday. October 9.
Miss Peters. Bronx soprano, made
her debut three years ago as a last-
Gen. Ed. Program at Harvard Supplies
Source of Ideas For Woman's College
of votes could win, If sufficient op-, by ,hls f«"»'er of surplus votes,
position votes are scattered among ,ne ballots are then transfered by
several candidates. \tht me,nod used In preferential
I voting.
The election procedure ls as fol-lows.
The voter indicates his PR is scientifically-devised
'Don Giovanni". After her debut
she was scored as Rosina in "The
Barber of Seville" and Ihe Queen
of Night in "The Magic Flute". The
same season she was invited to sing
at London's Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, in the "Bohemian
Girl", conducted by Sir Thomas
Beecham as one of the features of
the Festival of Britain.
During the past two seasons, the
soprano consolidated her position at
the opera by scoring in several
roles, among them Gllda in "Rigo-letto",
Despina In "Cosl Fan Tutte"
Ing and teaching at one of the most j perimental basis In the term be-' possible as It would be non-profit- and Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier"
prominent schools ln The Ivy ginning September, 1946, and fol- able for the two are of such dif- and also a number of radio and
League—Harvard University. Drs. f lowing a report of the Committee ferent types. According to Dr. i television appearances on programs
Eugene PfafT and l-enore O'Boyle, , on the Objectives of a General Ed- Pfaff. however. "Harvard is a mar- such as "Toast of the Town" and
recipients of Ford Grants, spent | ucation which stated that "a meth- ket place of ideas" An awareness "The Voice of Firestone."
their time in observation and study od. new lo Harvard, has been test- of some of the educational ideas Last spring, Roberta Peters be-by
Jean Ragan tlon to make several close observa- [ To attempt to draw a comparison
Three Womans' College profess- tlons of the General Education Pro- or contrast in almost any respect
toic "011511 111 |imiamj »fiui os, ■ o■■■rs- ■rtevcie.iniitiljy' nretuuurninedu tion tthinis- icaiimiiipjc- g«•ra•«m•<• a•••t Huranrvmari"d U1 nniivner1 s"1it1y1. T1 hni1s.- b.>et.w...e.e,,n, W,, vonmiaaun'sa Cvvoililterggec a.irnnr Hnialr-where
a candidate with a minority lf no 0,her candidate is elected | „, after a year', studying, observ- program was conceived on an ex- vard University would be as im-in
special fields, the Departmenl of
History and Ihe Department of Bo-ss]
In the educational laboratory which have been practiced expert-1 came a movie-star in her first pic-and
found fruitful." became perm- mentally at Harvard, and have' lure Tonight We Love", a 20th
anent and compulsory progressive- proved workable and worthwhile1 Century-Fox's film biography of
ly during the years 1949-50 and should widen the range of possl-1ner manager, Impresario S. Hurok.
choices in order of preferences on ,yslem of votln*' designed to assure
a written ballot, placing a "1" be-jef,ec,ive votln«' minority reprc-fore
the first choice, a "2" before «■•"="«"■ and majority rule. In so
the second choice, a "3" before the idoing' •*• s>'s"'m automatically j ciai Studies respectively.
third, and so on | provides for the apportionment of Dr Francis Laine was one of the
' nil t 'representatives from all groups in! twelve university teachers to re- j 1950-51. billties for Improvement in Wo-ihreet
proportion to their voting , celve a Carnegie Grant which en-j At present, the aims and over-all man's CoUflfjg (loneral Education
strength, hence the term Propor- j abied him to teach a course in his objectives of the General Educa- Program.
tional Representation In brief, the field afone of four universities j tlon Program of Woman's College ]„ Dr|,,( tnp primary aim of the1*
big advantage of preferential vot- connected with this particular is becoming a much-discussed Is- rev|,pd General Education Pro- ODGIIS jOCIfjl j6dS0M
grant plan—Yale. Chicago. Co-1 sue on the campus A study of such .. . ._'
lumbia and Harvard University a program began here more 1 li.iri
In addition to the excellent op- lwi> years ago, and has been based
marked, the first step of one tabu-lation
process requires segregation
of all ballots according lo first
choices. If a candidate then has a
maorily of ballots, she is elected
If DO candidate has a majority of
first place votes, the candidate
with the lowesl number of votM ll
defeated, Her ballots are then
11 rod I" thO I 1 .milidates who
are marked as second choice
thereon If this transfer does not
result in a candidate obtaining a
majority, the process of eliminating
the next lowesl candidate and
IDS is thai il reflei'ts accurately
vnterss wishes. If al any time
question! arlM as tn manner of
Campus-Wide Formal
Opens Social Seaso
U W. C. October 24
voting, JM'MII | ui (minting, etc., a portunily of spocKil study which largel) on studies conducted .'it
nicmher nf elections board should
be contacted
then cr.tnN ■ttordtd, Ibc
pnilY- ui wen- placed in ;i
three Harvard and
pod- univer-Hit -
other colleges and
Junior (lass Sells
W. (. Cartoon Book
W. C. Girl Travels Along Rhine River
From Cologne to Heidelberg Via Bike
gram at Harvard is. ns reported by
the Committee on Objectives.
"Ih.it there should lie eareflll se-
' ■ "' ""' "'I'l''^ '" bf stud- Th(. E|||()|| „an Ball W|i| official.
led mi the Hramption that though ,y opt,n lhe sm.,al srason at w. C.
much Is therefore left out. such „„ ,,„, ,.v,.,imi. of (Vt„her 24 at
M'leillvity would make possible a g.jQ
more searching an.ilv-is of the Mb- Thl. |,nn vUli,.h wl„ ^ lh,, first
td halt with, an analysis which rjffl|Tl|g Wtlta daOH i" HUoU Hall,
should attempt lo relate the prob-;ls umlpr „„, ,.o-el,ai,manship of
lems or books studied to a wide Betty
range of human ideas and expert- Moore
lences In this sense the General |no Soulherners of Wake Forest.
Jean llagan and Martha
Mn-ie will be furnished by
by Nancy Benson [for you the new could not wipe out Schiffers treated you as their own
Remember the day you and your the ugliness of the destruction all children. Mrs. Schlffer delighting
friends blked across the Dutch bor- .-.round, and thinking of the hor- in teaching you how to make her
der Into Ihe valley between the ror of war, you wondered whether delicious "pflaumekuchen," or other fields of learning." In aca-
A book of cartoons depicting and green, rolling hills of northwestern man is as civlllied as he likes to plum cake Dr. Schlffer, lawyer by ] demlc terms, the Program requires
dissecting life at Woman's College Germany? Sprinkled over the coun- think. • profession. Is also an accomplished ;that each student take a six-course
by Trilby Boerner and Norma Cof- i tryside were tiny towns with nar- j At the youth hostel in Frankfurt musician Every week several other program which Includes three ele-er
will go display In the library 'ow cobblestone streets and beau- you met a gentle and polite Ger- musicians come to his home and to-
Thursday October 15 and on sale llfully simple churches topped by, man boy who told you that he had gether they play chamber music,
in Elliott Hall the following Mon- tall, thin steeples Several days lat-1 been a member of the Hitler' sometimes to an audience of
day and Tuesday. er. ts you entered Cologne, you, Youth Group during the last war. friends.
1.000 copies of Oh College Dear caught your first glimpse of the j He frankly admitted that he had One evening your hosts took you'must be outside the student's de
To You have been published by the Rhine River, cradled In hills cover- fallen for the Nazi propaganda, to the famous Red Ox for dinner.
Clay Printing Company in Winston- ed with grape arbors and fruit "What else could we be expected and another night to a violin con-
Salem. trees The bicycles went with you to do when we hat it pumped into cert at Heidelberg University, the
Although the idea for a book of when you hopped on a river boat us day after day? And we had fun soloist being a friend of the doctor,
cartoons on life at Woman's Col- lor the trip to Wiesbaden, a well- —games, sports, fellowship." Now' During one of your talks, Dr.
lege occurred to both Trilby and known resort town. that he has had the opportunity to Schiffer told you that very few of
Norma separately, they said thet The destruction caused by Allied taste the democratic way of life he Ihe American soldiers and their
they got together last December bombs was one of the first things realizes what a diabolical system tamilies living In Heidelberg try
and began working toward their you noticed about the cities along Hitler's fascism was. Meeting to become friends with the Ger-goal.
which often seemed far dls- the Rhine. Dusseldorf. Cologne, Stephen was one of the most mean- mans, and that you and your mester. "This was not a lecture rordlngly, in her opening remarks
tant In Norma's words. "We want- and Bonn were hit especially hard.; ingful experiences of your trip, irlends were the only Americans course, however." Dr. Laine ex-;on student conduct at Founder's
ed to put down on paper various Sometimes for blocks you see only and you felt that many of the prob- he had ever met. You felt it tragic: plained One lecture began the
phases of WC life and what single walls, or perhaps a chimney lems of Ihe world could be solved that so many Americans wall them- course, but thereafter It was con-poes
on here" or two to prove that the area was if peolpes of every nation could selves off or don't make I In- effort ducted entirely upon a class dls-
Trllby and Norma financed the once a thriving community. You become friends with one another to meet the Germans, when they cusslon level The purpose of this
book themselves because they fel' d though, that the Ger- as you had become friends with have such a wonderful opportunity course -Crisis and the Individual."
partment of concentration.
Dr Laine taught one of these
General Education courses in the
division of Humanities, which was
open to Freshmen and Sophomores.
Humanities3. Crisis and the Indi-vidual
dealt in history and blog-rapy
in the first semester, and ln
drama and fiction In the second se-
Election Board Plans
First Term Schedule
October 15. 1B53—May •Jueen.
May Day Chairman, Eight Out-standing
Seniors
October 19 1953—Commercial
Class Officers
October 27. 1953—11 senior mem-bers
of May Court. 2 Mascots.
November 3. 1953^lunior Bopb-omore,
freshman attendants to May
Court
November 17, 1953 Freshman
Class Officers.
Other elections will take place
ln the class meetings. Election that It was their own responslbili- man people have done a remark- Stephen. to join in fnrnnShip with people js not to Illuminate
Board Members for 1953-54 are ty," and lf we go Into debt well, able job of rebuilding. Beside anci- You had no sooner entered Hei- th. ghting only a l*w|tJou of specific problems
Barbara Mitchell, chairman: and we're keeping our fingers crossed " as. structures and bomb ruins delberg on your bikes when a Ger- years ago
Education courses should have as A„ student, planning to attend
one objective the relation of the snouId „,„„ up as soon „ po^ibie
subject under consideration to on shteU whi(.n w,„ ^ ,n the
dorms Monday Elliott Hall repre-eentatlves
will sell programs for
$2 00 each in the residence halls.
Finance Board Head
Takes Legislative Seat
Through Amendment
mentary courses in General Edu-cation—
Humanities. Social Sci-ences,
and Natural Sciences—and
three additional courses which
President Emily Butner urged at
the first mass meeting of the year
Tuesday that students, in the fu-ture,
be aware of the responsible
freedom and student government
which they now enjoy and act ac-
Day program.
The student body amended the
• iinstituliiin of the Student Govern-ment
Association to make chairman
of finance board a non-voting mem-legislature
Five student leaders reported on
intercourse between the individual j plans for on* year made at pre-
Clara Morris. Nancy Gilbert, The Junior Cl.is. which has taken stand buildings as modern In ap- man couple approached you and When, after three glorious days,nd society hut rather to reflect' school conference. September 7, 8.
"Boots" Farah. Jinny Harris. PaUy'over the sale of the books as a part pearance as any ln the United asked, "You are looklnj! for the In Heidelberg, It was time to leave, conceptions of motivation and per Franklin summarised the
Beam, and Kappa Dove. Faculty of their class project, will sell States Only determination and youth hostel, no? It's probably you almost felt as though you were ronallty. self-realization and social ■functions and arcumpllshmenti of
advisor for the group Is Rita Bur- copies of Oh, College Dear T. Yon hard labor have made this possible full; so come to our house to stay " leaving home In return fur thru responsibility, and the manner of
o>tt ' in the lobby of Elliott Hall in such a short period of time But I And you did, for three days The ( (Continued on Poo* Three) (Continued on Pop* Tww>
th* Conference ■Distinguished de-immt
o« /'«»« Meei