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LET’S START 1931 RIGHT AGGIES
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BERT SMITH, Prop.
Faculty-Student Conference Had
Several Interesting Features
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R O T C And Racial Discussions
Very Heated
By M. L. Cashion
The Faculty-Student Conference
held in Detroit December 27-31 was
the first national gathering- of this
sort ever assembled. There had been
many studious hours spent on the pro
gram which was arranged in two
phases. One of these was a general
assembly of all delegates where out
standing student leaders gave ad
dresses on topics pertaining to prob
lems of campus, faculty-student re
lationships etc., by such men as Dr.
Niebuhr, Stitt Wilson, Sherwood Eddy
and Norman Thomas. There were two
of these addresses each day-morning
and evening. In the afternoons there
were also general assemblies led by
Dr. Charles Gilkey, chaplain of the
University of Chicago. The purpose of
these assemblies was to give assist
ance on every day religious doubts,
problems and living.
Each morning and afternoon the
conference was divided into smaller
groups or commissions for purpose of
discussing all manner of relationships
and problems that appear on cam
puses such as R O T C; cribbing and
general dishonesty; relations between
faculty and students; relations be
tween men and women; race relation
ships; the curriculum; social condi
tions; fraternities and sororities; pub
lications etc.
Probably the most interesting—cer
tainly the most heated— arguments
centered around race relationships and
the R O T C.
A concrete example of racial pre
judice, tradition and difficulties arose
within the conference itself where
there was a misunderstanding between
the executive committee and the man
agement of the Book-Cadillac Hotel
as to what constituted “equal right
basis” between white and negro dele
gates attending the conference. Cer
tain discriminations, than those agreed
to, were being made. Radical dele
gates forced the question from the
hands of the executive committee who
was trying to work out the problem
to the conference floor where a red
hot argument raged for twenty four
hours over a solution to the particu
lar situation. After threatening to
move from the hotel the conference
discovered that no other accommoda
tions could be found for so many dele
gates. The Hotel authorities were both
kind and sympathetic as far as busi
ness would allow them to act.
This whole event shows that the
race problem is as acute in the north
as it is in the south; that it can not
be solved by ever so vigorous a dis
cussion on the part of student, facul
ty or Christian groups; that the solu
tion is a process of education which
is slow, and effective only in the hands
of patient, farsighted and conserva
tive people. The radical will never
solve it.
The next topic that came in for crit
ical discussion was the R O T C. Ev
ery delegate seemed to have an opin
ion whether he attended a R O T C
institution or not. Some cases were
cited where certain organizations on
the campus had completely broken
with the military element. Details of
the situation at the University of
Iowa were given where the opposing
elements have gone up to the legisla
ture for a final decision as to wheth
er R O T C shall remain on the cam
pus.
The general objections were that it
destroyed initiative, developed a de
cided class complex, its system is
conducive to hazing, that it interferes
with progress of peace programs, and
that its methods are shams where the
deeper purposes are hidden by “girl
colonels,” “display parades,” “horse
shows” etc.
Points in favor of the military sys
tem were that drilling was a means
of regular and systematic exercise,
that it is more economical, that it
subjected a student to discipline which
he did not get at home, and that the
student probably learned a few points
of respect, obedience, etc., that might
possibly be an asset.
Announce Short Story
Contest For Students
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A short story contest open to under
graduates in American colleges and
universities has been announced by
The Ladies Home Journal.
For the best short story and the
best short short story turned in the
Journal will give $1,000 and $500 re
spectively. Short short stories must
be mailed not later than February 1,
1931, and short stories not later than
March 1, 1931.
In the short story contest a limit
of 5,000 to 7,000 words is placed up
on the writer, but there is no restric
tion as to title or subject. Short short
stories must be from 1,200 to 2,500
words in length.
The right to buy at its regular
rates any story submitted which de
serves printing, but which does not
win a prize is reserved by The Ladies
Home Journal.
Man has been cleverer with his
hands than with his head—Leonard
Behrens.
Marriage is an art, and now the
most neglected of arts. Education
should begin not later than at the age
of two.—Judge Ben Lindsey.
It is the opportunity for self-gov
ernment itself which gives training
for self-government, not foreign sub
jection.—Sir Rabindranath Tagore, In
dian poet.
There are no truer pictures of hu
man beings than those on passports.
—Juan J. Aigura.
It is easy to see that many accept
ed conventions are disappearing.—
Rev. Dr. W. R. Bowie.
IN MEMORIAM
We, The Sophomore class,
desire to express our sympa
thy with out classmate, C.
N. Hielscher who was recently
bereaved by the death of his
father, Mr. T. J. Hielscher,
of Beaumont, who met his
death in an automobile acci
dent on December 31, 1930.
T. B. Goodrich,
President.
In order to show students of
wealthy parentage how to get started
in the business or professional world,
a “Professor of Work,” has been add
ed to the faculty of Antioch College,
at Yellow Springs, O.
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