Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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'v ..w1A'!.J l ,fm --F -....- Y- I A .r ' . .. L KY: 'Hi' , I' h Tl-IE PELICAN SGCIETY The Pelican Club was organized at Louis- iana State University during the spring of 1932 under the auspices of Major Wandle. Dur- ing that spring it acted as host to the visiting baseball and track teams. This fall it again took an active part in school life. During the football season it was particularly helpful. The members of the society played host to all the visiting athletic teams on the campus and at the Tulane game it arranged a mammoth bon- fire and celebration the night before the game. During the Tulane classic the society had made plans for a special cheering section devoted to spectacular display. This special section brought forth much favorable comment. It presented a particularly nice picture with the Pelican Society in a white field against the va- riety of colors in the stadium. They were aided in their display by the co-eds, who assisted by forming colorful designs with purple and gold cloths. During the boxing and basketball seasons the society continued its activities and during the State High School boxing and basketball tournaments the members took the opportunity to offer the hospitality of L. S. U. to the high school visitors. The organization works entirely through the athletic department and is sponsored by it. The primary purpose of the club is to attempt to foster good sportsmanship on the campus and good will abroad among our collegiate visitors. The many letters received from visiting teams following their engagements here testify to thc success of the organization in establishing good will and cordial relationships with other schools. In recognition of the line work done by the members of the society, the athletic department presented each man with a sweater and Pelican insignia. Those receiving sweaters were: Ray Donaldson, Thomas S. Boggess, Leon Rey- mond, John G. Allen, Gilbert D. Litton, T. DeWitte Boaz, Robbin C. Anderson, Howard E. Spann, Joseph T. O,Brien, Milton Andre- pont, Fred Cole, Sidney C. Bowman, James Malone, Henry Louis Cohn, Vernon LaCour, Charles C. DeC1ravelles, Lasley Richardson, Douglas Chew, Richard Cadwallader, Sam Mc- Cune, Oma Bates, Edward Stockwell, Ray Scheuring, Frank Grigsby, Alfred Glassell, Lansing Mitchell, George Schwab, Morgan Mc- Call, M. Greenwald, John Lehman, Durward P. Thomas, and William B. Gourrier. Alfred Glassell is the president of the so- ciety and the members are practically all taken from the Junior class. PAGE THIRTY-TWO

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and educational aspects of the university life. At the beginning of the year, the University pur- chased five hundred Community Concert tickets and offered the season's four concerts to the stu- dents free. In January, Dr. Howard Odum, distinguished scholar and leader in research and social science in the South, delivered a series of lectures under the auspices of the newly-established Edward Douglas White foundation. This foundation is the first of its kind to be established at this university. It honors in its name the late Judge White of Louis- iana, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1910 to 1920. Under the provisions of the foundation, a dis- tinguished scholar will be invited each year to give a series of lectures here dealing with problems of citizenship and government. In November, University Nightv was inaugurated and the principal speaker for the occasion was Dr. John Tigert, president of the University of Florida. University Night, according to the explanation given out by President Smith, is the name given to a special form of general faculty and .staff meeting in the nature of a social and professional gathering. The ob- ject of the meetings, one to be held in each of the two semesters of the ses- sion, is to strengthen academic spirit on the campus and to develop a recipro- Cal professional interest between the various professional groups of the staff and faculty. On each occasion a speaker of particular attainments will be secured. Q Such organizations as the Graduate Club, Pi Sigma Alpha, Young Men's Christian Association, and the Cosmopolitan Club have been instrumental in bringing prominent men and women to this campus as lecturers, and this is a fair indication of the interest manifested by both students and the faculty in the academic development of the University. J. G. LEE, JR. College of Agriculture PAGE THIRTY-QNE 1 R. L. TU LLIS Law School ARTHUR VIDRINE Dean of Medical Center MAJOR JAMES PERRY COLE Dean of Student Affairs Smith Hall, the girls' dor- mitory, looking out to the center of the parade grounds.

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Tl'-IE CASE OP the Stolen iBallot5 Who stole the ballots? It is one of those questions that remain buried in secrecy, something which even the almighty Student and Honor Councils have never been able to determine. The facts in the case are as follows: Midday during the constitutional election four students were said to have forcibly escaped to parts unknown with the precious ballot box and any number of ballots tucked under their arms, leaving in their wake a group of wide-eyed elec- tion commissioners. The following morning found the stolen re-- ceptacle perched rather cockily on the top of one of the campanile lamps, and on each of its four sides, inscribed in a murky pink paint, ran an epigram to the dead but not forgotten votes so mysteriously wafted away. That week the Reveille carried sensational streamer headlines, violent editorials, open and signed accusations and the whole drama reached a pinnacle of excitement. Cavaliers pointed accusing fingers at the T. N. E.'s and the T. N. E.'s returned the compliment. The Honor Court put their heads together to dis- cover the culprits, but it little mattered because the constitution was not valid in the first place. With tongue in cheek, Dr. Smith pointed out rather calmly that the document contained no enabling clause. So closed the episode with the Cavaliers and T. N. E.'s both grumbling over the outcome. Sensational as the case may be, it is not unique in the political history of the University. It only joins the mystery of the four hundred lost ballots of 1931-32. Curious tampering with the elecn tion machinery is a popular student pastime and it was with a view to stopping this sort of politics that the administration appointed Major James P. Cole dean of student activity. Major Cole took office here at the beginning of the second term and directly after he had assumed his duties a new student con- stitution was drawn up-and this time with an enabling clause- Hnd was approved by the student body-and this time without any stealing of ballots. The new constitution provides an entirely new System of government based on the participation of each college in the University as a unit. Each college is to elect its own officers and is to have at least one representative on the Student Council and as many more as the proportional enrollment allows. The president of the student body is to be elected at large and is empowered to ap- point one member from each college to the Honor Council. His appointments, however, must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the Student Council. v The elections are scheduled for May 1 and at the time we go to press, we wonder whether or not our successor will have the oppor- tunity of recording a sequel to the famous case of the stolen ballot box of 1933. PAGE TH I RTY-THREE The four sides of the story as it was told the morning following the episode.