University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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Student SenatoTi L (Enatt ed oCoud 34nd J2on( Ouen ”62 (Eio4l4loV ' Committeemen fppoLntmentii Bob Stout . President Alice Henry . Vice-President Phil Alston . Secretary Elsijane Trimble . Treasurer You remember last Spring, don’t you? How the election came out? The Independent party was sitting around adding up the gravy, because there was no other party in existence. Then, the BOB STOUT, Student President night after the Publications Board met and se¬ lected the candidates for each of the publica¬ tions offices (Gad, what a dismal night that was—raining, thunder . . . ), up popped a sem¬ blance of an organization that looked like it might be another party. That was down around that neighborhood where the AGR ' s and the Kappa Sigs live. Yes, the KA ' s were in on it, too. Gail Borden was the reason there. Well, talk about mushrooms! That was on Tuesday night and by ten p. m., Wednesday there was a pretty good looking party organized. They called it the New Deal and started scouting for the best man on the campus to run for Prexy of the Associated students. They had their publica¬ tions candidates—Borden, Locke, Kipple. No, not Pleitz, they were going to jduII an unheard of trick and back the Traveler editor of the other party because they thought he was the best man. The New Dealers just needed a man to run for President, someone they could center the party around. cs Were Heated They found him, all right! Lanky Bob Stout, from down in the basement of the PiKA house. Of course the PiKA ' s were in the Inde¬ pendent party then, but that was all right; for the New Dealers anyway. Came the election, came the returns. PiKA ' s quaked in their shoes. If they’d all voted a straight Independent ticket, like they claimed they did, it rnight have been a different story. Bob Stout won the President’s race by twelve votes. Naturally opponent Nathan Gordon called for a recount which only served to show that Stout really won by only ELEVEN votes. But no matter, he won, as did all that origi¬ nal group of publications candidates except little Jimmy Kipple. He went down in defeat to Bes¬ sie B., a good ole girl, and Bohlinger is now busi¬ ness manager of this, yearbook. What didn’t look so good for Stout, however, was the way his senate turned out. Even last fall vvhen we got back to school and the sororities voted all their transfer pledges in the Freshman elec¬ tion, Stout only got one more senate representa¬ tive that he felt he could count on. It later turned out that he couldn’t and besides the fel¬ low never came to a senate meeting anyway. The line-up against the president was just about six- to-one, and to top it all off there was Phil Al¬ ston, (‘‘Governor” or “Googlepuss,” as you will) sitting in there as secretary of the senate. REPRESENTATIVES — Arts and Science, Carolyn Rainey, Joella Berry; Education, Earline Upchurch Little; Law, P. K. Holmes; Agricul¬ ture, Virginia Wilmuth; Engineering, Mac Roe¬ buck; Commerce, Bill Campbell; Junior Class: A. B. Chapman, Marigene Howell, Robert L. Hud¬ son, Glenn Smith; Sophomore Class, Jimmy Du- Bard, Doris Mills, Otis McCraw; Freshman Class, Jack Tuck, Oggie Bolin. Even some of his enemies felt sorry for “El Bosso” when he faced a group like that. When he went in for the first meeting of the year to get his appointments approved, it looked like open season on presidents. Oh, not that every indi¬ vidual in the senate was trying to get him down. It was just the way the senate was acting as a whole. Procedure: Stout read a list of appoint¬ ments; asked for a vote upon their approval; the entire senate sat dumbly; until at long last “Gov¬ ernor” Alston arose, wishing to say a few words; after many words, Mr. Alsto n succeeded in in¬ forming the members of the Senate, either by di¬ rect statement or allusions, what the party want¬ ed. Usually it was what the party did not want. Then enlightened senate members betook them¬ selves to vote. NO, repeatedly the vote was NO. ( 26 )

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Since the College of Agri- culture was established in 1905, the development of the various colleges and de¬ partments has been steady. In 1911, the Medical school hich had been operated rom 1879, became a part of the University. Expansion since then has — included the College of En¬ gineering, the Agricultural xtension Service, College of Education, General X ension Service, the Engineering Experiment ation, the Law School, the School of Business ministration, and the Graduate School. The Branch Agri Experiment Stations, which ccame University projects in 1925 are located in arianna, where cotton is grown, in Hope where nuit and truck garden is cultivated, and in i ttgart where rice is raised. Year before last, station for livestock and grazing experimenta- lion was established in Batesville. Since its founding shortly after the middle the nineteenth century, the University has come a long way. The sun-bonneted predecessor the 1939 campus ' ‘slick chick, ' ' would scarce- i ized today. And the naive interest orse and buggy varieties of fun has disappear- ferinoWment w 11 Ui iversity has changed quantitatively as sh Qualitatively. This year, the enrollment and eight per cent increase over last year J a 50 per cent increase over the last five ears. The degrees conferred in 1938 were 398, of fu ere granted the entire first 35 years c University ' s existence. unusually rapid increase in the stu- im mirollment in recent years has come also an Por ant change in the character of enrollment. administrators are generally agreed inst t ' uble for the different classes in an thp higher education to contain about same number of students. 43 13 years ago, the freshman class had about uumh students while the sophomores leav cent, a total for the two classes cliiH - ur the upper classes in- mg the Graduate school. iucrea years, the enrollment has Grad f junior and senior classes and cent until now approximately 45 per e students are upper classmen. cter guificant that this change in the char- e enrollment in the University has been accompanied by the emergence of the University from the ranks of what some satirical writers call fresh water colleges. Hazing is gone from the campus, including even the milder forms of com¬ pelling freshmen to wear silly little green caps and keep off certain walks. The old-fashioned ripla zip la, dip la du collegiate hysteria has gone the way of other an¬ tiquated customs, seemingly indicating a new ma¬ turity of University students. Though the freshman class of the University is much smaller altogether than of former years, yet it is still a large class. This year ' s freshman class is larger than the total student enrollment of any other institution of higher education in Arkansas. The increased enrollment of graduate stu¬ dents is particularly striking. Since most of them teach in the public schools of the state, they at¬ tend the University during the summer. Last year there were over 300 enrolled in summer school. One of the signs of progress for the Univers¬ ity of Arkansas is the marked increase in transfer students here in the last few years. Apparently they are finding out that Arkansas is not such a hick joint after all. Most recent addition to the rolls of transfer students is a Chinese citizen sent here by his government to do graduate work in the field of chemistry. From a small staff of 37 county and home demonstration agents serving 20,000 farm fami¬ lies in 1914, the Agricultural Extension has ex¬ panded to a large staff of workers, providing at least two agents to each county, and giving serv¬ ice to approximately 200,000 farm families. The service is developing rural leaders and en¬ couraging farm people who are being taught to raise their standard of living through in¬ telligent planning. General Extension Service classes are de¬ signed to give Univer¬ sity work to students unable to come to the campus, and to give courses for in-service workers who are not inter¬ ested in credits but need specific information in their field. Short courses, a third activity, are designed to meet the particular needs of occupa¬ tional groups, and this past year ' s program has included a variety of them—for bankers, legisla¬ tors, engineers, and waterworks superintendents. ( 25 )

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Whereupon President Stout would offer more ap¬ pointments and the procedure was repeated. Well, they not only refused Stout’s choices for the appointive posts, but they even pushed through a set of rules ‘ ' of parliamentary proce¬ dure,” which among other things provided that the senate could confirm its own selections for committee appointments without the consent of the president. These rules were drawn up and submitted by none other than the old “Governor” himself. After setting out the methods of procedure lor voting upon the president’s appointments on bloc, the new rules said:“.... any member of the senate may make a motion to consider for con¬ firmation the appointment of any individual offi¬ cer separate and apart from the complete list submitted by the president, and if the motion be seconded and carried, a further motion shall be entertained to confirm that appointment, and if that motion be seconded and carried, then that of¬ ficer shall be considered having been confirmed in his office and shall immediately proceed in the execution of the duties thereof.” Sounds like the “Governor,” doesn’t it? They were liberal enough that first day in and Wilfred Thorpe were appointed to the Ath¬ letic Council to replace Art Withers and Harold Brady. But that was all they did that first day in the senate, and “El Bosso” was irked no end. “Stormy” Lynch suggested he be appointed ser- geant-at-arms with the idea in mind that every time Alston opened his mouth he, “Stormy,” could smack it shut. Later in the year that same Lynch was at Alston’s side gunning for the New Dealers’ hides. The battle waxed hot in and out of the sen¬ ate meetings and finally Stout and Alston reached a compromise which gave Stout’s choice the cov¬ eted chairmanship of the social committee and split the rest of the appointments about evenly between the two parties. Russell Hughes, AGR and ardent New Deal¬ er, was confirmed as social chairman. He had been acting as temporary chairman all the time the senate fight was being carried on. The “rules of parliamentary procedure” were repealed and ‘‘El Bosso” again had a little power in his grasp. Gene Farmer, editor of the directory, assistant editor of the Traveler and sports editor of the Razorback, was deemed well enough versed in TOP ROW—Alston, Berry, Campbell, Chapman, DuBard, Henry, Holmes, Howell, Hudson. ROW TWO—Little, Mills, Rainey, Roebuck, Smith, Trimble, Tuck, Wilmuth. the senate to approve the election committee, and three appointments to fill vacancies. On the elec¬ tion committee, which supervises all student elec¬ tions, went Ernie Wright, FFA bigwig and a po¬ litical mate of Stout’s last year, Henry Wood, one f the Independent party’s inner circle, Jimmy Byrd, former editor of the Razorback and an In¬ dependent of long standing, Claud “Stormy” Lynch, an unaffiliated agri, Harold Kent, a Fay- tteville business student, and “Hank” Ford, Lambda Chi law student. Elsijane Trimble, a Ohi Omega, was appointed treasurer of the As¬ sociated Students to fill the term of Bernice Bar¬ nett, who did not return to school. Lloyd Woodell journalism to hold a position on the Publications board. Appointed with him were: John Ed Chambers, Kappa Sig, Nathan Gordon, Sigma Nu, and Jack Townsend, Sig Alph. A. B. Chapman was appointed to the senate to fill the term of Sam DuBose, junior represen¬ tative, who did not return last fall; and Otis McGraw was made sophomore representative to fill the place of Billy Joe Denton. Included on the social committee along with Chairman Hughes were Andy Ponder, R. T. Martin, Hilluard “Pete” Rogers, Talbert Bowman, Norman Smith, Lloyd Gibson, Arnold Adams, Jane Buxton, Donald Bea¬ man, T. H. Lynn, Nola Hardin, and Bill Scales. ( 27 )