Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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%m-u JHWf™ jfe t fe ' ■y K-jenetaiea L, omyanienJ liiy . . . Students on a college campus work and play just as citizens in an outside world. The government designed for the student on the campus is relatively the same to him as the national government is to the citizen outside. Few individuals realize the need for student legislation more than the men who make, abide by, or break the campus laws. As is true in the world of America, the men who are parts of the world make the laws, break them, or abide by them. At Wake Forest the regulations are effected by the students. Lines of discipline are not harsh but rigid; the student sees for himself those rules he needs best to abide by. His channel of requirements is shaped by a student council and student le gislature. 16

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wm mmmm ■m STUDENT COUNCIL Up ipon the Student Council lies the responsibility for the law and order of Wake Forest; upon this, the most important organiza- tion on the campus, are imposed the duties of making rules regarded necessary for college men and of dealing with those few who violate these regulations. The president of the student body, Bobby Gold- berg, is president of the Student Council and presides over the weekly meetings and the special call meetings necessary to transact urgent busi- Bob Goldberg ness. With the other members who are elected President from the various classes, he has done a splendid job of administering the rules which the Student Legislature has passed upon. One of the vital questions brought up each year is that of upholding the honor system, and this year ' s Student Council has completed a noble work in this capacity. One of the praiseworthy policies of the group is that of refraining from spreading the news that a student has been ordered to leave school because of dishonesty. Should a man be convicted of such, he is quietly asked to leave the college, and nothing more is said about the matter. Probably the most significant work of the Student Council is dealing with the host of new men who arrive on the campus every September. To help with the orientation of the freshmen the Council has created the Freshman Advisory Board, whose chief duty is to make the frosh feel at home from the moment they set foot on Deacon soil. A notable work of the past group was the elimination of gambling here at the college and in general abolishing all practices which might mar the superlative traditions of Wake Forest College. This year ' s Councilmen have realized the position to which they have been chosen l their fellow students, and they have carried out remarkably the austere duties imposed upon them. 28