Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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ill letters to the Davkhmiiiiii. 1 lie Stii tient Council appointed a tweKe iiiaii Fraternity Evaluation Committee wliieli eventually proposed three solutions b a - of a majority report and two mi- nority reports. Brought to a trial vote, many individual proposals were ap proved by most of the student body, but the majorit)- of students approx ' ed the minority report which essentially proposed the status qtio. Study was also undertaken by the Faculty Committee on Fraternities, Clubs, and Social Life. Ibis committee presented its own re- port, called the McGavock report since Dr. VV. G. McGavock chaired the com- mittee. This committee approved many of the already proposed changes in the system but suggested rush be deferred until much later in the first semester of next year, followed by sophomore rush the following year. However, the faculty voted and took the proposals one step further: they supported an imme- diate ban of freshman rush for the com- ing year. Now only one vote remained —that of the Trustees at their meeting in late April. Many of the students, meanwhile, not taking time to realize that the faculty had given consideration to its decision, not stopping to think out the best way to convey their dis- approval to the Trustees, and fearing the complete abolition of fraternities in the near future, went wild. With recent Selma activitv and Ku Klu.x Klaiulesti- - .. nery fresh on their minds, they gath- ered, some five hundred strong, one evening which happened to be the mid- dle of Floly ' eek, and marched, sat down, burned effigies, brandished torches, and invoked the Almighty ' s curse on this evil fate which had so recently robbed them of their fraternal rights (rites?). Emotion ran high as the seniors planned a boycott of chapel and vespers. F owe er, a second thought brought more mature thinking to these temjiorary irrational minds, and, with emotions calmed, thev began to serious- ly consider the issues and decide what really needed fighting for. To further soothe tempers, the trustees voted for delayed first semester rush. Fraternal emotion, social emotion, in- tellectual, political, and religious emo- tion—Davidson is a melting pot of emo- tion. Into the cauldron we are immersed and four years later withdrawn in sol- emn maturity to meet the inevitable challenges. Time will reveal the ma- turity with whjch we responded to the emotion and the challenge of David- son ' 64- ' 65. Page Eleven

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Amde. mm The paradoxical requirement for Davidson is that its academic life must not be academic. Courses which invol ' e only the written regurgitation of lecture notes plus perhaps a moderate belching of bland memorization without inter- pretation of outside sources for their successful completion stand little chance of being anything but academic— ad nauseam. David- son must carry out its announced dedication (D.C. Ref. Catalogue, 1964-65, p. 2) to setting no limits to the adventures of the mind. It must not destroy the eagerness for learning of an incoming fresh- man by offering him a maze of sterile facts and petty rules; it must instead challenge him to four years of argument through which he can grow by both win- niny and losing. Classes Editor Brown McCallum Faculty, Administration Editor IJuford Norman