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

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THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE SOCIAL CHAIRMAN FITTON . . . gone are the days of reign and rule, anarchy and graft. GARVIN 1 FITTON 7 . . Chairman of Social Committee MEMBERS OF SOCIAL COMMITTEE Landon Brown George Doerries Lacey Morton J. B. Piper Paul Day John Thane James Rowan Alan Stallings Charles Laster Shirley Smith Melba Rogers Down into the well-known rut has gone the Social Committee for the past two years. The good old days of reign and rule, anarchy and graft, have gone the way of all good things, meaning right down the drain pipe into the democratic hands of something called student government. After this attack of constitutionalism student affairs became a matter of rules and regulations for the Manual of Rules and Regulations For Students says, to wit: Student social functions are under the jurisdiction of the Social Committee of the student senate together with the Personnel Director or the Dean of Women or both. Once upon a time the telephone rang long and loud for the Social Chairman the first of each semester. Now, since the regulations governing student social affairs have come into their own, all student organizations that give social functions shall submit in writing to the chairman their first, sec¬ ond, and third choice dates on the social calendar. Contested dates, if any, are awarded by a special committee consisting of the chairman of the Social Committee, the Dean of Women, and the Personnel Director. Record of the dates is further legalized by being kept in the personnel office. After the committee sets the dates for the student dances, the student senate determines the price of admission. Mr. Bell, the business manager of the Student Union, has charge of the collection. Halt is called on all social functions during the last twenty-eight days of each semester unless permission is given by the Dean of Women and Personnel Director. Saturday nights during that time are held open for student dances except the Saturday nights during the examination schedule. The power behind the selection of the Student Social Committee is the president of the Associated Students. The appointments are, however, confirmed by the Student Senate. Before the first of November the Social Committee arranged for nine student dances. Also during that time three sororities had their fall tea dances, and Mortar Board gave its fall formal. Before the twenty-eight day law clamped down on the swinging out, there were eight more student dances, and seven sororities and fraternities gave their fall formals. Page 26

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spicuously bare spots explained that the Senate was asking co-operation in beautifying the campus. Smaller ones merely said “Please”. When the Senators had come to a collective conclusion that half the persons in school couldn’t read, the Buildings and Grounds came through with a more drastic and more effecive means of persuasion. In fact, the students said, “It stinks,” but it kept them off the grass. 1 he Senate conducted an extensive campaign on raising wages for student labor that unfortunately proved too extensive. The Senators with power consulted the authorities about establishing a minimum of twenty-five cents an hour for working students. Success w as reached for the boys in the Student Union, and for several other groups on the campus, but one department operating on a graduated scale basis, refused to comply. Meanwhile the other members of the ruling body made a store-to-store canvass on the square and in Shuler town inquiring about w ages paid. From a long list of business houses only about a half dozen did not pay the requested amount. In a couple of such cases the Inquiring Senators were told it was “none of their damn business.” But since the number underpaid was so small, and the University department would not serve as a shining example, the Senate let the matter drop. In order to make sure everything was going on as the students had asked last year in the book store proposition, a committee headed by Lawson Cloninger made an investigation. Everything was, but definite figures could not be quoted until the one-year period ended in July, 1941. Lave Newbold, senior class president, made pleas before the Senate that a three-year contract be Ut on the invitations. There were more arguments and more questions, while salesmen appeared with samples and brief cases. Words fraught with insinuations were hurled between Newbold and Fred Johnson, but a contract was finally accepted. Other business of the Student Senate included ratification of bouncers when an irregularity oc- curred, a request to organization secretaries to file a schedule of meetings in the Personnel office, and an agreement to put up “No Smoking” signs in Main building when the faculty provided a lounge¬ smoking room in the basement. But there were no party squabbles over appointments or elections rules. I he majority party took ' t easy and let the two dissenters feel overwhelmed. Front Row —Butler, Gray, Simpson, Johnston, Yates, Eley, Cloninger Middle Row —Moore, Reed, Muir, Hathaway, Thomas, Sawyer, Johnson Rack Row —Watkins, Howington, Rose, Edmiston, High, Hilton, Couch

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By far the biggest hop of the semester was the Homecoming Dance on November 9. The Com¬ merce Guild and G. E. S. had their dances. The Kappa Sigs celebrated before Christmas with a house dance and the Sigma Nus had their annual hillbilly brawl, the Sadie Hawkins dance. Spring semester the formals ran the student dance right oft the Boor. There were only four during the entire semester. Most of those came during the last few weeks of the term. I vvelve fraternities and sororities had their dances with the Sig Alphs having the last word on the formal calendar. Carnall Hall held forth on May 2. Other organizations had their usual spring events. Among the big dances were the Law School, Inter-fraternity Council, Pan-Hellenic, Scabbard and Blade, Theta Tau, Engineers, “A” Club, Agri dances, and the Military Ball, not to mention the Junior-Senior Prom. A variety of organizations was represented on the Social Committee for 1940-41, and, as ex¬ pected, the variety was almost entirely from dens of New Dealism. In other words, the New Deal pait kept its campaign promises, gave appointments to the loyal organizations. Pi Kappa Alpha led tu list with three members—Chairman Garvin Fitton, Jimmy Rowan, and George Doerries. Doer- 1 ,cs ls a so Tom the Engineers’ Co-op House as is Landon Brown. Sigma Nu had John 1 hane on the committee (probably a reward for brother Henry’s diligent work in the ’40 political campaign). Lacey Morton represented Sigma Chi while Alan Stallings and J. B. Piper held up the honors of Alpha Gamma Rho and FFA, respectively. Only two members of the committee were from sororities es, you guessed it, both were from groups which voted right in ’40. 1 hey were Melba Rogers of Delta Gamma and Shirley Smith of Delta Delta Delta. Paul Day probably received his appointment foi his excellent ward heeling for dear old New Deal, 1938 to 1941 inclusive. Payoff for the job of social committeeman is free admission to student dances. Not much, but good wages considering what t ' ey do which is nothing. Front Row —Fitton, Thane, Smith, Day, and Rogers Rack Row —Stallings, Brown, Rowan, Morton, Laster, and Piper Page 27