University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Sealed: Eula Mae Dees, 3etty Dahlin, Helen Tanner, Mary Jo Rexdleman, President: Hazel Bryant, Alison Rice, Miss Alexander, Adviser. Standing: June Feiker, Doris McRoberts, Secretary; Kay Bissell. Why Don ' t You Do Right? ( „very Monday night the judicial branch of Student Government, garbed in austere black robes, goes into action. The Board is presided over by Chief Justice Jody Rendleman, otherwise known as Student Government President Rendleman; Student Government Secretary Doris McRoberts acts as secretary for the Board. The Judy Board, as it is known in common parlance, is renowned for administering impartial justice to offenders, large or small, freshmen or seniors, neurotics or Physical Education majors. None need fear to enter the room with the green horseshoe table — nine times out of ten smiles are lurking in the eyes of these judges (unaccustomed as they are to looking stern) ! Under the supervision of Judy Board are the hall boards which handle minor cases in each dormi- tory. Our hall boards are composed of the house president and four members of the dormitory and a member of the Judy Board. Judy Board records and reviews all hall board cases, and every girl has the right to appeal a hall board decision. The goal of Judy Board is to consider each case individually and to make the student understand how its decision was reached. It is probably the only court for miles around where rule-breakers are given every opportunity to talk back. With the experience they have had, we might expect to see some of our Judy Board members ap- pointed to the Supreme Court some day. Twenty

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TVl lthough the legislative branch of Student Government does not originate tax bills, it does keep an interpretative finger on the pulse-beat of the campus. Composed of three members from each class, a representative from each dormitory, house presidents, presidents of the Recreation Association and the Y, Legis- lature meets more or less regularly in the Student Government room of the Alumnae House to debate until twi- light on campus problems or lack of same. The vice-president of Student Government, Phyllis Crooks, wields the gavel with proper respect for the Alumnae ' s mahogany table and for Robert ' s Rules of Order. Janet Holmes, Student Government Treasurer, acts as secretary of the Vox Pop body, and Dr. Lyda Shivers, Miss Genevieve Walberg, and Miss Clara Giese act as faculty advisers and chief referees. The first business of Legislature this year was to consider the recommendations of the pre-school Student Gov- ernment conference. These recommendations were passed with notable dispatch (the legislature members were members of the conference) ! Early in the year, Legislature set up a Chapel Board to handle cases of chapel absence and thereby relieved Judy Board of the burden. This innovation has proved to be a well-advised one. In the interest of conserving electricity and health, a rule was passed requiring that lights be turned out at twelve o ' clock; this rule almost produced a minor revolution among students who found it necessary to make new schedules or to start adhering to the ones they had already made. Use of candles, kerosene lamps, and coal miner ' s caps was definitely discour- aged by both Legislature and the administration. Though Legislature represents the interests of all the various groups on campus and is responsible for keep- ing faith with both the groups and common sense, there have been few casualties. The latest movement afoot is to pass a rule abolishing term papers in order to save our Library from extreme over-congestion every January and May! .. I move That We First Row: Wenkenbach, Lowe, Ferrell, Griffith, Cherry, Hollingsworth, Whitley, Vann, King. Second Row: Fairley, Hornaday, Johnson, Slocum, Dr. Shivers, Holmes, McRoberts, Upchurch, Crooks, Miss Wal- berg, Miss Giese, Saunders, Vann, Mendenhall. Third Row: Miller, Glaze, Spivey, Muller, Crooks, De Voe, Sherrill, Tyree, James, Daugherty, Dickey, Hatfield, Rendleman.

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,omposed of student and faculty members, the Finance Board manipulates the intri- cate purse-strings of the campus. All treasurers and business managers of student organizations which desire pecuniary backing must present their budgets to the Board early in the school year, and it ' s their problem to convince the Board that they have need for the amounts they request. The approved method of doing this is to present an itemized account of the organization ' s estimated expenditures and hope the Budget Balancers can see it that way. Considering the needs of all organizations, the Finance Board has always complied with these requests so long as it could make all ends meet. This year, however, both the Board and the student financiers were faced with the necessity for strict economizing in the interest of the war effort; thus, or- ganizations willingly cut their expenses to the bone, feeling that any frills would be in poor taste at this time of national emergency. Our Financial Wizards Crowell, Hooke, Dr. Keister, Tanner, Chairman; Miss Lewis, Grimsley. Twenty-one