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

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STUDENT COUNCIL JOHN ELLIOTT GALLOWAY President To maintain and perpetuate the high ideals for which Wake Forest has ever been respected and to promote common interests and general welfare of our college community — that through- out the year has been the purpose of the Student t ' oimeil, led by President John Elliott Galloway. The Council began work in September with decisions to devote chapel periods to discussion of the honor system, to appoint a secret committee for choosing men for Who ' s Who In American Colleges and Universities, and to uphold sanity in Wake Forest ' s unique dance problem. Since December 7 the Council has collaborated with faculty in interpreting college wartime policies. In addition it has ac- tively sponsored the drive to purchase a $1,000 defense bond. One of its knottiest tasks was revision of the student con- stitution. With the Legislature, the Council unravelled all knots and worked out a document which will simplify duties of future councils. Other accomplishments were effected behind closed doors— th,- unfortunate hut essential duties of discipline and trial. The Stud, lit Council has met onee a week, two times a week, three times a week, worked hard and done its job and done it well.

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This pensive tableau, right, is the staff of the department of social sciences. Their specialties, Greece, Rome, the Renaissance, America before 1860, the Law of Diminishing Returns. The} ' are Messrs. Stroupe, Pearson, Clonts, Rea, and West. Since the war there is a good deal of Interpretation of Current Events in the Light of Past Experience. Below pictured, right to left, Dr. Reid and Mr. Oates of the philosophy- psychology department. They are seated in the seminar, apparently perusing one of the thousand-or-so books of a technical and philosophical nature which line the shelves. Above we have a juridical conference, featuring Professor White, and Dr. Stansbury, Dean of the Law School. In triumvirate at the table, left, are professors Lake, Timberlake, and Baer. Law school includes courses like Contracts, Criminal Law, Personal Property, Equity, Torts, Mortgages, Negotiable Instruments and Debtor ' s Estates. If you ' ve ever been in the toils of the law in a traffic violation, the idea that anyone could know enough about the subtle nuances of juris- prudence to teach it is wonderful. We stand in awe. - ' .■ »• i.. i.

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For nineteen years, since its birth in fact, Wake Forest ' s Student Legislature had been in a coma. This year the crisis approached and the legislature faced alternating fear of death and hope of resuscitation. Too long the Legislature had been inactive, the Student Coun- cil ruled, and President Clarence Bridger and his members could decide to abolish themselves or make themselves an active, vital governing body. The Student Legislature chose the latter and thoroughly reformed itself. President Bridger was elevated to a position on the Student Council, the Legislature declared that it would meet at least once a week to work as a wide-a%vake lower house, and it was decided that fifteen members instead of eighteen members would make up a quorum. Immediately after its reformation, the Legislature put itself to work on a complete revision of the student body constitution, working out a compact, to-the-point set of rules. The Legislature of 1942, stormy as its course has been, has effectively charted the way for legislatures to come, and it can only be hoped that these legislatures will fulfill their duties as actively as has been done this year. ■ ■ CLAREXCE BRIDGER President STUDENT LEGISLATURE Left to right: Paul Baker, Everett Berger, Clarence Bridger, Everett Jo Horace Kornegay. ill Burgwyn,