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

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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,

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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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Fiesh men 1942 WHEN two hundred and fifty-two students regis- tered at Wake Forest for the first time last fall they could not quite understand why they wire required to wear little black and yellow badges with the words John Doe, Freshman cm them. The badges made them feel conspicuous, even made them feel inferior. But fresh- men pinned the emblems on, wrote their names on them, and it was not long before they did understand. Every upperclassman who passed a freshman would not merely say. Hello ; he would look at the badge and say. Hello. John Doe. And soon lie could call the freshman ' s name without referring to the badge. Thus the freshman ceased to he an organism wandering about tin ' campus. He became a friend to uppcrclass- nien. to his fellow classmates, and to his faculty. As he became a friend, he regained confidence which had been lost upon entering college. He came to be drawn by the fascinating lure of a really active campus life and soon began to try his mettle in polities, in sports, in debating and publications, and in religious groups. He learned the professors and the anecdotes about them. He performed his duties as a pledge and soon was initiated into his fraternity. He read the student body handbook and tried to learn its rules. And when ex- aminations came around, he rose to take his place among the envied upperelassmen. In short, lie began to take part in all activities, and when he began to take part, he was no longer a fresh- man. He was a Wake Forest man.