Twin-City herald., 1933-10-21
Campus
Personalities
Rv Nellie Dodson

How can you please everybody :?
It just can't be done! For long time
campus students, both boys and girls,
have had to stand for cracks about
the apparent fact that everyone who
ever went in one door and out the
other Of tho University of Mime
sofa Immediately designated himself
or herself as a pledge to sorority
or fraternity. There have been some
hard feelings due to quarrels on the
subject. Outsiders have been litter
ing discreetly about it for some time
Intercollegiate club Topped last
year because by the time all the high
school graduates and former students
of the former college students became
members, the active college students
were lost in the scramble. The club
formed to sid cooperation between
students of the different colleges in
the Twin Cities didn't last long be-
cause high school graduates had
never been to college, and consequent
ly weren't really interested in the
collegiate nature of the club; former
students, many who had been in school
only short time, weren't really inter-
ested because many of them knew
they did not have any intentions of re-
turning to school. The only ones vitally
interested in the welfare of the club
were the active students, and they
were so darned disgusted with the
whole affair that they didn't care
whether it panned out or not.
Last week l put in the column that
the Ivy Leaf club was dropping girls
who had been out of school two quar-
ters. What a hullabuloo it started!
I have found out since that the rul-
ing on the subject calls for three
quarters of non-activity, but never
.theless there is limit. 1t seems that
such restrictions are kept floating
around in mid-air just to keep from
hurting feelings and trampling on
toes. White organizations implicitly
adhere to such things, regardless of
personal feelings. An organization,
to be respected, must draw lines.
If a university education is doing
nothing else for the Negro youth of
today, it is showing them more and
more clearly the limitations of this
race of ours, it is revealing how petty
things such as this easily stir people
up, but the big, important things
vitality affecting the welfare of the
race, are left to go unheeded, but
most of all, it is giving them the
ambition and the desire to overcome
these obstacles and to make race
of which every Negro can be justly
proud.
Negro college students are draw
ing closer together. They feel COM
mon bond which outsiders never will
be able to understand. Those who are
envious, jealous or ignorant, call it
being 'hincty," call college students
"high hat" It is neither; it is the
realization that this race needs to be
pulled out of the .nire of ignorance
and intolerance, and more than that,
the realization that education is the
only means of doing it.
If it is going to make certain peo-
pie angry when they see college stu
dents drawing lines in their organiza-
tions, some of 'em are going to stay
mad from now on, because if the
conversations l have overheard and
taken part in among colored campus
students have any meaning at all,
lot of things are going to be different
around here from now on, and it's
not going to do anyone bit of good
to go around looking down in the
mouth about it, or throwing charges
of "hincty." If it's "hincty" to go to
school and try to get the intellectual
training necessary to straighten this
race out, l sincerely regret lot more
of the racial youth around these two
towns aren't "hincty."