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Buy A Dinner
r T HE World University Students fund drive
will open Tuesday nifflit with a kiok-off
banquet in Storeman Hall. It is an annual drive
sponsored by University students to raise money
for needy students attending universities
throughout the world.
The funds are used to provide better medieal
treatment and care for foreign students attend
ing colleges in their homelands—to provide lit
erary and art works for them to study and to
help supply them with much needed facilities
and buildings.
Perhaps, the most important use of the funds
is the fostering of international relationship
and understanding among today’s students—
who will be tomorrow’s world leaders.
Those leaders will chart the world’s future
course—a course that could be made smoother
by people of each nntion, if they have a better
understanding of their fellow countrymen.
The University last year contributed more
to the fund than any other institution in the
world. University students who are spearhead
ing the drive this year are seeking a repeat per
formance.
We recommend that you buy a WUS spa
gbetti dinner Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., in Stage-
man nail. We believe it will help make the
world a better and safer place in which to live.
A Band Anew
Southern Dignity and No Busses
HP HE halftime program at last weekend’s
Homecoming game provided what might be
called an “acid test” for the University’s new
Dixie Redcoat Hand, Georgettes and Dancing
Majorettes.
They were matched on the same bill with
Alabama’s Million-Dollnr Hand, and we think
they held their own. As has been the ease at
every home game this year, the group chalked
up another “job very well done.”
The tremendous strides made by the bnnd
this yenr is a good example of what can be ac
complished when energetic students are match
ed with the right kind of instructors—instruc-
ors with young ideas, open minds and a lot of
imagination.
Basically, the band’s grent success this year
rests on the interest nnd work of every indi
vidual in it, but the ones who really gave the
g roup new life are Mr. and Mrs. Roger L.
lanex, new band directors.
Mr. and Mrs. Danez came to the University
to revive a dead bnnd—a bnnd that could be
shnmed by many liigb school bands of the state
—and revive it they did. They turned ench mem
ber into a showman, and replaced halftime “fill
ers” nt footbnll games with spirited, refreshing
entertainment.
We commend every member of the Redcoat
Rand, Georgettes and Dancing Majorettes for
putting in a lot of work to give us a good show,
and Mr. nnd Mrs. Dnnoz for proving that no
orgnnizniton is unrevivnble when it is given
the right kind of leadership.
How We Feel
* |' 11E Red and Black has been accused of be-
ing immoral and biased in its editorial col
umn. The charges were made by letters to the
editor, which have been printed.
Several letter writers also stated we should
not enter political controversy outside the Uni
versity.
As for our immorality and steering clear of
off-campus politics, we will gladly listen to ar
guments supporting these ideas. We haven’t
heard any yet.
Now the bias—we certainly express our opin
ions to influence Red and Black readers after
we have thoroughly investigated and analyzed
the situation. To renders who think this wrong,
wfc respect your opinion—at the same time we
believe ours.
Rr.un Tvsoh
Editor
James Soptheblard
Bsiinets Manager
Bill Mabbey
Managing Editor
R11.1.T Dilworti!
Sev* Editor
Cabeol Dadismah _ Associate Editor
James Wynn Sporta Editor
Mionon Franklin Women'! Editor
Mildred Sparks Society Editor
Inula Dean Feature
Burt McRtrney Assistant Seva Editor
Gem Carroll Assistant Seva Edtior
Marvin Hut .4f!<«tanf Seva Editor
Earl Simpkins Assistant Sport! Editor
Rat MlTCBRLL Photographer
Carl Kaitman Photographer
Dos Thompson Cartoonist
Alex MacDonald Cirowlafion Manager
Readers Opinions
Editorial Termed Bias
In last week s issue of The Red and Black a student by the name of
Roseoe Dean Jr. expressed his opinion against; an editorial you wrote
in behalf of Senator George’s anticipated campaign.
I am a great admirer of Senator
George and have been since I was
old enough to reason political issues.
I feel that Senator George has done
a wonderful Job in the Senate, and
I am contemplating pledging my sup
port to him if he runs.
However, I agree fully with Dean
that editorial bias should not be
the cause of an editorial campaign.
In my opinion your editorial was cer
tainly bins. A college newspaper
should not take sides in politics. I
believe if you continue to write in
Stop Fighting War,
Pleads Northerner
The lied and Ulack Editor:
In regard to Mignon Franklin's
column in the last issue of The Red
and Black, "Southerners, Northern
ers Need More Mutual Respect,” I
would like to make a few corrections.
First of all, I am a Yankee. It is
my opinion that Miss Franklin has
never come in contact with many
Yankees. She will find that we are
quite human and are not as she has
described us.
I definitely protest Northerners
are the first to "Begin the grinding,
egotistical process of discussing the
War Between the States.” I have
lived in the North, nnd the only time
I have ever heard the War Between
the States discussed was in a his
tory class. In the few months that
I have been in the South I don’t be
lieve a single day has gone by that
1 didn't hear some argument about
the Civil War.
There may a be a few Yankees who
take a "superior attitude over the
fact that we (the Southerners) en
joy the easy-going way of life in
preference to the rushed and hectic
customs of the North." There is no
excuse for this.
Northerners are also proud people.
We don't like to he pushed around
either. Who does? 1 really have never
noticed the Southerners being push
ed around. It seems to me they have
u mind of their own, nnd use it.
"We are one people under one
flag, nnd If Americans can't offer
consideration and understanding for
one another and be united in heart
and mind as one nation, how can
we attempt to Join others in plans
for peace?" Very good question, but
I didn't realize that it was so serious.
1 really don't believe it is. No one
has tried to rut my throat as yet.
Nor have I tried to cut a Southern
er's. And I won’t.
I love the South, and its people.
You are wonderful, and have a lot
of qualities that the North could do
well with. But please, let's stop fight
ing the war, let's be friends.
Sharan M. Stridde
a partial manner you will do more
harm than good to Senator George.
Other than this editorial, I have
agreed with you on most of your
editorials.
Victor J. McDonald
Reader Thinks Paper
Should Shun Politics
The Red and Black Editor:
I was certainly sorry to read the
one-sided editorial you wrote about
Senator George.
I and my family have great re
spect for the senator, but I agree
with the student that criticized your
editorial. The Red and Black is not
the place for one-sided political edi
torials. In fact, The Red and Black
should not enter into politics at all.
I hope you do not continue writ
ing this kind of editorial because it
will injure the good will you have
created by previous editorials on
other subjects.
James P. Carroll
Reader Lauds Dean,
Thinks Paper Partial
The Red and Black Editor:
To read the article in last week’s
Red and Black by Roseoe Dean in
which he reprimands the staff for
openly expounding their partiality
toward Senator George, one is lead
to the realization that the staff has
been unethical in using the campus
paper in this way.
I am in complete accord with Mr.
Dean in that I, too, am of the opinion
that The Red and Black should be
a campus paper and not an instru
ment to influence college voters in
state politics.
Sallye Cross Mobley
Student Disapproves
Ticket Arrangement
The Red and Black Editor:
Something has come to my atten
tion is the handling of ticket sales
to University students. For instance,
students going to the Auburn game
at Columbus, must purchase receipts
here and then have them redeemed
at Columbus the morning of the
game. Many students can not get to
the stadium early; therefore, they
will get the poorer seats. Standing in
line both here and in Columbus is
an unnecessary inconvenience. Why
was the system changed from last
year? I am not alone in thinking
both of these matters could have been
handled better thap they were. The
students who are supporting the
school and all its various enterprises
arc being neglected when it comes
to the things that students care
about.
John Blau
Billy Dilworth
Diversified Learning
North Georgia mountaineers and South Georgia
flatbushers are receiving an education at the Uni
versity, either directly in classes or by means of
other educational systems.
Mountain-bred students trek to Athens each
fall to pursue another year’s study. And the South
Georgia lowlanders return to the campus for the
same reason.
The University’s Continuing Education Center
is active and plays a vital role more important
than most Georgians first recog
nize.
In evaluating the situation,
one finds that the University
makes available short courses,
conferences and institutes to the
papas and mamas of students in
addition to a choice of subjects
for students themselves.
During the period of Jan. 1,
1954, and June 30, 1955, the
Center for Continuing Education
counted more than 100 short courses, conferences
and institutes on campus which attracted more
than 20,000 people.
Center officials are moving forward in long-
range planning in an effort to help adults keep
pace with society and modern times and also at
the same time maintain contact with University
faculty members. A factor not to be slighted the
least hit is the splendid public relations contact
offered through the mediums of short courses, con
ferences and institutes.
Bankexs, journalists, doctors and farmers take
a breather from important duties to attend these
vital functions. Bankers gain an insight on short
cuts in their field while farmers learn new methods
of tractor attachments and crop achievements.
Frankly the Center for Continuing Education,
together with schools and colleges all across this
big campus, is maintaining contaet with people In
every corner of the state. And the North Georgia
mountaineers and South Georgians return to their
homes to lead the way in teaching homefolks ad
vanced ways in a jet-propelled age.
Like the Center for Continuing Education pamph
lets explain, learning has no limit.
We Wonder ...
How the administration can take so much care
to protect the dignity and conservatism of the
Southern ladies on campus so far as their dress
is concerned (the ruling against the Anthony dance,
for instance), and at the same time do nothing to
keep them from standing on street corners “thumb
ing” rides across town.
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Why some interested students don’t make an at
tempt to revive the old Georgia Cracker or to begin
a new campus humor magazine.
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Whatever happened to the iron horse?
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Why Georgia voters allow our state to operate
under the present completely unfair county unit
system.
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Why we're so afraid som$ freshman will walk
under the arch when it’s easier to walk around it.
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Why the University intramural program doesn't
include a bowling league.
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Why students in many courses are required to
buy thick, expensive ($5 or more) workbooks from
which they use only a few pages during the entire
quarter.
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What people think when they see a group of
young coeds hitch-hiking by a sign marked "Broad
street.”
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Why gome students don’t have the intestinal fort
itude to sign their names to letters to the editor
of The Red and Black.
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Where the dinosaur is that the dinosaur lick in
Fine Arts orchard was constructed for.
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What would happen if everybody in the world
were intoxicated for one year.
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Why Student Council continues to exist.
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Why student ID cards were changed this year.
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Why so many people constantly strive to attain
membership in organizations, and once admitted
never take an active part.