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* 1 1 HE Administrative Faculty Council this
-*■ week spoiled the chances of having the
biggest Tech pep rally ever seen at the Uni
versity.
The Council voted unanimously against a pe
tition from the Pep Club to dismiss classes
from 10:30 n.m. to 11:30 a.m., Nov. 22, to have
a Tech pep rally.
Dean of Faculties Alvin Riscoe said the pe
tition was voted down because the administra
tive faculty members did not feel that students
would return to classes at 11 :30 a.m. and that
laboratories which could not be dismissed, are
held during third and fourth periods.
At the Council meeting no student was pres
ent to,propose and argue the students’ view
point. The petition was presented by a faculty
member—and it was bluntly Vetoed.
There is no appeal for the students—no
fiance for mediation between the faculty and
student body.
We believe there should be some means by
which students can at least voice their opinions.
Of course Student Council was set up for this
purpose. However, Student Council is merely an
official “prestige list” as it has proved by its
interest and action in student affairs.
We believe a system is needed where students
and faculty members could discuss situations
concerning both student and faculty interests.
We believe such a system would foster better
school spirit and would help to eliminate many
petty problems that are often made into con
troversial ones.
Also, we have been pondering what would
happen if all students cut classes third and
fourth periods Nov. 22 and had an enormous
Tech pep rally.
A Change, or No Deal
T T NIVKltSITY students and other Bulldog
^ football fans, fed up with having to travel
hundreds of miles each yenr to see the (leorgia-
Florida grid battle, may get a chance to wit
ness the next renewal of the ancient rivalry
in Sanford Stadium.
Coach Wally Rutts said this week that un
less Florida agrees to a home-and-home basis
for the games or works out a suitable financial
deal, the series will he ended. He made it clear
that Georgia does not intend to renew the
present contract, which calls for the game to
be played in Jacksonville each year, with Flor
ida acting as the home team.
We sincerely hope that Coach Rutts is able
to work out a suitable home-and-home series
with Florida. We would hate to see the games
diseontinued, but we feel, like Coach Rutts,
that the present setup is not fair to the stu
dents, the team, or the Athletic Association
budget.
We are concerned most of gll about its un
fairness to the students. It.simply is not right
to ask students to go out of town every year
to see two of the most important games on the
schedule. The other game referred to is the
Auburn game, played annually in Columbus.
Coach Rutts also expressed a desire to see this
scries changed to a home-and-home rivalry.
We would like to urge Coach Rutts to con
tinue his efforts to arrange games with Flor
ida and Auburn in Athens. We hope college
football on this campus hasn’t become such big
business that the interests of the students—the
very group represented by the team won’t be
neglected entirely.
Rr.Mr.it Ttbon
Editor
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B«*tnrrt Manager
Bin. Mabhby
Managing Editor
Bii.lt Dilworth
Sews Editor
Carrol IVaiiismat
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Miohon Franklin
Mii.ohmi Sparks
I Mm a Dl AH
Burt McRurmey
i!rnk Carroll
Marais Hill
Hael Simpkins
Rat Mitchell
Carl Kaufman
Don Thompson
Alex MacDonald
— — _ Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Women'* Editor
Society Editor
Feature Editor
Assistant Sexes Editor
Assistant Sexes Editor
Assistant Sexes Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
Photographer
Photographer
Cartoonist
CirmJafion Manager
Burinfss Stait: Beth Andrews. Barbara McAIptn,
Harmon Barnard.
Sports Staff: Horace Thom. Curtis Drtskell. Jules
Arbose, Jeanette Jackson, Anne Shepard.
RaroRTi KN Gene Owens. Helen Lanier. Joey Sawalxke.
Elisabeth Marshall. Murrow Morris. Anne Sultt-
▼an, J. J. Newberry. Marion Smith, Connie
Hayes, Marcia Whitworth, Carol Craven, Har
riett Schretber, Catherine Patton, Robert Hol
den.
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FRESHMAN
.ELECTION
And They Charge Again
Readers' Opinions
George Expresses Gratitude
The Hcd and Black Editor:
.John Carlton has forwarded me a copy of the editorial published
in your Oct. 20 issue, and I want to express to you and your associates
mv warm gratitude for the compliments you pay me therein.
I do not deserve all of the things
that you say about my abilities but
I want you to know that this ex
pression of your high regard heartens
and strengthens my resolve to con
tinue to work to the extent of my
ability for a stronger and finer Unit-
Campus Police Actions
Criticised by Student
The Red and Black Editor:
Oct. 24 I parked in the small lot
next to the Infirmary. This was about
II a.m. I returned to my car at 2:30
p.m. and found that I was blocked
In by a 104 8 Plymouth which had
double parked behind me.
1 wax in a hurry so I looked at the
car to see If 1 could move It. It was
locked and I was unable to roll It
hark.
Much to my relief I saw a campus
policeman on llerty drive. 1 walked
over to him and told him of my dif
ficulty. He returned to the parking
lot with me.
lie took one look at the Plymouth
which displayed a faculty parking
permit and much to my dismay be
gan Inspecting my automobile. He
did everything within his power to
find something wrong with the way
1 had parked. He checked to see If
1 had crossed one of the yellow di
viding lines in the lot. Then he look
ed at my parking permit and checked
to see if I had an Athens city tag
displayed on my car.
Finally he decided that this was
one student who could not be given
a ticket and remarked that he
thought the cur behind me belonged
to one of the nurses in the Infirmary.
About that time a nurse stuck her
head out one of the Infirmary win
dows and asked if anyone wanted to
get out. I replied and she came down
and moved her car so I could get out.
Her only explanation was that she
Just was never able to find a park
ing space and had to park where she
could. •
The policeman said nothing and
gave the nurse no ticket for illegal
parking. However, he did manage to
go directly to several student cars
parked In front of Denmark Hall
tthero was plenty of room to park
but for some reason there is a yellow
line there) and wrote out his little
white tickets.
Is the faculty immune from park
ing regulations? Maybe the nurse
should have a private space reserved
for her. but if she docs not, she is
no better, than anyone else so tar as
searching for a parking space.
The campus policeman could do
a little better Job in handing out
parking tickets, considering the acute
parking shortage.
Jerry Grayson
ed States of America and for a more
stable and happier world.
Permit me to comment that in my
opinion there is significance In your
recognition through your editorial
columns that major problems face
the world and that a student at the
University of Georgia has a responsi
bility for what happens to the state
and nation. There are callous oppor
tunists who do not take these for
ward looking views but I am pleased
to say that for the most part our
young people of today are not In that
category. My own political future is
not Important hut the nation and the
world do need high principles and
vision.
Walter F. George
Student Asks R & B
To Print Only Facts
The Red and Black Editor:
Regarding your article titled, "How
We Feel"—(Nov. 3. 1955) such I
quote: "Now the bias—we certainly
express our opinions to influence The
Red and Black readers—after we
have thoroughly investigated and
nnulyzed the situation. To readers
who think this wrong, we respect
your opinion—at the same time we
believe ours.” The underlying moti
vation of your statement is properly
lost to time. We, the readers, only
request unbiased investigations,
analyses, and such argumentative
features as may obtrude from care
ful examination. We request facts—
not opinions. Credit the temporal
student with the capacity for inte
gration.
In explanation of this letter mine
is the opinion that you possess an
excellent college paper, a condition
that invites hypercritical watchful
ness.
Robert V. Wheeler
Society To Debate
On Talmadge Book
The Red and Black Editor:
Demosthenian Literary Society is
presently engaging in debate over
Herman Talmadge’s book, “You and
Segregation.” A motion Is now pend
ing that the book be condemned. We
feel that the subject matter of the
book and the pending motion should
he discussed further. Therefore, it
was the society's desire that an in
vitation be sent to all male students
on the campus, encouraging them to
come to Demosthenian Hall Wednes
day at 7 p.m. and voice their opinion
about the subject. We certainly hope
to have the students participate In
this controversial matter of "You
and Segregation."
Donald A. Page
Demosthenian Secretary
Remer Tyson
“Twenty-Fifth Hour”
I read a hook. It is entitled "Twenty-Fifth Hour!”
The hook was passed on to me by a friend who
has received it from one of his friends. My friend's
friend bought the book in a “sales pile" in a dry-
goods store for less than half price.
Events in the book took place all over Europe,
during World War II and during the post war days.
The book's content is a bitter battle between in
dividuality and mechanism.
The twenty-fifth hour is
when machines conquer man
and make him a slave. Man is
reduced to something lower
than a machine—in mind in
action—in thought. His only
aim is precision. He wishes to
accomplish nothing more.
In the fatal hour man has no
creative initiative, no imagina
tion and no desire to possess
such. He is a machine. Nothing
matters but mass production.
Machines came to dominate the human race by
slowly integrating with man, according to the plot.
Machines became a part of society and soon they
were using man’s own useful characteristics against
him. It was only a matter of waiting, as machines
often do, before man became the recessive charac
ter and machines took over.
To most people the hook is an extreme fantasy—
they may pass it by without a thought. If so, the
book proves a point, man is ceasing to think.
Is it possible that we are slowly being integrated
with machines? Are we becoming victims of com
placency—satisfied to let machines do all of our
work and to supply our needs, without even giving
it a thought? Are we slowly becoming slaves to ma
chines?
As humans look about them—what do they see
without fail—a machine or a product of a machine.
Thought may be a mighty weapon in the next war.
Of College Journalism
(Editor’s note: The following editorial appear
ed originally in "The Emory Wheel” of Emory
University. It was picked up by The Associated
Collegiate Press and sent to college newspapers
throughout the nation. The editorial was reprint
ed in The Daily Texan of the University of
Texas.)
The primary purpose of any newspaper, whether
it exists on a college campus or in a large city, is
to report the news. The news should be reported
in a manner free from bias and not slanted. . . .
This is by no means a new thing. The Wheel has
for years attempted to report the news about life
on campus as clearly and honestly as possible. We
believe that we have succeeded in this attempt.
Yet the coverage of campus news is not the only
field in which the Wheel Is active. With each issue
we take stands through out editorial pages, on
various problems both on and off campus.
If a school decided to do away with freedom of
the student press, it might as well do away with
academic freedom. If it told the newspaper what
to print, what would keep the school from telling
professors what they should say in class or stu
dents what books they should read? We don’t be
lieve, however, that such a situation would ever
occur at Emory.
The Wheel has never claimed to reflect the opin
ion of the student body of the University. That
would be an impossibility. It would necessitate a
poll of every student before taking any major edi
torial stand. The Wheel attempts to serve the stu
dent body, but It will not be reduced to a tool
when It feels the majority Is at fault. Neither do
we propose to assert the policy of Emory Univer
sity in our editorials when we feel the University
Is wrong.
We Invite agreement or disagreement with our
editorial stands. We are not trying to force our
opinions on anyone. As we see It, we have one edi
torial mission ... to cause our readers to think
about what we say.
We Wonder . ..
If it’s true that, since the Supreme Court has
ruled segregation on public beaches unconstitu
tional. Gov. Marvin Griffin really is going to try
to close the Atlantic Ocean.
• • • •
How gome University professors can demand
that students be so prompt with all outside assign
ments and. at the same time, be so late themselves
In returning test papers.
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If Dusty writes parking tickets in his sleep.
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When the Dean of Women's office is going to
wake up to the realisation that you can’t dictate
a person's morsls.