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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1055
Number 10
BIEL ENSLEY SCORES TWO
Mercer’s Frank Clements Attempts Defense
Georgia Trims Mercer
In Home Debut, 75-72
The Georgia Bulldogs took an early lead in their game with the
Mercer Bears last night and nursed it to a 7.5-72 triumph in Athens’
Woodruff Hall
In their first home debut of the
season, the Georgians were on the
short end of the score only once
when the Bears scored the first bas
ket of the evening.
Sophomore guard Ray Allen led
the Red and Black off with a quick
Dormitory Opening,
Winter Registration
Scheduled Jan. 2, 3
Dormitories will be re opened for
winter quarter at 4 p.m., Jan. 2, and
registration will be held all day Jan.
3, Housing Director John D. Storey
and Registrar W. N. Danner have
announced.
Dormitories will be closed for
Christmas holidays at 10 a.m., Dec.
17, Storey said.
In regard to registration, Danner j
said it will be helpful to everyone
concerned if students will come to
Stegeman Hall at the designated time
and line up orderly in the lines pro
vided for their classes.
He also requested that students
not stand in a long line at the treasu
rer’s office. He pointed out that the
Chapel bell will be rung when there
is a small number of students in the
line.
During winter quarter Saturday
classes are scheduled for Jan. 7 and
Jan. 14.
University Students Hold
Two Mass Demonstrations
10 point splurge which built a 16-3
bulge early in the game. The visitors
countered to slice the deficit to 21-
19 midway the first half but big Bill
Ensley took the reins to lead his Bull
dog teammates to a 43-34 halftime
lead.
Mercer didn’t offer a serious threat
in the second half until the clock
showed three minutes remaining in
the contest, at which time they closed
the gap from 10 points to three at
the final buzzer.
Ensley was high man with 28
markers, followed by Allen with 14
and Morris Winwiddie and Curt
Gleaton with eight each.
Mercer’s attack was paced by
Wooky Richardson with 24, Cary
Moore with 19 and Roger Bolton with
14.
Mabrey Named
R & B Editor
Southerland Re-eleeted;
Three Others Seleeted
Bill Mabrey, Atlanta, yesterday
was elected winter quarter editor
of The Red and Black by The Red
and Black Board of Control.
Mabrey succeeds Remer Tyson,
Statesboro, as editor.
James Souther-
la n d, Hawkins-
ville, was re-elect
ed business man
ager. The board
elected James
Wynn, Canton,
news editor. Mil
dred Sparks, Com-
merce, woman’s
editor, and Tyson
was elected sports
editor.
Positions of
society editor and
circulation manager were not filled.
The board will meet before the first
winter quarter Red and Black edi
tion is published to elect a managing
editor and a circulation manager.
The board’s executive committee
will appoint a society editor.
Mabrey transferred to the Univer
sity fall quarter, 1954, from Young
Harris College. At Young Harris he
was editor, business manager, associ
ate editor and editor emeritus of the
Enotah Echoes, Young Harris’s stu
dent newspaper.
The Board of Control congratu
lated the fall quarter staff for a Job
well done during the quarter.
Honor Society To Bcjiin
Stiiilent Directory Sales
Th( 1955-56 Student-Faculty
Directory has been printed, and
sales began this week, according
to Don Page, Thomaston, who is
in charge of circulation of the
book.
The directories are being sold
at the Book Store, Co-Op, Jen
nie Belle and by members of
Blue Key, national honor fra
ternity, which publishes the book
each year. Copies are 50 cents
each.
Bill Morris, Augusta, and Ed
die Calhoun, are editor and busi
ness manager, respectively, of
this year’s directory.
By
Mabrey
managing editor,
SET J AN, 1. 5
Lniversity Theatre Plans
"Romeo and Juliet ’ Tryouts
Tryouts for “Romeo and Juliet,” University Theatre’s winter pro
duction, will be Jan. 4. 5, announced Dr. James E. Popovich, director.
Tryouts are not limited to students
of speech and drama. Any student in
the University interested in acting is
Christmas Program
Singers, Hath *w
Planned for Sunday
A Christmas carol service will be
presented Sunday at 4 p.m. in Fine
Arts auditorium, John Anderson,
women's Glee Club director, said yes
terday.
The program will feature 150
voices of the Women’s Glee Club.
They will sing "A Ceremony of Car
ols” by Benjamin Britten, an Eng
lish composer.
Dr. Leighton M. Ballew, speech and
drama department head, will read
Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Car
ol.” The Madrigal Choir, a smaller
choir of selected singers will assist
in the presentation. The Madrigal
Choir receives its name from light
music selections called Madrigals
which were sung in the 16th cen-
jtury.
The Brass Choir will render a num
ber of Christmas selections. The pro
gram will end with the audience
joining in singing u number of well-
known Christmas carols.
Four Expelled
liy Authorities
In Campus Riot
By Remer Tyson
A crowd of University students,
on two successive nights, this
week staged demonstrations in
down-town Athens and at the
women dormitories on Ag Hill.
Four students have been dismissed
from the University, Dean of Men
William Tate told The Red and Black
yesterday.
Two of the students were expelled
for their parts in the panty raid Mon-,
day night, Tate suid. A third student
was dismissed for drunkness and dis
orderly conduct. Another was ex
pelled for reckless driving and speed
ing during tho Tuesday night dem
onstration, according to Tate.
Names of the four students will not
be disclosed, Tate stated.
Editor’s Note: A picture panel
of Monday night's demonstration
appears on page two in this issue
of The Red and Black.
ODK Initiates Six
In Chapel Program
Six men were initiated into the
University chapter of Omicron Delta
Kappa, national honorary fraternity
They are Bob Henry, Harry Lightsey,
Joe Marshall, Billy Bob Mellen, Bill
Morris and Marvin Zion.
The neophytes were inducted at
formal initiation ceremonies in the
Chapel. Following the initiation, the
organization held a dinner meeting
at Davis Brothers Cafeteria.
Membership in Delta Kappa Is re
stricted to junior and senior men
with at least a 78 average who have
earned a minimum of 10 points in
at least three activities on the ODK
point list. Points are earned for work
in scholarship, social leadership, pub
lications, athletics, music and fo
rensics and military and miscellan
eous.
Bell Named to ‘Who’s Who’
Gharles Bell, Athens, has been
named to ’’Who's Who Among Stu
dents in American Colleges and Uni
versities.” Bell’s name was acciden
tally omitted from the story in last
week's issue of The Red and Black.
eligible to tryout. There are parts for
19 men and four women.
Women’s tryouts will be held Jan.
4, at 7:15 p.m. in the Laboratory
Theatre in the basement corridor of
Fine Arts building.
Men’s tryouts will be held Thurs
day, Jan. 5, at 7:15 p.m., in the Lab
oratory Theatre.
Anyone who cannot meet at the.
stated times may contact Dr. Popo
vich of the speech and drama depart
ment before Thursday, Jan. 5.
“Romeo and Juliet,” the seventh
annual Shakespearean production by
the University Theatre, deals with
the feud between the Montague and
Capulet families. Romeo, a Mon-
McCorkle Named President
Of Gridiron Secret Society
Jake McCorkle, Buena Vista, has
been elected winter quarter president
of Gridiron Secret Society. He sue- j
ceeds Quentin Gabriel, Athens. Frank
Seiler, Savannah, will continue to
serve as secretary-treasurer of the
organization.
Eleven student neophytes and 18
honoraries were initiated to Gridiron
last week. Initiation ceremonies are
held quarterly.
The new student members are Hilly
Davis, Jack Henderson, Bob Henry, 1
Bob Langstaff, Harry Lightsey, Dick
Sanner, Len Spadafino, Frank Trout- j
man, Remer Tyson, Charlie Walker |
and Earl Waller.
tague, falls in love with Juliet, a Cap
ulet, but their families refuse to let
them marry. From this situation
comes Juliet's famous speech,
“What’s in a name? A rose by any
other name would smell as sweet.
Doff thy name . . .” “Romeo and
Juliet” has been called the greatest
love story in western literature.
Senior Invitation Sale*
To Start at HcgiMtralion
Seniors will bo able to order
this year’s invitations during
registration. Senior Class Presi
dent Norman Fletcher,. Fitz
gerald, announced this week.
There will be a table in
Stegeman Hall Jan. 3, where
seniors may place their orders,
Fletcher said.
He urges seniors to order in
vitations early in order to re
ceive them some time before
graduation.
Monday night, an estimated 1,500
to 2,000 students gathered in front
of the arch at 11 p.m. Several hun
dred students paraded through Ath
ens waving a "For Once, We’re for
Tech” banner.
They returned to the Confederate
Memorial statue and sang "Glory,
Glory to Old Georgia”—chanted an
ti-Griffin chants, und blocked Broad
street traffic.
This part of the demonstration was
apparently a delayed student expres
sion toward Gov. Marvin Griffin’s
proposal to bar institutions In the
University System from participating
against integrated institutions in ath
letic contests.
Shortly after 12 M. the students
headed for women dormitories on
Ag Hill. A vain attempt was made
by a minority of the students to get
a panty ruid underway but the move
failed to materialize.
Two students were caught after
having entered Mary Lyndon and
Rutherford Halls, Dean Tate said.
One student was expelled on the spot,
and the other was dismissed from
the University Tuesday.
Women students inside the dormi
tories urged the crowd on, and began
throwing “undie” articles out win-
(Continued on page 5)
Literary Societies Elect New Officers;
Page, Scheer Win Presidential Posts
Don l’ago, Athens, and Geor
and I’hi Kappa Literary Societ
DON PAGE
New Demosthenian Head
pre Scheer, Eatonton, last night were elected president of Demosthenian
ies, respectively.
m&. Page succeeds Bob Henry and
Scheer succeeds Andy Heyward as
jj president. Other Demosthenian offi-
;ip cers elected are John O’Toole, vice
(| president; Avant Edenfleld, seere-
L tary-treasurer, and Earl Waller, cus-
jn todian. Wallace Hill was elected to
fill the vacancy of judicial council
fl associate justice. Henry took over
H as sergeant-at-arms by tradition.
Other officers elected at the Phi
Kappa meeting are Bill Searcy, first
vice president; Robert Kaden, second
vice president; Giles O'Neal, secre
tary; Emmet Bondurant, treasurer;
Sherrill Kelly, chief Justice, and Jake
Behr, sergeant-at-arms.
These officers are elected to serve
E one quarter. This was the final meet
ing of the quarter and the next meet-
|t>V ing is scheduled for Jan. 4.
Demosthenian’s next president,
Fl Page, appointed Jack Jacques as ad-
;. latus, parliamentary and president
advisor. Page presented Henry, out
going president, with a gavel as a GEORGE SCHEER
tradition. Phi Kappa President
