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Reckless Driving
A condition of recent concern to parents liv
ing in the prefabs is that of reckless driving
in their vicinity.
Reports of residents in the area indicate a
lack nf proper caution on the part of drivers
even though several speedbreakers have been
placed on the streets i?i an unsuccessful attempt
to slow down those who consistently disregard
speed limit laws.
There is a need for concern on this subject
because of the number of children who play
on sidewalks and nearby. A petition was re
ccntlv circulated by a representative of one
campus orgaui/ation after a child was struck
by a speeding automobile It was signed by
residents of the area, but so far. little has been
accomplished toward any improvement.
With building of additional dormitories near
the area, traffic will probably become more
congested than it now is.
The Red and Black suggests an investigation
by the University Traffic Council in this mat
ter,
Letters to the Editor
Dear Kditor
A friend sent me The Red and Black, issue
April '2H, with the front page editorial, “Athens
Story Twisted,” and 1 wish to commend you
for this forthright approach to the present at
tack of The Atlanta Constitution on Athens and
the University.
It is regrettable that these people would pick
this time when the University is completing its
mammoth science center to give us a black
eye
1 ain certainly not in accord with slot
machines, (one arm bandits), but I can’t see
what the men and women at the University
have to do with them. There has always been
some prostitution and gambling at Athens. It
should be stamped out, but these vices are not
sponsored and fostered by the students of the
University.
1 wish you success in vonr endeavors, and if
1 can help in any way at any time, please call
on me.
Marvin Griffin
Former Governor of Georgia
Kditor:
Your front page editorial in last week’s
paper in my opinion is the best article I have
read this year. I feel you have analyzed the
situation logically with full understanding and
intelligence, which is more than 1 can say for
other, “so called writers."
As a student, I want to thank you for show
ing that the University is not to be lowered by
some “hot rod” news reporter. You have seen
the loop holes in this new episode and very
brilliantly exposed them in your editorial.
1 know that 1 do not have a full understand
ing of the world of journalism and T do not
mean to he degrading Mr. Nelson, because he
has attained a notable status, but even so, I
do not appreciate his narrow mindedness con
cerning his remarks about the University of
Georgia.
Martha Ann llighsmith
Editor:
I would like to know why University women
living in dorms must pay a fee for the privilege
of having an overnight guest t
The rate for student visitors is $1.00 to $1.50
per night depending on whether or not linens
are furnished This charge even applies to
University sorority women and practice tea
chers who visit overnight in the dorms. Yisi
tors usually sleep in unoccupied students’
rooms Thej do not use University linens.
Thus, they are no extra work or added ex
pense for the University.
The University is the only college 1 have
ever visited where a “hotel rate" is charged.
Guests from other colleges have never heard
of this It is embarrassing to ask our friends
to pay and expensive to pay ourselves.
Women students pay $75 dorm fee quarterly
This is as much as a student would pay for a
room in town where she would be free to have
weekend guests without charge. However, as
a woman student is not allowed to live iu town,
she must live in University residences and con
form to the “pay for guests” rule—or be sent
to main court.
With these thoughts in mind, 1 can’t justify
the University's policy concerning overnight
guests. The visitor fee is clearly a costly and
unnecessary charge.
Sally F. (’aire
“If THEY can wear bermudas , . . . ?
David Parkman
Community Life Doomed?
Is community life doomed In Geor
gia? As our society goes from the
rural to the urban, from the Indi
vidualistic to the masslzed, our com
munities and neighborhoods may lose
their Importance altogether.
It is true that we are becoming a
more urban society everyday. Only
10 per cent of our population In
this country Is now dependent on
the farm solely for u living. The
large cities are spreading out and are
enveloping towns for miles around.
U s u al 1 y we
folks from t h e
small towns view
this situation with
great alarm, es
pecially th o s e
from communities
of less than 1,000
population. There
Is the community
center, school, and
church, forming a
social group that
can never be found In a large city.
However, we have to consider some
of the advantages of a larger group
society.
The matter of education is one of
great Importance. Most small com
munities are very reluctant to give
up their schools. They may have a
difficult time meeting the Georgia
luw of 100 average daily attendance
and have a slim curriculum for stu
dents, but feel loss of their school
would ruin the community.
Many counties have made progress
In school consolidation. It not only
affords wider curriculums, which are
chiefly necessary for preparing stu
dents who will not go to college, but
It Is economical. It would often re
place shabby school buildings still
using pot-bellied stoves with modern
buildings more conductive to learn
ing. There are many rural schools
in this state with little or no library
facilities, and very few have labora
tories for science courses which are
becoming more important.
A prominent leader in the field of
education says every high school, to
best prepare its students for their
future, shouldl have at least 400 stu
dents and 75 graduates a year. He
said this would afford a broad cur
riculum for those who would enter
college, hut would even be more
valuable to students going to work
after high school. In Uie curriculum,
he sees a need for typing, shorthand,
home economics, sociology, industrial
arts, and mechanics which many
small schools can’t offer.
• • •
WILLIAM TATE, dean of men at
the University, was asked to compare
quality of University students from
small high schools with that of stu
dents from large schools. He said
there is very little difference between
students who attended schools with
over 200 enrollment, but below that,
they generally have more difficulty
in college.
So It appears the community may
have to scacrlfice to some extent for
the sake of better educating leaders
of tomorrow.
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JOE ZELLNER
Managing Editor
Chris Foster
Ionic Dku.ixcer
I.inda Crt.toM
Cakoi. Luro
Terry Harm.wood
Caroi. Lupo
Becky Nash
Alan \Vexi.kr
Ken Barnes
Lorax Smith
Bill ItosEMIERl.
DAVID PARKMAN
Editor
LOWELL KIRBY
Business Manager
RANDY JAY
News Editor
Sports Editor
Women's Editor
Society Editor
.. Feature Editor
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News State: Marcia Powell, Ken Barnes, John Newsome, John LaRosch,
Kathryn Floyd, Ann Sasser. Eugenia Jolly, Bill Beland, Pat
Daniels, Linda Holbrook, Devara Felson, Billy Cornelius
George Watts, Loran Smith, Ken Skuse, Mary Helen Hicks,
Chris Botsaris
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Colwell, Georgia Dixon, Carolyn Welch, Carol Case, Charlotte
Matheson, Sandra Alley, Nancy Eberhart, Susy Stewart. Pat
llarling, and Patsy Vaughn.
Storts Start: Alan Wexler, Doug Hawley. John Newsome. Cary Williams,
Frank Bernhard. Tommy Johnson, Jenny Warllck, Brenda
Tipton, and Loran Smith
Entered it the Post Office in Athens. Georgia, as Mall Matter of the Second
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Joe Zellner
Ballyhoo!
You're Jack Nelson, ace reporter for The Atlanta
Constitution. You've been assigned to Athens,
Georgia—mission: Investigation of vice (gambl
ing—slot machine operators, a slot machine fac
tory, prostitution, and other illegal procedures).
This is Athens, home of the oldest chartered
state university, a school with a fine reputation
and one which has come a long way in the past
few years with the addition of new buildings and
new facilities, an improved faculty, and a larger,
more select student body.
You have uncovered a lot of
information on alleged sins In
the Classic City, and you are
ready to swing the axe. Vice is
bad, and you have enough evi
dence to clear up this vice. You
begin your series.
You have a number of ways to
present the results of your in
vestigation, but the one you
select must be the one that will lift more eyebrows,
draw more comments, and sell more newspapers.
Your first concern is ballyhoo. So you look
around. There’s the University and its more than
6,000 students from all parts of the state. You
ran across a very few students playing slot
machines, saw possibly one or two at a house of
prostitution, and found cne drinking beer.
One man has reported to you that he has seen
over 200 students engaging in these activities. You
figure that there are others, probably about three
to five per cent, of the student body. That’s a
small percentage, but you won't say that. It will
sound much more sensational and sell so many
papers.
You don’t consider the other 95 per oent who
don’t do these things. You aren’t concerned about
them, their reputations, and the reputation of
their school in the eyes of all Georgians. The few
who do these things are the ones you decided to
train the Constitution’s famous expose guns upon.
You hold it in your power to hurt the reputa
tion of a fine institution or to handle the story
in such a way that the good points of the University
are shown to outweigh the few discreditable points
of Athens. But you choose the former, your custo
mary method. You’re not giving anything, you’re
taking. You have the “South's Standard News
paper” behind you, and besides that you are Jack
Nelson, big name prize winner, and sensationalism
is your forte.
Carol Lupo
Excuse, Max!
With apologies to a writer who created Dobie
G111 is, a barefooted boy with a cheek, flagpoles
to rally round, and first instituted the practice
of sleeping ’til noon—1 write this column. ,
Contrary to local opinion, Max Shulman is not
a member of The licit ami Black staff. Because
students are given to read his column aud ignore
the other portions of the paper, I feel called upon
to match the wit. Witness:
As everyone knows, ' 190,333,022 persons flock
annually to the carpets—to play
miniature golf. Why?
Let us examine the case of the
190,333,022nd person to flock
last year — Percy Phllibuste
Sigafoos. Percy was an agile
youth, fair of face form and
fingernails. A sensuous lad, he
was not given to standing aside,
letting the tide toss him about.
Instead, when irate, he would mount a soap
box, festooned in chains of linked cigar bands,
and dissertate at length on how his playmates were
in a state of deeayance, physical unfittness, and
lack of energy Then, his adatn's apple ripping,
he would shout, “Run out and Play. Play foot
ball. play basketball, play "bowl," play boys, or
play girls. Hey!"
Because he was fair, he could not play basket
ball. Be-ause he was fair of fingernails, he could
not play “bowl" as he kept breaking his thumb
nail. which directly caused him to suck his thumb
to comfort it. After which his mother stuffed
black pepper under his thumbnail. Therefore, he
could not play girls, because they always gagged
when they sweetly nibbled his fingers. He could
not play boys because his playmates were wary of
roving adarn’s apples. And because he was always
drapped ill cigai bands, the football and other
athletic coaches believed him to be a smoking man
(Shulman would probably get fired for that
crack. Hut I digress.)
Percy's wrath was so great that he picked up
the nearest blunt insturment and proceeded to
thrash himself. A bell boy singing "Grand Canyon
Suite” stopped him and offered a Flip Morris which
perked him up. Then the little bell boy pointed
out that he should be playing miniature with that
club.
So now you know.