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When h student at the University of Georgia
pays his dormitory fee at the beginning of each
quarter, he lias a right to expert hia own bed,
chair, cheat of drawers, and desk. He is pro
inised hy the University that he will have these
things, hut the promise is not being kept.
Students are living three to a two-man room
in Joe Brown, sleeping in the attic of Payne
Hall, and living in the television room in Reed
Hall. These crowded conditions are inconven
ient, uncomfortable, and confusing.
This situation exists because of the Univer
sity's policy of assigning more men *o live in
a dormitory than the Iniiiding can accommo
date. This is done to insure that the dorm will
he full in the event that some of the students
do not return to school at the beginning of
the quarter. It is a sound policy, but it is not
working this quarter.
Students living under these cramped con
ditions find it is more difficult to study, it is
impossible to invite friends in, and there is
not adequate room to put up personal belong
ings.
Students who had already reserved a room
were informed when they arrived in Athens
that they would have n third roommate ‘‘tem
porarily.” What is meant by this is not, known.
As the first week of school ends, the “tempor
ary” third parties are still installed in the
rooms.
The Red and Black suggests that the Univer
sity housing officials move to eliminate this un
bearable situation in the future. A place
should be found for these students to live,
where they can have the privacy and comfort
to which they are entitled.
If the students are forced to continue to live
as they are at present, the dormitory fee should
lie lowered. The University is now getting one
hundred and eighty-three dollars per quarter
out of rooms which should only cost n total
of one hundred twenty-two dollars.
The University policy of assigning too many
students to a dormitory rIiouM be changed to
insure the living conditions for which each
student pays.
Return From Bedlam
A vote of thanks is due Registrar Walter N.
Danner and his staff, ns well as all others
who participated in last week's registration
procedures.
Thanks to pre-planning on the part of the
instructors and others who sat and handled
class sign-ups Thursday and Friday, and in
telligent anticipation of the prohleins so notori
ous in the past, the hectic hullabaloo which has
come to be associated with the first week of
every quarter was dramatically improved this
time.
Most appreciated of all was the elimination
of the four long cards which have hail to be
filled out, all with the same material, before
the registering students could even get into
second gear. This quarter's carbon copy
registration forms were a relief to everyone.
Praise is definitely due Mr. Danner and his
staff for their material efforts to improve
l egist ration.
Nibbling Administration
It is gratifying to hear from the office of
John fox. Director of Student Activities, that
there are no more plans “at present” to turn
over another campus parking lot for exclusive
faculty use.
The denial of students living in Candler llall
to use their own parking lot came as a shock
last year. Many Candler residents were left
with no alternative but to park blocks away
from their own living quarters in order that
professors and administrative personnel might
come and go as they pleased in the students’
own back yard.
Then, continuing to nibble away at students’
rights, the administration this summer “ab
sorbed” the Co-op parking lot, where many stu
dents have long counted on a parking place for
a snack between classes.
Why is it that the administration has no
regard for the convenience of students, who
pay their $■'! auto registration fee quarterly,
only to find less and less space in which to
park? Why must instructors take the choicest
and most strategically located lots, when most
faculty members park only once a day and
aren't haunted with a parking problem morn
ing and afternoon?
How can anyone insult a student's intelli
gence hy offering him as solace a parking lot
such as Stegeman. almost 15 minutes’ walk
from Academic?
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This doesn't taste like the milk we have at home!
Bill Hoaqland
A Charge To Keep
(In a campus such as the University of Georgia, probably the most
rewarding experience a student can know is that of working long
and closely with a publication such as The Red and Black, and especi
ally to lie entrusted with the duties and responsibilities that come
with the office of editor.
Hut with this trust comes a debt
of unswerving loyalty to the beat in
tercuts of the student* for whom
The Red unit Black Is published. It
Is to this trust and to these Interests
that this, my first column of the
quarter, Is dedicated.
1 believe there are threo main
areas to which our energies and
those of our readers must be directed
tn order to see this
paper better serve
the students whose
approval and al
legiance It should
seek.
And t r u s tl n g
that the power of
the press Is more
than a worn cliche,
we pledge to do
our best this quarter:
—To present a clearer picture In
deptli reporting—Interpretation of
the significance of news and Impor
tant Information. We believe that
having more time to work op future
Issues, we will Improve each week
after this one, when circumstances
and the large number of pages ne
cessitated some amount of haste.
—To bridge the gap of antagonism
that too often festers wherever there
is political and social competition.
Not to discourage any system where
by the student is enabled to express
his choice In campus elections and
referendum*, but to have a healing
influence on the enmity that too
often results.
—To make The Red and Black the
paper of the student—not of the
staff, nor of any campus faction. We
intend to see that every student has
an equal voice in advising and di
recting policies which are in the best
interests of all.
Of course, this can only be done
when the student makes his wishes
known—where readers fill our pages
with letters to the editor and let us
know Just what they would have us
do.
We pledge our fulfillment of our
responsibilities to you, and trust you
will do the same.
(Dlt) tcbltors &ptafc . . . Earl Watson
When the Bulldogs Roared
(Karl Watson of Atlanta, leads o// oar series by Red and Black editors of
the i>asl. Kditor of the Red and Black in spring ll»Si, Mr. Watson was a
member of Gridiron. ATO Fraternity, president of Phi Kappa, and many other
honor groufts. He is presently a copy editor of The Atlanta Constitution.)
in the Roarin' Twenties, the
"Fifth Columnist” had not come into
being us au infamous character.
80 we added the fifth column to
The Rc<l and Block In February of
1922. and lifted it from its bursting
four-column limits. Things began to
happen.
It seems that college editors of
earlier days were distinguished more
for what they didn’t print and for
printing things
that were better
left to burn them
selves out.
First we started
a controversy be-
tw sen several
learned members
of the faculty. We
invited professor*
on both sides of
the evolution
theory to air their views. tThe cele
brated Scopes Trial at that moment
was raging at Dayton. Tenn.).
Then came the word down from
beloved Chancellor David Barrow:
Cease this ungodly row or The Red
and Black would have to go. So
would its editor. We ceased.
But we did write about a protract
ed contest of card-playing that had
been waxlug in Candler Hall for
days. In my Red and Black column,
Teasing the Bulldog," I referred to
the contest as ' The Hundred Years
War.”
I believe that college editors of
this day are more candid—and per
haps more Judicious. Editor Hoag-
land tells me that everyone on the
R&B staff does some work now. In
1922, it was left to the editor and
one associate, generally. The editor
stayed up all night two nights a
week, to be exact.
it was enough simply to live in
the Roarin' 'Twenties. To live theu
and be editor of The Red and Black
was gilding the lily. But I can't es
cape the feeling that many of us in
Athens roared a bit too much.
Terry Hazelwood
A Thorn
A small thorn can be very painful and trouble
some If not removed immediately. Such seems to
be the case of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
A few months ago, Cuba was a playground for
American tourists, as well as our major source cf
sugar.
Today it Is a festering sorespot, particularly since
Castro has chosen to allign himself with Khrush
chev, our number one problem to date.
Castro has hurled insults without end at our
country. He’s confiscated America owned banks,
property, and industries, and brazenly scoffed and
destroyed treaties with the V. B.
Last week, while Fidel Castro
was in New York city at the
U. N. meeting, his brother, Raul,
threatened to force the U. S.
from Guantanamo, the United
States Naval Air Base in Cuba.
I don’t feel that they will
actually try to do so, mainly be
cause it would take full Russian
support to do it, as ths U. S.
would fight to keep it. and
Khrushchev Is not ready to un
dertake all-out war against theU. S.
Although there are other intricately woven com
plications involved, it seems to me that Castro is
being used by Mr. K. as a back door striking point
against the U. S. Cuba is not a major military
threat in itself, but is being used by Mr. K. as a
means of harassment and slow wearing down of
U. S. defense; a flanking movement..
It’s more like a pesky, snapping dog at the heel
of a salesman at your door on Monday morning.
The dog causes such a commotion, that the sales
man is distracted from the problem at hand, and
goofs the sale.
We are in no position to allow this to happen.
By some means we must eliminate the snapping
dog immediately so that our full attention may
be turned to the problem at hand.
The thorn has got to go!
Alan Wexler
The Big and the Human
I'm beginning to think that big men are human
after all.
I happened to be one of the 300 people on hand
when Richard M. Nixon's plane landed near the
old Atlanta administration building this past
month.
The minute Nixon got off the plane the crowd
seemed receptive to him.
Fortunately for me I had al-
ready arranged a plan where I
was to be personally introduced
to Mr. Nixon by one of the
Republican committeemen. Also
I was assured by this man of get
ting several good shots with my
camera.
Several minutes and several
flashbulbs later, during which
H time I failed to get a good pic-
ture or the Interview, I decided
tills news game wasn't for me.
I stood hy the side of the building as I began
feeling downcast by my failure. A few moments
later 1 happened to glance up, and to my amaze
ment out of the crowd came the nation's number
two couple.
The first thing I did was to snap two quick pic
tures and to try to get to them before the crowd
began following them again. I failed on the later
task but my 12-year-old brother Eddie, who is
a smarter newsman than I, succeeded. He not only
talked with R.M.N. but had a picture taken with
him also.
Some people are lucky, just like my brother
Eddie, but I found out that all people are human,
like Dick Nixon.
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