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America'* Pre-Eminent College Weekly for 68 Years
Volume I,XVIII
TilK UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA THURSDAY, I1KOKMIIKR 8. 1IHH)
\ ii in her 10
Legislators To Visit Here
For Three-day
Meeting
Photo by John Furman
BIFTAD. SELECTS MEMBERS—Biftad honor society for freshman
and first quarter sophomore men recently tupped four new mem
bers. They are, pictured left to right, Tom Nickerson, Jim Itlnnelinrd,
John Hurdmun, and Tom Stripling. Membership is based on scholar
ship, campus leadership, and achievement. A maximum of 1.1 members
of each class are selected during fall and spring quarters.
NEW Ii & It EDITORS
Hazelwood, Wexler, Watts
Receive Top Staff Positions
Terry Hazelwood, Decatur, was elected winter quarter editor of
The Red and Black by the paper's board of control Monday, lie suc
ceeds Bill Hoagland, Columbus.
Alan Wexler, Carrollton, was i —
named managing editor and George
Watts, Brinson, was elected to the
position of news editor.
Guy Eberhart, Athens, was re
elected business manager.
Joe Zellner, Trion, was selected as
sports editor and Becky Nash, Smyr
na, present society editor, moves up
to the position of
women's editor.
Marcia Powell, Co
lumbus, who is an
assistant news edi
tor, will serve as
society editor.
The position of
circulation mana
ger is yet to be
filled.
Watts has nam
ed staff writers Kenneth Boswell
and Don Davis as two of his assistant
news editors for winter quarter.
““Hazelwood” an” advertising-public
relations major in the journalism
school, has worked on The Red and
Black for four quarters and has
served as assistant news editor and
managing editor of the paper.
He transferred from West Georgia
College, where he was editor of the
college yearbook for two years and
managing editor of the college news
paper. At Avondale High School, he
was editor of the yearbook and busi
ness manager of the newspaper.
Kirby "Not Notified*
Of Protest Deadline
Independent Party Campus leader
Lowell Kirby Wednesday stated that
the results of the freshman elections
were still unofficial on the grounds
that he was not notified in time to
file a written protest against the re
count of votes.
'The first time I knew that a
Ga. Agriculturist Wins
National Cover Award
The Gi-orgia Agriculturist has won
the second place award for covers in
national competition, the American
Collegiate Magazines Association an
nounced. Successful Farming maga
zine made the award.
Last year's magazine, which was
the applicant in the contest, was
edited by Paul Yarbrough. Repre
senting the University’s magazine
this year at the national convention
in Chicago was Tom Blalock, who
received the award on behalf of last
year’s editor.
University Expects
$600,000 Loan
From Government
An FHHA (Federal Home and
Housing Administration) loan of
$600,000 and land for several new
dormitories is expected to be given
to the University in the near future.
The loan, which Dr. Joe Williams
says will be here in a few days, will
speed plans for the new dormitories.
The new buildings will house about
500 men and 500 women and will
include a cafeteria. Construction will
begin in the summer of 1961 on land
that is presently not In use.
The liourd of Regents has approv
ed a plan to condemn the property
presently occupied by an old school
house on Baxter street.
"No land has been condemned as
of this time,” Dr. Williams said In
his office Monday.
Baskets Added
For Bookstore
“Baskets for your shopping con
venience" was the new feature of the
University Book Store announced
Dec. 2 by C. H. Norton, manager.
A rack of 24 baskets has been
placed in the front of the University
Book Store. These lightweight (23-
ounce) baskets are for use by stu
dents in carrying books and merchan
dise, Mr. Norton indicated. This
would eliminate the possibility of
books being stolen from the book-
drop.
Norton stated further that the
bookstore would remain open dur
ing final examination days in order
to allow students to do last-minute
Christmas shopping before going
home for the holidays.
A lady's Mouton coat left over
from Homecoming may be claimed
by the owner. Mr. Norton said.
Georgia Center Festival
To Highlight Yule Plans
By SANDRA ALLEY
Nineteen years ago Christmas on the Georgia campus was one
which will be remembered. The news of Pearl Harbor was still
verv much in the minds of the students and the world.
This year on the Georgia campus
Christmas is being celebrated and
remember in a different way.
A "Christmas-in-Georgia” pro
gram will be the feature of the Geor
gia Center. The Center will be host
for 180 visitors from 20 or more]
foreign countries from Dec. 22 to
Jan. 1. The program will include]
for the visitors a schedule of both
part In spreading the Christmas spirit
by giving parties to underprivileged
children.
Christmas 1960 will be a far cry
from that of 1941.
Lt. Gov. Byril To Head Group;
Vandiver To Speak Al Dinner
Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd and members of the Georgia General Assem
bly will attend an educational institute at the ('diversity Dee. 11-111,
with Gov. Ernest Vandiver arriving Dee. Id to address the group
at a luncheon at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
The first Institute for Georgia leg
islators, held at the University in
December, 1958, was attended by
nearly three-fourths of the Assem
bly members. This Becond meeting
is scheduled for Athens because of
the success of the 1968 conference,
an Assembly spokesman said.
In the second Institute to be held
at the Georgia Center, special empha
sis will be pluced on efficient organi
zation and on proposed changes in
House and Senate rules of procedure.
Other sessions will deal with how
bills become laws and privileges and
responsibilities of a legislator. The
program is alined at the more than
120 new members of I he Senate and
the House.
Members of the University faculty
and veteran legislators will conduct
the sessions. The program was pre
pared with the help of Dr. Morris
W. H. Collins, director of the Lump
kin Law School’s Institute of Luw
and Government, and his staff. The
legislators will be offefed a tour of
the University campus and will be
entertained at a dinner by Athens
businessmen and local officials.
Inter-Varsity Slates
Meetings for Winter
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship,
a student-led group "dedicated to
sharing a personal friendship with
Jesus Christ," will meet every Tues
day night at 8 p m. winter quarter
at 190 Harden Drive, announced
Ginger Hitchcock, president.
The interdenominational group
will consider such questions as “Are
Christ’s claims valid?” "Is the Bible
true?" “Is there really any differ
ence between the various religions?"
and "Is evidence for evolution con
trary to scripture?" The group seeks
answers to these questions through
the scriptures, Miss Hitchcock said.
A panel discussion of such ques
tions will be included in next quar
ter’s meetings. Representatives of
the group invited all Interested stu
dents to attend.
SDX Chooses
kni<rhl for Post
Chuck Knight, University chapter
president of Sigma Delta Chi Jour
nalism society, has been selected
as the only undergraduate member
of Its national Resolutions Commit
tee.
Knight and Larry Burton repre
sented the University at the 51st
national Sigma Delta Chi convention
In New York last week.
Georgia's chapter placed sixth ont
of 55 nationally in the 1960 Ken
neth C. Hogate Professional Achieve
ment Contest. A high rating in the
contest denotes careful selection of
new members and a program which
helps members to prepare for a suc
cessful career In journalism.
Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New
York, was one of the convention
speakers. "We have a tremendous
responsibility of declassifying and
releasing information so the Ameri
can public can be well-informed and
democracy be protected." the gover
nor said.
Knight said the moat Interesting
parts of the convention was the ques
tion and answer period following
Rockefeller’s speech and a "pseudo
debate" between Herb Klein and
Pierre Salinger, press secretaries to
Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy,
respectively.
education and recreation.
Also planned for the Georgia Cen
ter is the Christmas Festival, a pro
gram especially designed for children.
Shirley Slater of the WGTV staff has
deadline had been set was when the written and directed the show which
paper came out last week, which was
past the deadline,” Kirby said.
Kirby made a verbal protest to
Director of Student Activities John
Cox when the recount showed Greek
presidential candidate Tommy Mil
ner 55 votes ahead of Independent
candidate John Rhodes, after the
first count showed Rhodes to be
leading by one vote.
"His (Cox's) last statement to me
was that he wanted the protest in
writing, but he never told me that
it had to be in at a certain time or
it would not be considered," Kirby
said.
Cox set Thursday afternoon, Pee.
1 as the deadline for Kirby's written
protest.
will be open to the public from Dec.
21-23.
Elsewhere on the campus several |
fraternities, sororities, and other j
organizations have been doing their
Stinl«*nts’ Article l'iilili«li< <l
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Six University journalism students ]
did the reporting and photography
for an article in the December Issue
of Together, a Methodist magazine.
Nancy Eberhart, Mary Fortson.
Jane Rracewell. Pat Harling. Marcia
Powell, and Dan Keever worked on
the story about the Royston Metho
dist eburch's student recognition
program.
Photo by Richard Wemmers
FRESHMAN OFFICERS ANNOUNCED — (L-R) Tommy Milner,
Barbara Williams, and John "Ileery" Prinre have been announced win
ners of the election for president, vice president, and secretary-
treasurer respectively of the freshman class. Director of Student Activi
ties John Cox announce,! this week.
One Negro Slmlent
Approaches Entry
Cbarlayne Hunter, Negro student
seeking admission to the University,
has been ruled tentatively eligible
I to enter next fall by University
Registrar Walter N. Danner.
He added that she will be eligible
| as a transfer student in the fall if
her record for the remainder of this
school year is good.
The registrar stated that Hamil
ton Holmes, Morehouse College
sophomore, had been rejected "on
the basis of his record and inter
view.”
A Federal Court hearing is set for
Monday in Athens with Judge W. A.
Bootle presiding. Negro attorney
Don Hollowell of Atlanta will ai,k
Judge Bottle to order the pair en
rolled in January. Both students at
tend schools on semester system
while the University Is on the quar
ter system.