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Volume XliVIII
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MARCH J, 1081
Number 18
NEWS BRIEFS
Pep Cl uh Slates
Basketball Rally
A PEP RALLY will be held
„ . , will be held at 7
Saturday night in Woodruff Hall
at'T l ° the Klorida ba *ketball game
At the pep rally, the Bulldog Pep
trophy will be awarded.
Board of Regents Gives Approval
For New Dormitory Construction
Club
ROSS PITTMAN, Tlfton, was
elected president of Demosthenlan
Literary Society Wednesday. He suc
ceeds Tom Linder.
Other officers are Guy Eberhardt.
Athens, vice president; Eddie Smith
Calhoun, secretary; Robert Cole I
Athena, —
solicitor; Tom Linder, ser-
geant-at-arms, and Harold
Columbus, custodian.
Posey,
STUDENT COUNCIL met Wednes
day, and several business items were
discussed. In the absence of a quor
um, Lowell Kirby declared the meet
ing adjourned.
The necessary quorum is two-
llnrds of the voting members. Only
21 of 4 1 members were present.
d.:™™ 8 , ' V,I<1 ' meet thls Satur-
i " K the H8ual schedule
for Friday classes.
* * *
hern W ? {K ? ,M AN taIen ‘ show was
he!d Wednesday night in the Univer
sity Chapel. Don Dixon won first
place followed by Kay Hardeman
and Joann Neal, respectively.
$3,600,000 Unit
Set For 1963
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ARCHITECT’S DRAWING OF THE PROPOSED NINE STORY DORMITORY FOR WOMEN
Structure will be situated in the center of the cluster of new dormitories now under construction
Baxter and Lumpkin Streets.
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FRIDAY NIGHT
Dave Gardner To Star
hi IFC Winter Concert
By TOMMY JOHNSON
A two-hour performance by entertainer Dave Gardner will hi«h-
>\ inter quarier concert Friday nijrlit in Fine Art*.
recordings
lifulit the IFC’s
Gardner, whose comic
rocketed him Into national promi
nence last year, will perform from
8 to II) p.m. A five-piece band will
entertain at breaks.
IKC President Tommy Burnside
urged students planning to attend
to go early for good seats, and pre
dicted a large crowd would be on
hand for the concert.
Due to limited seating facilities
in Fine Arts, Burnside said the af
fair would be open only to fraternity
men and their dates.
Greeks must present their IFC
membership cards for admittance,
Burnside pointed out.
Tentative plans have been made
for Greek Week to include an IFC
dance and a concert sometime in
May, Burnside added. A band has not
yet been contracted tor the affair.;
University Vocalist
Wins Opera Trials
Paul Eichel, senior from Atlanta,
will represent Georgia in the 1961
Metropolitan Opera auditions in New
Orleans March 12.
Eichel earned this honor when he
was selected at an audition in At
lanta on Feb. 25. He will compete In
New Orleans with representatives of
other southern states and several
Latin American countries.
If Eichel is selected, he will go
to New York with other winners to
appear in a broadcast concert with
the Metropolitan Opera. Selection in
New Orleans will also lie accom
panied by scholarships and possible
admittance to the Metropolitan Opera | tion and Development,
School in New York.
Eichel is a voice major in Arts j
and Sciences, and hopes for a career
in opera and concert.
Beauty Contest Date
Set For March 30
The annual Miss Athens Pageant
will he held March 30 at 8 p.m. in
the E. II. Mell Auditorium of Athens
High School.
Entries are now being accepted for
the event, which is sponsored each
year by the Athens Junior Chamber
of Commerce.
Anyone wishing entry blanks or
further information should contact
pageant chairman Jimmie Hardy at
LI 6-1645 or entries cbalrinan Cand
ler Meadors at LI 3-3461, Deadline
for entering the contest is March 24.
The Board of Regents approved
Wednesday the construction of a
nine-story dormitory building and
a dining hall to be constructed on
the newly acquired site located be
tween South Lumpkin and Baxter
Street. Total cost of the building
project will be $3,600,000.
Joe Williams, director of the Uni
versity development program, said
the nine-story structure will house
I .mm women students, and will be
the first of stu b multi-stoi led build
ings to he constructed here for the
use or student bousing. Ih-cscnt plans
call for llie installation of nix ele
vators in the structure.
The one-story dining hall is to
accommodate 2.000 students.
Construction on the two buildings
is planned to begin in September of
this year. Present plans call for the
University to occupy the buildings
in January of 1963, pending comple
tion of plans and specifications. Pre
liminary plans have been approved.
Williams stated that the dormitory
will he divided into four independent
units, and that there will be a separ
ate lobby for each of the four units.
Lobby “A" will conluin two ele
vators for floors eight nml nine. l«ob-
b.v "11" will provide elevators for
those students living on floors six
mid seven. Ktiidcnts living on floors
four mid five will use lobby and
those on floor* two mid three will
enter from lobby “D."
The first floor will bo devoted
to lobbies, upurtments for house
mothers, a snack bar, laundry fa
cilities, and space for mechanical
eq uipinent.
(Continued on page 5)
‘OPERATION REVAMP
EUGENE IILAOK
World Bank lloud
To Speak In April
In Lecture Series
Independents lie-in Change
By KEN ROSWELL
I Ilit* Independent I’arit Ims lnnnelietl a program designed to
extend student benefits and opportunities. The official announce
ment was made to Monday night’s meeting of Independent Men.
Included In the program designat-1 (5) Make government groups
ed as "Operation Revamp," are plans j more representative,
to bring about needed changes on I plan for changing the Student
. . . i , , ,, ... .. Council to u two-body group, similar
International Bank for Reconstruc- |campus, said Campus Leader Lowellj j () ^
Eugene
By
R.
DON DAVIS
Black, president of the
speaker
will be guest I Kirby
at the University Alumni j
sponsored Ferdinand
Lectures here on April 12-
in his announcement of the
Society
Phinlzy
13.
A 1917 University graduate, Mr.
Black also bolds honorary degrees
from Columbia and the Universities
of Chattanooga, Oglethorpe, and Sy
racuse.
After graduating from Georgia,
he became associated with Harris,
Forbes and Company, New York In
vestment Brokers, and by 1933 was
assistant vice president In charge of
four main offices.
He then became connected with
j the Chase National Bank of the City
of New York, where he obtained the
senior vice presidency before resign
ing in 1949 to accept his present
position. Between 1947 and 1949,
| he served the International Bank as
United States executive director.
As president of the bank, he used
! his influence to settle a recent dis
pute between Pakistan and India that
could have had international reper
cussions if it had not been quelled.
THE 1 (Mil SORORIT
second sopt with Zct.a
place. Shown above
DPME; Belli Smith, I
See story on page 5.
Y was won by Pi Beta Phi. Phi Mu took
Tau Alpha and Delta Phi Kp-ilon tieing for third
receiving the awards arc; Adrienne Penan,
hi Mu; Peggy Bryan. Pi Phi and Liz Jones, Zct a.
I Diversity Fresh mu n Dies
In Weekend Car Accident
Johnny Mike Smith, 18-jrear-old
University freshman, waa killed ear
| ly Saturday when his car plunged in
to a rain-swollen creek.
Mike, son of Buford Rock Quarry
Prison Warden Hubert Smith, was
visiting home for the weekend.
A doctor said the youth died from
••hest and head injuries and not from
| drowning when the car went through
| a washed out culvert.
program.
Proposals which are Included in
"Operation Revamp" are plans to:
(1 ) Provide more parking places
for students,
(2) Eliminate the fees for park
ing permits,
Georgia legislature, is propos
ed. One body would be selected by
residence and the other by schools.
This plan would provide more rep
resentation to the student body. An
alternate plan provides for the se
lection of Council members on a non
partisan basis, with each campus
political party being entitled to the
(3) Insure that student elections same number of representatives,
will be safeguarded, | "Operation Revamp" will be sub-
(4 i Remove politics from student i mitted to the administration for ap-
puhlicatlons, and proval, Kirby said.
8ANFKA TALLY, MISS (il-iOlUilA OF 1901 T will In* gue*t of honor
at the March of IMmr* dance Saturday night at Memorial Ilall. The
fiance begin* at 9 p.m. and the March of Dime* Queen will be
l>e crowned by MU* Tally.