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THE UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, IIMVJ
Number 12
New Scholastic Regulation
Places1,390 On Probation
SNOW BLANKETED much of the Athens area Tuesday night, and
scenes similar to the one above were common throughout the Uni
versity campus. Three students are shown trudging their way to
classes at the Science Center, cautious of the slippery conditions of
the walks. Rutherford Hull is pictured in the background. (Staff
Photo by Mike Dorsett)
Snow Falls On Campus;
Students Enjoy Flurries
By JIM MATHIS
The recent flurries of snow on the
University campus and surrounding
vicinity caused much excitement and
worry to students, faculty, and citi
zens.
The snowfall had been predicted
for the previous weekend but tailed
to arrive until late Tuesday night.
This was the earliest it had snowed
lu Athens for several years.
Students and faculty alike rushed
to their windows to view the white,
fluffy stuff. Students built snowmen
and snowball fighting was intense.
The Icy precipitation came in
the wake of a cold wave. The
low temperature Tuesday night
was 18 degrees, while the high
croeped only to 2fl Wednesday
afternoon.
All highways north of Athens
were closed due to the freezing of
the snow, causing slippery conditions
throughout the area.
On campus, the icy weather and
frozen snow contributed to many
stalled automobiles and traffic Jama.
Students were forced in many cases
to abandon their cars because of
automotive trouble and trudge to
classes on foot.
However, students were not the
only ones Inconvenienced by the
weather; professors and instructors
were equally discontent with the pre
dicament.
Many who had early morning
classes to conduct were late or had
to wait until later in the day when
the snow melted.
Co-Ed Is Approved
In Council Probe
A Student Council committee
headed by Ann Eulenfleld re
cently reported that sanitary
conditions at the Co-ed Restau
rant, l»H4 8. Lumpkin, are
good and the establishment
possesses a Grade A permit is
sued by the State Health De
partment.
An investigation of the local
establishment was made by the
Student Council committee after
complaints had been voiced at a
council meeting last quarter.
Miss Eulenfleld said her com
mittee found nothing In their
investigation to implicate that
the sanitary conditions there
were poor.
Speed Bumps
To Go During
Winter Term
By LARRY JONES
University students will no longer
have to worry about broken shock
absorbers, damaged tires, and front-
end car re-alignment. According to
University Director of Traffic and
Security William Mathias Jr., speed-
breakers now located at various
spots on campus will be removed
this quarter.
Mathias said so far only a few
of the speedbreakers have been re
moved by the University’s plant
operations staff, but added that all
with the possible exception of those
located on Green street, will be tak
en up during the winter school ses^
sion.
It has not been decided whether
to remove those on Green street
(which runs in front of the married
students dorms) because of the many
children of married students who
play in the area.
So far this quarter, 2,931 students
have received permanent student
parking permits, more than 4 00 have
received temporary parking permits,
and 3,200 faculty parking permits
have been issued.
IFC Concert
To Feature
Folk Group
By CLIFF CHENEY
The IFC-sponsored winter quarter
concert this year will feature the
folk music of The Highwaymen. The
popular vocal group will present a
two and one-half hour concert in
Fine Arts Auditorium Friday, Feb.
2, beginning at 8 p.m.
Their hit recording of “Michael”
rocketed the group to stardom just
few months ago, and "Cotton-
fields” is now on best-seller charts
all over the country.
Says United Artists, "Their agility
as musicians and singers, plus their
strict adherence to authenticity, as
sures that their future will Indeed
be a bright one.”
This second annual concert
will be open only to fraternity
men and their dates, and a win
ter q ii a r t e r Interfraternity
Council membership card will
admit one couple.
Wyck Knox, IFC president, com
mented, “We would like to open the
concert to the entire campus, but
facilities (at Fine Arts) are inade
quate even for the fraternity men
and their dates.” Fine Arts has a
seating capacity of 1,800. There are
more than 1,200 fraternity members
at the University.
Some temporary seating will be
available, but the IFC still expects
standing room only. Seats will go
on a first-come, first-served basis,
with the doors at Fine Arts open
ing at 7 p.m.
Knox said the Council had con
sidered holding the concert in Stege-
man Hall, which could accommodate
a much larger crowd, “but tho acous
tics there are not adequate for this
group.”
The IFC finances its winter quar
ter concerts with money earned at
the preceding spring and winter
quarter dances. These have featured
such personalities as Joni James,
Anita Bryant, and The Brothers
Four. Dave Gardner performed at
last year's winter concert.
STEVE BURRELL
Burrell Named
Cadet Colonel
Of AF ROTC
Air Force ROTC Cadet Col.
Stephen F. Burrell, Clarkesville, has
been appointed to the position of
wing commander, succeeding cadet
Col. John W. Chapman.
Colonel Burrell was recently
named “Distinguished Military Ca
det” in a review last October, and,
with three other cadets, received
the award from Col. Kenneth B.
Strauss, the Southeast area com
mandant.
Son of Zeb Lee Burrell, Clarkes
ville, Col. Burrell graduated from
Tallulah Falls High School In 1958.
A member of the Beta Club and the
“T” Club, he also received a Lamar
Trottl academic scholarship.
He has served as an Argonaut
and a member of Reed Hall Council,
Scabbard and Blade, and Arnold Air
Society.
He Is enrolled In the College of
Arts and Sciences and Is majoring
In geography. He Is engaged to Miss
Betsy Gilstrap of Toccoa.
Scholarship Slated By Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines will award a $300
scholarship this quarter to a junior
majoring in aeronautical administra
tion. The scholarship is payable at
$100 a quarter and may be con
tinued for another $300 for the
senior year.
Applications for the award, which
was established in 1952 and awarded
every year since, may be picked up
at Lawrence Nachtrah's office
In the College of Business Ad
ministration or from Dean of Men
William Tate, 236 Academic Build
ing.
The applications should be re
turned to Naehtrab or to Dean
Tate by noon, Jan. 21.
BY IFC
Winter Rush Plan Proposed
The Interfraternity Council, at its
first meeting of the quarter, decided
to investigate the possibility of hav
ing organized rush in the winter
and spring. These rush functions
would not replace the regular fall
rush.
Chris Foster, chairman of the IFC
Rush Committee, said the commit
tee would meet Friday to discuss
the matter and possibly make sug
gestions to the IFC at the Council's
next regular meeting.
The Council decided to re-award
the IFC scholarship to British drama
student Bill Royston. The scholar
ship Is given each quarter In co
operation with the Athens Rotary
Club to a deserving European stu
dent.
Mrs. Bill Strickland of Athens,
chairman of the local Muscular Dy
strophy Drive, sent the IFC a note
of appreciation for the Council's
help in the fund-raising campaign.
Mrs. Strickland said, “The suc
cess of the house-to-bouae march
for Muscular Dystrophy was largely
due to members of the Interfra
ternity Council and the Junior In
terfraternity Council." This year's
campaign netted $856.82, the largest
amount ever collected for Muscular
Dystrophy In the Athens area.
TEN OUTSTANDING inale students have been chosen for initiation
into lliftad, highest undergraduate honorary service club. (Seven of
tlie initiate-) are pictured above. They are, left to rigid, James H.
Chapman, New nan; Janies A. Bishop, Alma; Jake Lee Kaye, Rutledge;
Donald Kent Khelp, Atco; McCarthy Crenshaw Jr,, Jacksonville, Fla.;
Robert Wayne Hurst, Wayrross; John Harris loangford, Gadsden,
Ala. Other Initiates not pictnred are Thomas H. Milner Athena; Cal
vin Ellis Black, Valdosta; and Alexander Patterson, Athens.
Tate Opposes
Recent Ruling
By JOHN LAROSCH
Seventeen per cent of the Univer
sity student body Is on scholastic
probation this quarter as a result
of a now probation ruling.
Dean of Faculties Alvin B. Blscoe
said that 1,390 students are on pro
bation ns a result of the new rule,
which was Instituted last fnll.
Blscoe said that the rule was
“the result of an extensive
study by the faculty executive
committee." But I>ean of Men
William Tate said that to his
knowledge there lias never been
a study regarding grades, ex
cept those made by Ills office.
The new ruling was enacted by
tho faculty committee in November
of 1959 to become effective In Bpring
quarter of 1961, but after further
consideration was delayed until fall
quarter of 1961, Blscoe said.
Blscoe said the rule was post
poned to give students a chance to
seo tho rule in the student hand
book.
A student can stay off probation
if he has two C'n and a D. but these
grades do not give him a graduation
average,” Blscoe said. "This new
rule Is designed to tell students if
they are In difficulty with their
graduating averages.”
According to Blscoe, the faculty
executive committee began its In
vestigation Into the new average rule
In July, 1959.
A report recommending higher
averages was mado on Nov. 22, 1959,
and was accepted after being
studied,” Blscoe said.
Dean Tate ban been leading
a fight to have the new rule
removed from the books since
he first learned about Its pres
ence.
In a letter to Dean of Students,
Joseph Williams dated Dec. 21,
1961, Tate wrote:
I wish to call your attention to a
report In my office from the Universi
ty of Virginia, where they are ap
proaching the problem (of grades)
from the point of view of selective
administrations, as has been our
policy
"At the University of Virginia the
exclusion of freshmen was 12 per
cent, general college; 12 per cent,
engineering; 26 per cent, architec
ture; and 6 per cent, education.
These figures are based on an ad
mission of 1,044 freshmen.
‘In my three previous letters
about oar new rule, which as
I pointed out was passed without
any consideration of the Impact, and
which has not yet been studied by
anyone except me and my staff, our
drop-out rate would he 39 per cent
of our freshmen within four quar
ters.
"Please remember that this rule
was passed when nobody knew what
It would do.
"When we have accepted students
capable of our collage work, we can
not Justify excluding 39 per cent
of them within the first four quar
ters. Experience has shown that
teachers give approximately the same
number of F’s and D’s regardlesa
of the standard of admission.
"Our standards should be raised,
I think, basically In the question of
admission or in classroom teaching,
not by a rule which appears to me
impractical and Illegal.
"At the end of last spring
quarter, 221 boys were on pro
bation ... if the new rule had
been In effect in June . . . fW)7
additional boys, about three
times an many would be on pro
bation,” Tate wrote.
Tate said he thought that more
study should have been made by the
faculty before the rule was passed.
“It's odd for the faculty to pass
a rule without asking some office
to make a study. If we bring stu
dents here it's Ironic to turn around
and throw them oat,” Tate said.