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Home Games
At the present rate of consumption, it ap
pears that all Georgia football games will be
played away from home in the near future.
An announcement from Athletic Director
Wallace Butts stated that only four gridiron
clashes will take place in Sanford Stadium
next season. The oripinnl schedule called for
five panics at home. A chanpe, Butts explained,
was made as a favor to Clemson, which had a
scant home pume schedule for next season.
Perhaps Georgia should worry about its own
home panic set up which may also be described
as “scant." In addition, it may be described as
heavy toward the first of the season. The first
three panics will be played bnek-to-baek at
home. Then Sanford Stadium lies fallow from
Oet. 5 until Nov. 10.
The Red and Black is awnre that schedules
are planned well in advance. We are merely
uskinp for a slightly better gaze into the cry
stal ball on the part of those responsible.
Classic Films
An important cultural project is being initi
ated with the cooperation of school officials
which we feel deserves public attention.
Its purpose is to allow students, teachers and
parents to sec a series of four literary film
classics, one each month from February
through May.
Called the “World Herritape Film Program,”
the new endeavor is sponsored jointly by
Scholastic Magazines and Metro-Goldwyn-May-
er, with the assistance of the National Advisory
Committee of Educators.
It is a noteworthy undertaking, for a vast
audience of high school and college students
will have its eyes and minds opened to world-
famed literary works which were adapted to
the screen with high standards of taste, quality
of production, and fidelity to the author’s style.
The four films chosen for showing at a local
theater are “A Tale of Two Pities,” "Little
Women.” "Julius Caesar” and “David Copper-
field "
“A Tale of Two Cities” starts Feb. 27,
Some of the stars include Liz Taylor, June
Ally son, Peter Law ford, Lionel Barrymore,
Marlon Brando, Deborah Kerr, James Mason,
Greer (1 arson and Ronald Coleman.
Aside from their obvious literary merit, they
offer University students a worthwhile global
and historical perspective.
Letters Policy
The Red and Black welcomes letters on top
ics of interest to our readers. They should not
exceed 250 words in length. The editor re
serves the right to edit material submitted to
The Red and Black for publication to meet
style and space requirements. Letters must be
signed, but names will be withheld on request.
GEORGE WATTS
Republicanism
If the Georgia campus is any sounding board for the South, it appears
that the Republican Party is finding inroads into a well-known Demo
cratic area.
Should the above statement prove
to be a more hypothesis, the Repub
lican Party deserves recognition for
Its attempts at any rate.
Coming to this campus in a period
of less than a month are two of the
highest ranking Re
publicans In the
U.S. Senate, Barry
Goldwater and
Thruston Morton.
Senator Ooldwater’s
address was made
before a very large
and receptive audi
ence of students
and faculty mem
bers on Jan. 26.
Senator Morton will speak to members
of the Georgia Press Assn, and stu
dent guests assembled at the Georgia
Center on Thursday of this week.
Another surprising event was a re
cent announcement from the Demos-
thenian Literary Society that mem
bers of this group have become dis
ciples of Republicanism After a long
heritage with the party of their fore
fathers, Demosthenians professed a
change of heart. Their claim, how
ever, was that the society had not left
the Democratic Party; rather, the
party left the society in its shift away
from conservative principles.
Off campus, Georgia has heard the
first rumblings of the Republican
Party in the grass-roots where a foun
dation must be laid for strength on
the statewide level.
The payoff question which will be
answered in the '64 election is: can
Republicans convince enough conser
vative Southerners that they will find
a home in this party while talking the
exact opposite to moderates and lib
erals across the nation. Few people
ever mastered the art of playing two
tunes on a piano at one time. But
rest assured that the Republicans will
be banging away at such a task.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Hear Mr. Kditor:
In reference to Mr. Thomas M.
Clouts’ letter to the Editor of the Red
and Black appearing Tuesday Feb. 6,
1903, I would like to say to Mr.
Clouts that I am in full agreement
with his opinion of the Greek coterie.
And I think it is high time someone
said what you said.
Mr. Clonts has approached a prob
lem which hns long needed assessment
and recognition. That problem is why
are we students at the University of
Georgia? Are we here to go to parties
and dances, maybe to get a husband
or a wife, or to Join the clique so we
can lie one of the social elites? When
someone asks us. Oh! we say we are
going to school to get an “education.”
We can come close to an evaluation
of the question through the posing of
another. What is the purpose of the
University: The purpose of the Uni
versity, we might say, is to hand down
from generation to generation some
of the knowledge acquired by previous
generations, and posibly to carry on
research to gain new knowledge so
that we, the students of today, can
use this knowledge and experience to
better cope with the problems of to
day’s and tomorrow’s society . . .
I am not against parties and social
izing, but I am against their frequency
and the high value which they are ac
corded.
Sincerely,
Edward G. McCants, Jr.
CHARLES MILLER
Zero Point
The Saturday night fights are popular with
television audiences. In such a contest, two
athletes from various corners of the world are
pitted together in an event requiring courage,
speed, strength, endurance, physical condition
and an infinite number of abilities.
In the old days raw courage or strength was
the only prerequisite for such a victory. But
like every thing else today,
more skills, more talent, and
more time is becoming manda
tory.
Track and swimming, base
ball and football, every sport
in the world has records that
are constantly being bettered.
Only a few years ago a track
expert would have said the
four minute mile would never
be reached, much less surpassed. He would have
said that no one will ever high jump seven feet
and that sixteen feet in the pole vault is out
of the realm of human comprehension. But to
day each of these has fallen and faster times
and greater heights are only track meets away.
When will records cease to be broken? How
can man continue to develop his physical abi
lities bevond his predecesors? There must be a
point, ail exact time, a perfect score for every
known contest. Someday, somewhere, someone
will vault a bar higher than possible for any
other human. Some perfect day a mile will be
run in a time that can never be beaten
We are not supermen. Each generation is
not so much better than the previous that
talents need only be developed for records to
be broken.
Think. If time is constantly cut from the
hundred yard dash, zero is constantly being ap
proached! If zero is constantly approached,
then one glorious day someone will gallop the
distance in 0.0 seconds.
Of course this is absurd but when will an
everlasting mark be reached in every athletic
contest? It must be reached some day.
However, in the mean time, I am one who is
sitting back in awe, watching the impossible
take place every week of my life.
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