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We Didn’t Know
An HIM report shows that the University of
Georgia registers its students in about one-
fifth the time it takes most colleges and uni
versities of comparable size.
Many of us have expressed negative opin
ions about the way registration is conducted,
but it was pointed out Monday that the real
problem with registration is the student him
self. From the time the doors open at Stege-
man Hall one can find members from every
class standing and pushing at. the doors try
ing to gain entrance to get the courses “they
need.”
The idea to give numbers to each student
and allow them to enter Stegeman at designat
ed intervals will not meet with everyone’s ap
proval. but it will cut down on the amount of
time wasted by students standing in the [lark
ing lot.
Maybe we don't appreciate the work being
done in the Registrar's office and the HIM of
fice.
Would you like to come five days prior to
beginning of classes or have to wait two weeks
for your grades to arrive hornet
Tried Soles
Stuffing telephone booths, twisting hula
hoops, swallowing goldfish they all were
fads, all hit like blockbusters, all blew over.
Now a new one is upon us President Ken
nedy’s Jill mile hike craze.
As of yet it hasn’t hit the Georgia campus.
A local disk jockey is the only Athenian we
know of who has participated, and he won his
Athens to (iainesville and vice versa foot race
with a (iainesville D.I.
Maybe some Georgia students will take up the
Presidents’ fancy, but we think not. They had
lo have more sense than that to pass the
school's entrance exams.
L<‘tt<*r to the Editor
Dear Sirs:
I’ve got a monkey on my back. I don’t know
where I picked up the habit, it seemed to have
grown unnoticed from my childhood.
It wasn’t too had during my high school
days because most of my friends were addicted
to it also; but at my hometown junior college
1 was often ridiculed for my weakness.
Here at the university 1 thought I would
find many others with the habit, but to my
dismay the very few infected are being cured
by understanding classmates. Because of it my
grades are usually lower than those without
the habit. It makes me a stranger and an out
cast. It tortures my conscience and worries my
dreams. I've got a monkey on my hack—its
name is HONESTY.
Sufferingly,
A Weak Willed Protestor
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Coach Butts:
A Great Loss
Georgia football and Wallace Butts are
synonymous. A eulogy of Coach Butts includes
almost every high point of Bulldog football
history.
His contributions to the Georgia
athletic tradition are legion. Four
limes were his teams champion of the
Southeastern Conference. Kight of his
teams Journeyed to |iost-eeason bowl
commitments; five of them won and
one tied. Fourteen of Georgia's 18
All-Americans and two of Georgia's
three National Football Hall of Fame
members spent their four years here
under Butts' tutelage.
But he ended his association with
Georgia football Saturday, with a
simple resignation and a statement of
appreciation to the University.
Coach Butts will he gone, effective
Feb. 28, but his football accomplish
ments here still will he remembered.
And well they should.
It was Coach Butts who resurrected
Georgia's prominence, then situated
himself and Georgia’s teams near the
acme of intercollegiate football. He
wus the man who won 140 games,
lost 8 6, and tied nine, Georgia's most
Impressive coaching record. He lend-
ed his pre-eminence, in the name of
his University, to the National Foot
ball Rules Committee In 1958-59-60,
then again in 1962. He served as presi
dent of the American Football Coach
es’ Assn, in 1960.
A man with Coach Butts’ intrinsic
coaching ability—the great Frank
Leahy called him "college football's
finest drill master and passing coach”
—won't stay out of his chosen field
long. Where he will coach again Is
anybody’s guess, but we’d give odds
that he will coach again. If he doesn’t,
it will be the profession’s loss.
GEORGE WATTS
A Worthy Cause
Newspaper editors are called upon
daily to support worthy causes and
campaigns. Being a civic minded per
son, I have decided to devote the
space of this column to one of the
worthy requests that arrived in yes
terday's mail.
Tho month of May has been designa
ted ns American Bike Month. And who
should he named
chairman of the do
mestic bicycle indus
try’s annual salute to
the nation's 55 million
cyclists? It is none
other than Debbie
Drake, described as
"one of the nation’s
most outstanding ex
ponents of physical
fitness" by a news re
lease announcing "Bike Month.”
Most of the male readers know
Debbie Drake. She Is familiar to mil
lions of Americans who follow her
dally television program and her na
tionally-syndicated newspaper column.
If the physical appearance of shape-
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All aromul the campus there
seems to be an unusual burst of ac
tivity on the part of students. A
scurrying and hurrying pace has
been taken on by even the meekest
coed.
To the library, onward to class,
then it’s back to the dorm to study.
Has an epidemic of academics hit
the campus T Frankly speaking,
yes! It seems that most of the
students here have just real
ized that finals are approaching.
The campus eutie pictured at
right is a trotting example of the
symptoms associated w i t h the
campus-wide malady affecting so
many.
Our advice is; cheer up, if win
ter quarter finals conic, can spring
quarter be far behind f
ly Miss Drake is an indication of the
healthful effect bicycle riding has on
one's body, I would suggest cycling
for our rumpus coeds.
Of course, the riding attire for the
two-wheeler would properly be long
dresses or skirts. Campus fashion
sources indicate that bermuda shorts
are out again for the year; any con
tradictory word from so-called "na
tional fashion authorities” notwith
standing.
Has it ever occured to you that ap
proximately two million American
college students already use bikes to
travel across sprawling campuses. Our
campus must, therefore, be one filled
with spfties. Fow peddling machines
are evident on the Georgia campus.
It is likely that the month of May
will pass by with little recognition
from Georgia students for "Bike
Month.” Perhaps If the national
chairman could visit our campus, It
would create greater Interest.
However, If "Bike Month" proves
not to be a success—I've done my bit
for the cause. A worthy cause, I
might add.
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KEN BOSWELL
Traditions
In most cases, traditions are good. Some tra
ditions, however, serve only to demoralize
those to whom they are applied.
Each winter quarter, students at the Univer
sity are faced with such a dilemma, in the
form of three Saturday classes.
The purpose of these three extra days is to
provide enough time between quarters for
spring holidays.
Granted, the few days of rest after a hard
week of finals is a blessing.
The fact remains, however, that the students
pay dearly for these precious hours away from
school.
For the first two weeks of the quarter, there
is very little time for relaxation. Two days of
Saturday classes in succession take up all the
snarp time, and students are exhausted by the
time the third weekend comes around. Between
the beginning of the second week and the end
of the third week of the quarter, students at
tend classes a total of eleven days, with one
day in which they are free to relax and forget
about their school work.
The quarter also ends with a similar situa
tion. Saturday classes are scheduled for the
last weekend of the quarter, when most of
the students would prefer to begin prepara
tions for final examinations. And, after another
eleven days of classes with one day for relaxa
tion, many students will begin their final ex
aminations on Saturday.
The student body is grateful to the Univer
sity administration for improvements made in
the scheduling of final examinations in the
past.'
Tt is hoped, however, that in the future some
solution can be found to alleviate the problem
which lias come to be a tradition at the Uni
versity.
WILLIAM ANDERSON
Students Bound
In its attempt to mass-produce college grad
uates for Georgia, the state’s University has
all but destroyed the student’s freedom of ac
tion and self-identity. Goaded on by over-pro
tective parents, religious elements, a state in
need of newly-educated minds and various do-
good individuals, the school is admitting prac
tically every bumpkin in the state. Following
the socialistic trend of our country, the univer
sity is killing the individual as it twists and
binds the student so that he will conform to
the mass group thought and action patterns
contrived by the administration as it submis
sively obeys the aforementioned groups.
Mixing unnecessarily strong tactics with hy
pocrisy, the school has attacked the only forces
of individuality left on this campus: the
Greeks. Long a place of deep traditions and
standard bearer of eampus social life, the
Greeks have been abused, accused, prejudiced
against, bound, tied, and practically gagged.
The relentless socialists who deceivingly de
clared “we just love the Greeks and believe
in them so much” are putting two or three on
probation at a time for slightly varying from
socialists’ righteous standards of behavior. The
trend even has overruled a legally accepted
freedom of choice: the consumption of liquor.
The Greeks are a prejudicing group so they
must go.
They scream from roof tops the horrors of
the beer can. This one freedom of choice of
action has been widely condemned and protect
ing group—herders in the dean’s office have
sworn to the gods in Atlanta that their irre
sponsible children won’t be subjected to the
horrors of the beer can. These aren’t blown-up
facts or distorted situations.
They are a horrible story of a socialistic
trend now enveloping the university and its
formerly free-thinking and fair-dealing admin
istration. The situation is confusing at best to
the student but vicious and strangling at its
worst.
EDITOR’S NOTE
For a ditferent approach to a similar question
raised by the above columnist, the March 12 issue
of Look Magazine, which hits the newsstands to
day, should be read. The Look article, "College
Fraternities; The Perils of Big Brotherhood,”
points out that fraternities across the nation must
prove they belong on the campus—or get off.
In an accompanying text report, “Will Fraterni
ties Survive?”, Look senior editor John Poppy
cites fraternity trouble spots on various campuses,
presents the views of disgruntled fraternity men
and predicts that fraternities—minus the rituals
—may eventually become "a chain of boarding
houses.”