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Brain vs Brawn
Karl Marx said there always will be a class
struggle. Saturday afternoon is the moment
of truth, the moment when the tide of bnttlc
shifts to favor one side or the other, the mo
ment of decision in the struggle on the Uni
versity of Georgia campus.
At :» p.m. on that March 2 the Georgia stu
dent will have to make his decision: to choose
brains or brawn.
It will be interesting to note the number of
absences eighth period Saturday classes will
suffer. On Sanford Field Georgia’s 1963 foot
ball team will be staging its private little
struggle, between the first-class Red team and
the White team, considered generally to be a
bit inferior. It will be exhibiting to gridiron
mastermind Johnny Griffith its collective
game-winning abilities and will be trying to
erase from the memories of the students and
varied supporters present the remembrances
of rather unbrawny 3-7 and 3-4-3 seasons
while planting visions of sugar plums in their
heads.
At the same time the academic fathers will
be endeavoring, however futilcly, to conduct
their prespective nightmares called Saturday
classes.
In all fairness, the administration should not
lie blamed solely for the conflict a rather an
noying one. we might add. In fact, it. should
not be blamed at all. Classes for March 2 were
scheduled long in advance of the pre-planning
of Griffith’s men’s Saturday winter final.
Overemphasis is the cry from myriad eduen-
tors today. Well, on the Georgin campus we
can point with chest expanded that academies
finally are coming on pnr with football. Sat
urday’s classes won’t be dismissed early just
because one of the most important, athletic
events of the winter conflicts. Indeed, pre
sum ptiousucss abounds.
BOB ACKERMAN
Learning
The time we all spend in college is valuable
—very valuable. Many of ns do not realize how
important, until it is too late.
Here we sit with plenty of money which
probably came from the parents savings ac
count. which in turn took years of hard work
to uciptirc, all for the simple reason that they
wanted to be assured that “Son” was going to
get a college education.
I wonder what you are doing with the time
you are spending in college anything! You
probably will be able to say no!
The four years or so that we nil spend in
college is one of the most important periods
in our life. When you graduate from college
you might not be able to remember all the
dates of the battles of tin* French Revolution,
but you will remember bow you went about
learning these particular dates at the time of
the quiz.
<'allege teaches us how to learn and this,
we are going to have to do, every day, the
rest of our lives. We all are aware of the fact
that we live in a rapidly moving technological
world 1 nfortunately the poorly trained are
left behind.
W e also learn how to get along with others—
how to cooperate with others how to under
stand others. These things we must be able to
do if our team is to move smoothly and success
fully through life We also must be a part of
the team. All too often we do not consider
those around ns who depend on us to fill our
position.
It is probably obvious then that the piece
of sheep skin we receive as we walk to the
stage on commencement day is not what’s im
portant What is important though, is what we
learned about learning and life in general while
compiling the hours required to get the piece
of sheep skin.
The degree won’t get the jobs for us nor will
it get the job done once we have it. This de
pends entirely and I repeat—entirely upon
ns
Have you looked into your future and have
yon considered your associates recently t I
hope so.
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EDITOR GEORGE WATTS
BUSINESS MANAGER TOMMY JOHNSON
MANAGING EDITOR LARRY JONES
Volume I .XX Number A5
Published twice a week on Tucadny ami Thurs
day n( llie I'nivcrsltg of Georgia. Athens, Georgia.
Red and Black Analysis 1 "”
The Closing College Door
By MARGARET SMITH
Most college officials conceed that the “college door” is
slowly closing. Some take the position that it is closing
more rapidly for women than men.
I tut University administrators say that discrimination
against women does not exist on this campus, at least not
in the areas of admission, housing and granting scholar
ships.
Admission is based on the eligibility of the student and
the availability of housing facilities for women applicants.
It is true that in the fall of 1961 about 250 women were
turned away because of the lack of space. Hut, the regis
trar’s office emphasized, they were told that they could
enter the University in the winter or spring quarter of that
year, when the dormitories were less crowded.
Dean Stallings pointed out that women have access to
relatively more space than men. Even though there are
about three men to every woman at the University, there
is enough room in dormitories and sorority or fraternity
houses for 2,365 women and 2,635 men.
In fact, women are this year living in five dormitories
which were built originally for men—Clark Howell, Candler,
A, H, and C.
Men’s and women’s housing units are being constructed
at the same rate now and this also has been true in the
(wist. Dean Stallings said that Myers and Reed llalls were
built at the same time. Another case in point is the con
struction of the new women’s dorm, which has space for
1,000 women, to equal the room available in dorms A, B, C,
D, E, and F.
Similarly, scholarships are awarded equally to men and
women on the basis of their ability and need. Mrs. Anne
Seawell, in the office of Student Aid and Placement, point
ed out that while many scholarships are available for men
only, as many are for women only. For instance, IFC and
Blue Key give awards only to men and WSGA and Mortar
Board only to women.
This year 32 women and 14 men are on freshman scholar
ships, 34 men and 30 women are on Regents’ scholarships,
and 58 women and 20 men are on State Teachers’ scholar
ships.
Some schools, such as Law, Veterinary Medicine, Phar
macy, and Agriculture have few women graduates each
year. And Forestry nevef has had a woman in the school.
But then, how many men major in home economics!
While women students at Georgia appear to have equal
opportunities in the areas of admission, housing and receiv
ing scholarships, the fact remains that the “college door” is
closing on all applicants. With each new class at the Uni
versity which usually is heralded as “the largest yet,” there
is a greater percentage of high school seniors turned away.
The admission standards are becoming more difficult
and the requirements to remain here are increasing corres
pondingly.
GEORGE WATTS
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir:
I am a Senior, an honor graduate, who has never
written any kind of letter to any kind of publica
tion before. But I have never read anything quite
so stupid as William Anderson’s editorial, ‘‘Stu
dents Bound.”
His central idea seems to be that the socialists
who run the nation behind the scenes are trying
to attack that last stronghold of individualism, the
Georgia fraternity. If the socialists who run the
nation (if ihdeed socialists run the nation behind
the scenes, for I am quite uninformed in these
matters) if these socialists, whoever they may be,
wanted to stifle individualism, the very last place
they would demolish would be a large number of
the fraternities, for most members of most fra
ternities seem to be the socialist’s dream:the fel
low who most of the time will go along with the
group, live by its rules and feel Its punishment for
breaking these rules, e.g. wearing a brown belt
with black Weejuns, of all unpardonable things.
There is reference to the stringing of “socialist’s
righteous standards of behavior.” The type of so
cialist one most commonly identfies and which
Anderson identifies, is the Fabian Socialist. In
reality a Fabian socialist is supposedly happily
amoral, a devotee of free love, free-flowing liquor
and free song. Not, by any stretch of the imagina
tion, is a Fabian Socialist a Baptist Deacon.
If the Kill and lilack is so hard up for writers
that it has to publish material of a third-grade
mind to fill up a page twice per week, it should
certainly go back to onee-per-week publication.
An Inactive ‘“Greek"
Name Withheld
House W anted
Georgia’s new governor, Carl San
ders, is experiencing the same diffi
culty I am. We are both looking for a
new place to live.
Although I am only looking for a
small house or apartment which would
comfortubly accomodate four students
and Gov. Sanders has his heart set on
a million dollar mansion, I still like
to think we have
something in com
mon.
I feel that I can
offer a few con
soling words to
the governor even
though our com
mon problems are
so vastly differ
ent.
Three well-placed state senators
have announced plans to ambush
Georgia's new governor’s mansion pro
posal which has already passed the
House.
Fulton Sen. James Wesberry, Sen.
Culver Kidd of Milledgevllle, and De-
Kalb Sen. H. McKinley Conway have
suggested a more moderately priced
house. Gov. Sanders, I have opposition
too. Some people Just don't like to rent
to students.
fine of your opposition Indicated
Cv
that he is concerned with the image
of the state if your million dollar
mansion should be built. He said It
“is not the image we want to give
people of Georgia, that our officials
are living In palaces.” So Governor, as
you can see, its not you or I being
opposed personally.
As you know, some people are al
ways good at solving the other fellow’s
problems even when they can't solve
their own. Therefore, let me make
some suggestions.
If economy is the question, have
you considered building a shell home
on the 4250,000 lot on which the state
holds an option? Of course, you will
have to be sure monthly payments are
met since you will be required to put
up your “dollar and a deed” for the
house.
Another suggestion I might offer is
that you take your family to the Y.
This would be in line with your en
thusiasm for physical fitness. I will
be seeking similar accomodations here
in Athens after this week if my present
luck at house hunting continues.
Governor, this is all I can do for
you at the present. Can you offer any
solutions to my problem? Please bear
in mind that we are both operating
under an economy program.
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Itoar Editor:
Mr. Anderson raised some complaints in his
article, "Students Bound,” in the last issue of the
Bed and Black against administration policy which
1 feel are Justified. Mr. Anderson made the point
that an individual must agree to give up any of
his democratic rights in order to attend this in
stitution. Such applies to student organizations as
well as individual students.
However, the complaints Mr. Anderson mention
ed are obviously not the result of socialistic ideolo
gy: they are the fruits of an out-dated traditional
ism—Southern conservatism. These restrictions are
the result of long established cultural ideologies—
not of an economic system.
It is unfortunate that Mr. Anderson is not
aware that in the socialistic lands of Norway, Den
mark and Sweden, the students enjoy the same
democratic privileges as their fellow-citizens.
There the students regulate themselves, their or
ganizations and their dormitories. I saw this for
myself during my two years of work in Norway.
The Scandanavian concept that a university
should function as an institution is wide-spread—
regardless of the country’s economic system. But
here the university is used as a kindergarten—a
concept which is held most strongly by Southern
conservatives—the same group which screams for
rights and individualism. And it is exactly this
group, not the Socialists, who only a hundred years
ago fought to preserve slavery, while its contem
porary political demagogues extol the virtues of
our "sacred Southern way of life.”
Please, Mr. Anderson, don’t spar with non-exis-
tant ghosts while the real culprits sit by and
laugh. Robert B. Hartford