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Editorials • ®I)C Etb and Macfe • Opiums
‘Tube’ Gets a Boost
The Ford Foundation has given educational televi
sion a shot in the arm with a gift of $0,000,000 for
better programming in 1004. To make sure that the
money will lie used wisely the Foundation has said
that il will review each year's programming and decide
upon its quality before giving the National Educational
Center any more funds.
Educational television has made considerable gains
since it was first begun in the early fifties. Although
the aims were high the stations at first suffered from a
complex of appealing only to the intellectual and hav
ing to compete with westerns, cops and robbers, and
nonsensical situation comedies.
Now the stations have increased in number and have
widened their broadcasts to include a tremendous vari
ety of viewing. To help the stations to broaden their
programming, the Ford Foundation made the proviso
that none of the grants should he used for instructional
programming hut rather for increasing the output of
programs for general viewing.
With few television news programs devoted to an
alysis and commentary of the news, much of the grant
will he used for public-affairs programs, surveys of
national and international affairs and conditions, and
the sciences. This is one area where non-commercial or
educational stations can prove their worth.
Not blessed with vast financial resources of the
commercial giants, the educational stations should con
centrate in areas their bigger brothers shy away from
specifically in areas of quality. If the television pub
lic could be made to realize that on these educational
channels they could find accurate, comprehensive and
unbiased news programs and current affairs programs,
the audiences would greatly increase.
(Reprinted from the Tutanc Hullabaloo.)
A Dying Tradition?
Since anyone can remember the Chapel Hell has tol
led out every (leorgia bulldog football victory.
By tradition members of the freshman class ring the
old bell all night following a gridiron victory to spread
the news throughout the campus and city.
Perhaps the profusion of out-of-town games is re
sponsible. but the Class of '(>7 showed little enthusiasm
and fell down on the job Saturday following the Hull-
dogs' commendable 17-1 1 victory over Kentucky.
]lad it not been for the efforts of a group of fresh
man coeds and one stalwart male who tugged the rope
alone for four hours, the (leorgia victory might have
gone altogether unheralded.
We hope that the freshman class will not sit back
and let a grand old tradition die because of their in
difference.
Student Klansmcn
Calvin Craig, the C.rnnd Dragon of the (leorgia Ku
Klux Klan. announced recently that 112 University stu
dents had joined the ranks of the KKK.
Since that time there has been no record of open
KKK activity on campus. Hut Craig has sworn upon
his green robe that he has the papers to prove these
student Klansmcn are indeed here on campus.
Craig, however, has refused to name the new initi
ates, and their activity, if any. is obviously undercover.
It is a shame that supposedly intelligent college stu
dents would affiliate with an organization whose pur
poses are based on such backward, prejudiced, un-
American concepts.
If they did not feel some shame or guilt in their
membership, these students should have no objections
to having their names made public. Craig’s refusal to
name them and their failure to make themselves known
is an obvious admission of the Klan’s ignoble aims.
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Letters To The Editor '
*No Professional Turtles’
The Georgia Student and the Pacifist
CLIFF CHENEY
To the Editor:
I protest the shocking ac
tion by the Student Council
in its action regarding the
National Turtle Competition!
What I object to is not the
sponsoring of an entrant in
the contest. What distresses
me is the crass and blatant
commercialism shown by the
Council.
They propose to buy a
turtle- And they won’t even
buy a Georgia turtle at that.
They're going out of state
to recruit this sprinter. Why,
it’s the same as paying foot
ball players to attend the
University.
is the state of Georgia so
devoid of natural talent that
we have to go somewhere else
for a turtle? Are turtles in
the District of Columbia that
much faster than Georgia
turtles?
I think not. I propose that
the Student Council ask the
athletic department to send
scouts to scour the swamps,
to search the creeks, to
trudge the coastline of the
state and to come up with a
home-grown product to car
ry the banner of Georgia in
this race.
Give this turtle a scholar
ship. Put him in training. Let
Spec Towns coach him. Do
away with this disgraceful
professional turtle business.
Let the University hold its
head high in the knowledge
that it i3 a champion of ama
teur athletics, even to the
turtle track.
LeRoy Powell
The Peace Walkers
The Peace Walkers
have come and gone.
They made their last
group appearance on
campus Monday night
at the Westminster House and are now
en route to Atlanta.
The Committee for Non-Violent Action
(CNVA) pacifists have told the campus
why they advocate unilateral disarma
ment. how they propose to improve U.S.
Cuban relations and why they believe
in non-violent resistance as the best an
swer for ultimately solving world politi
cal and social problems.
As I talked with some of the 20 paci
fist marchers this weekend, 1 could not
help but have a deep respect for their
dedication to their cause.
As an integrated group, they have en
countered bitterness and violence along
their route from Quebec. Canada,, to
Athens enroute to their ultimate destina
tion. Ounntannmo Hay. Cuba.
KLAN WELCOME
As the CNVA walkers approached
Athens on the Hanielsville Road Friday
afternoon they were greeted by a truck
full of robed Ku Klux Klansmcn who
harrassed them over a loudspeaker and
encouraged onlookers to join in the fun.
One walker, a girl named Yvonne, was
grabbed by a local goon who held a knife
to her throat. She made no attempt to
resist his assault and her comrades con-
Here’s Some Humor!
"The Inner check,” said the philosophy
prof, "can be applied as well to our everyday
lives. Observe, for example, the fly that has
just alighted on my nose. I do not lose my
temper. I do not swear. I do not blaspheme.
1 merely say. ‘Go away fly.’ and, uta—Damn!
It’s a bee!"
• • •
It is definitely untrue that sharks eat
only Catholic* on Friday.
• • •
"A nice girl shouldn't hold a young man's
hand."
“A nice girl has to.”
• • •
Overheard conversation: "I know you’re
a good girl, baby, but do you ha\e to be a
fanatic?”
tinned walking slowly ahead. When her
agressor released the girl, she quietly
joined the group and continued her trek
to Athens.
This dedication to the principle of non
violence advocated by the CN\ A demands
respect. The purpose of the Walk for
Peace, however is of questionable value.
ALL INTEGRATIONISTS
The group, or what 1 saw of it, is a
strange assembly of offbeat authors, ra
dical college students, blindly idealistic
high school kids, pseudo-intellectuals, so
cialists and anarchists, Jews, Catholics,
Christians and Deists.
All are outspoken integrationists, and
many wore CORE and SNCC buttons in
addition to their CNVA insignia. They
were greeted on campus, therefore, with
some degree of suspicion and reservation.
To those who took the time to talk with
the group, however, the walkers’ visit
was a refreshing experience. But far from
a fruitful one.
They alledged that the final goal of the
CNVA is “to do away with corruption,
poverty and disease’’ and to initiate a re
vival of the philosophy of humanism.
TOO MANY "IFS”
The group’s spokesman, Bradford Lvt-
tle, explained their purpose in a wander
ing oratory replete with glittering gener
alities. references to a variety of historical
events and often a doubletalk evasion of
specific and pointed questions.
Lyttle, as the rest, obviously believed
in his cause, but was unable to give it any
concrete basis. The gap between the
CNVA’s well meaning proposals and the
practical application of these is bridged
bv a shaky infinity of “ifs’\
Were there no greed in the world and
men looked upon one another as members
of an international brotherhood, the Peace
Walkers’ ideas would be the answer to all
political, social and economic strife.
NAIVE IDEALISM
Their naive idealism, however, makes
these obviously well-meaning crusader*
and their cause no more significant than
one vote among n million east. But their
courage and dedication are certainly
worthy of praise.
Conclusion: The Peace Walkers’ dedi
cation and courage are to be admired. But
with heads so high in the clouds they
don’t realize that their feet aren’t on the
ground.
To the Editor:
In a recent issue of this
paper, I listed a group of
abominations which have
emerged as thorns in the
sides of the students. Because
of the preponderance of ad
vertising in this paper my re
marks were limited; therefore
I feel compelled to continue
what I started.
I often wonder what pur
pose some of the august and
grandiose organizations on
this campus serve. It is ap
parent that the majority of
them simply sit on their
laurels instead of reflecting
student needs and attitudes
by expressing them to the ad
ministration.
After their well-groomed
picture appears in this paper,
these distinguished indi
viduals inevitably return to
obscurity. We realize, fellas,
that these honors look good
on your job applications, but
why the hell don’t you earn
the right to keep them by
representing we who are not
in such positions to be reck
oned with?
* * •
What this campus needs is
a humor magazine. The school
has such a stangle-hold on
this fine publication that the
degree of satire, criticism
and modern-day student
humor which the Red and
ltlack can print is limited. At
present the average student
has nothing he can identify
himself with, or no way of
having his frustrations, de
sires. or attitudes actually
pronounced before the cam
pus.
Thus, besides providing
contemporary college humor,
the magazine would give the
students a sorely needed
means of expression and com
munication which the Red and
lllaek cannot be expected to
give.
• • •
It’s too bad the Independent
Party removed itself from
clash officer elections; don’t
give the Greeks all of the
credit. . . . The school’s dic
tatorial rule over class of
fices make them meaningless
except during Rush Week for
the club that gave out enough
chewing gum and church keys
to win. I often wonder what
the Independents do for social
life. It’s certain the Univer
sity doesn't provide them
with any.
Name Withheld (again)
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