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Congestion Study Is Fine,
But We Need Action "Now
Traffic congestion on campus again lias reached the
critical stage, and the traffic department does not know
what to do about it. Study suggestions range from an
intra-campus bus system to a change in the clnss dis
missal time for south campus classes.
All this is dandy, but talk will not solve our problem.
We need action.
Marvin E. Van Vleek, director of traffic and security,
said 1967 is the earliest date possible for any bus system
that might he devised.
The lied and Black wonders what his department pro
poses to do about the atrocious parking situation already
here. A bus system in l!t(>7 will not alleviate the cramped
parking situation on campus now.
Some plan of action to solve this problem should be
activated immediately. The Bed and Black, although it
knows of no panacea, has devised some suggestions we
feel should be investigated.
First, we feel it is inequitable for faculty members’
ears to be welcome anywhere on campus. Many times a
member of the faculty will park in a student lot, because
it is nearer his building, and this legally is all right. This
rule at least should be provisional.
Second, students’ on-campus permits should not be is
sued to anyone with a class standing below a junior.
This, it seems to us would contribute to the defeat of the
basis of the problem: there are too many automobiles on
campus.
Third, a ear parked in the wrong zone should be towed
away. Tickets do not affect some students, who would
rather pay a $.'l fine than be late for class.
Fourth, to disperse congestion, policemen should be
stationed at the more-vital intersections (i.e., Herty and
Baldwin) during rush hours. This would save much tem
per and it would make life more secure for several thou
sand pedestrians.
We urge that the traffic department study these pro
posals. plus any other means of alleviating the urgent
situation facing the University.
Ituliciilous lo liidiruloiis
Leave it to a (leorgia man to find a new way to do it.
A couple of years ago then White House Press Secre
tary I’icrre Salinger instigated a walking mania in the
United Stales. Everywhere Americans were taking eom-
munuls with Nature everywhere but on the (leorgia
campus.
Not a single ease of a marathon walk was reported.
Now comes Mike Fink and his hands-and-knVes jour
ney lo Puss’, lie didn’t make it. but lie gave it the old
(leorgia try, and I.e collected half the bet . . .or, prize.
The only thing more ridiculous than Fink's journey, it
seems to u >, is Mean of Men William E. Tate’s not allow
ing Fink to finish. We trust Fink's candy was taken away
and his wrist was slapped.
II Tells Its Story Well
Muff Photo—Jlmm) Donald
You wonder, maybe, why student support was abomin
able at lackadaisical Georgia's 76-57 drubbing by Tennes
see Monday night. View this picture; then wonder no
more.
TED HESTER
Minister of Student
Functions
Big Snag
Is Booking
This is the seventh in a
series by the eight members
of Student Body President
John Rhodes’ cabinet. In
Thursday's Red and Black
Minister of Publications
George Watts will report.
The minister of student
functions Is the student
counterpart to the director
of student activities, and
the two work together in
planning and organizing
student concerts, lectures,
and other entertainment.
THE
CARLTON BROWN
Rod and lilack News Editor
LBJ Is
Wrong
Lyndon B. Johnson will
be sworn In as President of
the United States tomorrow.
Already he has presented
his program to Congress.
Already, there is disagree
ment.
President Johnson’s poli
cies are not far removed
from those
of the late
John Ken-
nedy, but
there Is one
point on
which the
two appar-
e n t 1 y dis
agree — fed-
e r a 1 aid
to parochial
| schools.
Kennedy, though It meant
a denial of funds to the
Catholic school Bystem—
ami he was a devout Catho
lic—refused to support the
measure because he felt it
was unconstitutional. I
agree.
Those In favor of this
proposal argue that citizens
who send their children to
private schooU are taxpay
ers just like the rest of us.
Therefore, they feel that
they should get their share
of the federal appropria
tions—Just like the rest of
us. They want their share.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S
Great Society program seeks
to improve education across
the country. If the private
schools are so much better—
as these citizens and many
educators say they are—
then the money would prove
most useful in the private
schools.
Tax money is public mon
ey. It should be spent on
public programs and not on
a select group of private
individuals.
No person is denied the
right to attend public
schools. Those who choose
to attend private institu
tions are doing so with the
full knowledge that they
"forfeit" the federal bene
fits they desire so much.
Federal aid to parochial
and private schools would
aid some, deny others. Fed
eral aid to public systems
Is open to all, none dented.
The opportunity is there.
Take it—Just like the rest
of us. Or shut up.
GPsE/ST SOCtPTy
BILLY MANN
Red and Black Editor
Remember
A Day Then
Our minds will wander Wednes
day hs we watch Lyndon B. John
son. in a business suit, assume the
toughest job in the world, really on his own for the first
time. We will remember a cold, clear January day in
1961, when youthful, bushy-haired and hatless John F.
Kennedy took the same oath and shook the same hands—
and pronounced himself a dead man.
He is dead now, and his
successor, less refined and
reflecting a different variety
of folksiness, is ready to be
gin his travel down the
thousand Dallas streets of
the United States, waiting
for, but not expecting, the
shot that we hope never will
come.
This is The Great Society
he speaks of. One in which
a maladjusted little crackpot
with a mail-order rifle—
which he bought exercising
one of his "God-given
rights”—can, with three
pulls of a trigger, alter the
lives of millions.
JOHNSON WILL work, he
said, to form this Great
Society, hut when tt is form
ed, what will he have? Still
a society in which a man can
kill off his co-inhabitants
just as surely with a politi
cal maneuver as with an Ita
lian rifle. But this, they say,
is "The American Way.”
And we can’t go around
tampering with that, can
we?
This is the American way
that Eugene Talmadge had
in mind wlie he established
his dynasty in Georgia. It is
Johnson’s American way of
television broadcasting. It is
the Amertcan way demon
strated by John Kennedy's
father, as he made his
tainted millions, and by
Kennedy himself, as he
strong-armed the steel In
dustry into line.
Lyndon Johnson won’t
have Robert Frost Wednes
day, and he won't have full-
dress tails. But he still will
have his full working know
ledge of the American way,
the method be will use to
mold The Great Society.
Let's hope h i s building
doesn't belch back.
The minister of student
functions occupies a seat on
the newly-created cultural
affairs committee, which is
making progress in bringing
"top” entertainment to this
campus.
The principal problem en
countered by this committee
is in booking entertainment
for the current school year.
Most of the better entertain
ers are booked at least a
year in advance, and the
committee is in fact now
involved in seeking enter
tainers for the 1965-66
school year.
EVERY AVENUE is being
investigated in lining up
programs for spring quarter,
and if entertainers who
merit our consideration are
available, they will be pro
cured.
The minister of student
functions assists in coordi
nating all form of pro-
fesslonal entertainment
brought to this campus In
an effort to avoid duplica
tions In a specific type of
program, and to insure the
wholesomeness and diversity
of programs.
Great strides are being
made in providing our cam
pus with an ample program
of classical and popular en
tertainment. Hopefully the
University of Georgia will
soon offer a program of en
tertainment which will
compare with (that of)
schools which have a long
tradition in this area.
Phi Kappa Retorts to Mann Column
To the Editor:
I extend to you my
heartiest congratulations.
You have proved to the
readers of the Red and
Black that you are a cham
pion speller and connoiseur
of fine stationery; but even
more important, you have
shown tha the accusations
of Phi Kappa Literary So
ciety are true.
Only in such grat publi
cations as None Dare Call It
Treason, The Daily Worker,
and the Red and Black is
there such flagrant
examples of slanted news
and statements taken out of
context. I challenge you, sir,
to print the entire article
that Phi Kappa presented.
You have exceptional
ability—one may even call
it genius—in attacking the
diminutive faults of the
article. However, in defend
ing the Red and Black
stand, your genius is lacking
greatly. Is it possible that
the R&B’s stand cannot be
defended?
J. T. Bryan Jr.
I'mldrnt. I*h! Kappa
To the Editor:
. . . Instead of putting the
words of Phi Kappa in a
news story where your
readers could examine the
undisturbed copy, you took
quotations from it out of
context and had the giant
of the journalistic profes
sion, Billy Mann, use it in
his column.
Your treatment of the
Phi Kappa resolution rather
than the words of the so
ciety itself showed how un
biased you are.
It is clear that you must
be bucking for a job with
the Atlanta newspapers, be
cause you certainly use their
tactics. The description of
you as “the Augusta Courier
of the left” certainly hit
home.
Marsha Tipping
Junior
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