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We Believe...
Wo don't condono thimhI discrimination.
We d on’t condone racial dcinonst rat ions.
Wo mitrlil oven lie called “radical middlc-of-the-road-
crH.’’
Wo rocogfnizc that each man, no matter what his color,
religion, etc., has the same civil rights, is entitled to the
same voting rights, to cat in the same restaurants, to
go to tin- same schools, as any other.
lint we don't recognise mass demonstrations, riots, or
other disturbances as legitimate or effective methods for
ensuring or obtaining these rights.
And we don’t recognize the right of state or local
police to use unnecessary violence to control these
demonstrations.
A civil rights leader is killed in his home. A mother of
five who traveled 1000 miles to participate in a racial
demonstration is shot. Police are heat by rioting mobs,
and reporters and photographers are attacked by both
sides. These are all the products of an over-excited socie
ty, of people who became mobs because they followed
fanatical leaders on one side or the other like so mnny
cattle, rather than bothering to think about the situation.
Indeed, they remind one of a flock of highly excited
turkeys, running all over themselves in their confusion,
and getting nowhere.
We cannot offer a solution which would satisfy every
one concerned. Neither can anybody else. So, as is true
hi international power politics, those with the most
power behind them win.
We only ask that as much patience as possible be
practiced by both sides. Is it too much to ask that, one
man attempt to show a little understanding for nnothert
We would advocate a slow, steady movement forward,
using the courts instead of mass marches to gnin the
objective. There would be fewer hard feelings, fewer
deaths by violence, and surer progress than with present
methods.
Fop Performers—At Last
University students, TiUci Raines Johnson, the Cul
tural Affairs Committee, and the 1FC have all bnnded
together to prove two things which we all have really
known for a long time.
First, they proved the University is capable of draw
ing top entertainment artists for concerts. Miss Johnson
brought Stan (let/., who ranks with Dave Rrubeck as tops
tli modern jazz, to the campus. The newlv-formed Cul
tural Affairs Committee brought opera great Jan Peerce
and the great gravel-voiced Satehmo. 1FC, taking up the
challenge, brought Johnny Mathis, who in turn outdid
himself with his Young Americans.
Most of ns agree these artists are improvements over
Lester Flntt and Karl Scruggs, and some of us like them
hotter than the Four Seasons.
University students then proved they could appreciate
this level of entertainment, and, indeed that they were
almost starved for good entertainment, by the receptions
they gave the performers.
(ietz and Decree were called back for several encores,
and Armstrong and Mathis received standing ovations.
We are pleased beyond words with the entertainment,
those responsible for lining up these performers, and
University students. And with the promise of the Nor
man Lubnff Choir and Roger Williams for next year, it
looks like our pleasure may be here to stay.
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We only hope that we w ill continue having entertain-
rnt of this caliber, and not regress to Lester and Karl.
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Frank While
.Vrir* Editor
h'"* News Editors
S|M>rls Editor
Women's Fit I tor
Society Killtor
Society Staff
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„ ■ . Bookkeeper
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Itonalil Tit)lor. Janet Wells News Staff
Jimni) Itonalil Photographer
Itick Honovau Cartoonist
Nellie Fowler, Jaekie
Oanny Strickland
Waril)n King
Muriel I'rlteliett
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Volume I.WIV
Number 40
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Red and Black Columnist
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RON MUSSELWHITE
Rod and Black Killtor
College Press—Image Maker?
Last quarter a group of college editors
from throughout the state assembled at
the Uniyersity to organize a Georgia Col
legiate Press Association.
An editorial in an exchange paper we
have Just received from Brenau College
referred to an Issue brought up and argued
at the convention:
Institutional "Image”
versus freedom of the
collegiate press. Bre
nau took the un
popular stand.
To quote the edi
torial in the Brenau
Alchemist:
"The late Arthur
Brisbane believed
that the editorial
writer's opportunity
was four-fold: he could teach, attack, de
fend and praise. \V r e believe this, with
some modifications for school publica
tions.”
The paper went on to quote the advisor
to tho Dally Iowan from the University
of Iowa: " 'I do not believe in absolute
freedom for the student press. ... I bo-
lteve that the student newspaper owes
something to Its university and that It
can further the ‘Image’ of the college
Here it is, another year has rolled
by, and it is time for the Academy
Awards again. Our screen idols wait
impatiently for the big night when the truth is told.
Well, since someone is already handling that facet of
award-giving, I will turn my attention to handing out some
little known, but well deserved and long overdue citations,
some of them meant seriously, and other just true on paper!
The ballots are In (were was; the award was a 16 pound
they ever out?) and the count- hunk of rock salt with a silver
lng Is over. It’s all done but pick, mounted in a gold relief
the cheering. The People’s pedestal of Siberia.
Choices: FORTHCOMING ACTOR.
POLITICAL MISTAKE OF BEST IN Hls CATEGORY: I
THE CENTURY: Lyndon B. know his name, but the
Johnson and Barry Ooldwater award mu8t gQ tQ th0 , mle „
tied for this one, Johnson for ln „ The sn ence •»
winning, Ooldwater for just
getting nominated. The award S J 01 T 1 v ® "
was ln the form of a giant gold fESS AWARD: George Wal-
egg ln a platinum nest, duly lace - governor of Alabama, for
Inscribed. resisting the forces of evil
OUTCAST OF THE YEAR: above and beyond the call of
Obviously Nikita S. Khruschev, s wrsrm
having been bounced as he MOST UNIMAGINATIVE
6 PERSON OF THE YEAR: To
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen for
naming the new stadium sim
ply “Atlanta Stadium” Instead
of something with some Imagi
nation.
SMART MOVE OF THE
YEAR: To Benjamin C. Kinney,
head of University Plant Opera
tions, for deciding to make a
new co-op out of Memorial
Hall.
BULLY OF THE YEAR:
Awarded en masse to the 60-
odd Alabama state troopers
who advanced on the on-com
ing line of demonstrators. Now,
fellas, we could have done
without all that tear-gas.
THIEF OF THE MONTH:
To whoever stole my hooks
while I was working ln the
bookstore, supposedly watching
for anyone pilfering or stealing
things.
BUTTINSKY OF THE
MONTH: Awarded simultan
eously to President Lyndon B.
Johnson and Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach, for stir
ring up all that mess ln Selma.
And last but not least . . .
MOST GULLIBLE MAN OF
THE YEAR, THAT IS, CEN
TURY: Awarded to Martin
Luther King Jr. Someone
pulled the 100% lamb’s wool
over hls eyes and led him to
believe he can get Governor
George Wallace impeached. It
takes a majority in both houses
of the Alabama legislature to
impeach the governor. Ha!
without compromising any of Its in
tegrity.’ We definitely believe this, for we
don’t think the paper should become a
‘gripe-sheet’ for some dyspeptic students
to air complaints. We DO want to present
the true picture of life at Brenau."
A true picture of life is what all news
papers, college or not, supposedly try to
present. But it was these Brenau girls
who agreed with their advisor when she
complained about a newspaper at a well-
known “society” girls’ school which
printed a story about some students there
who were arrested for shoplifting. Seems
she thought it "hurt the school’s Image.”
This “true picture of life” Includes both
sides of life, and It is the obligation of a
newspaper to keep the public informed
of the bad as well as the good, regardless
of "image.”
In J-School, we learn about responsible
Journalism. Fortunately, Red and Black
editors are given the opportunity to prac
tice what they have learned without the
eternal shadow of a censor hovering over
hls shoulder with a blue pencil or being
afraid of endangering the UGA "Image.”
We’ll try to live up to what we see as
our responsibility, and take pity on those
who don’t have or refuse to take advan
tage of the opportunity to do so.
LETTERS
to the editor
Subjectivity in Grading
The lied and It lark welcomes letters on any sub
ject pertinent to and involving University students.
The editor reserves the right to edit letters to con
form to style, good taste, spare limitations and libel
laws.
Letters should be typewritten and should not ex
ceed J00 words.
.Vo unsigned letters trill be printed, but names map
be withheld upon request.
Being fresh from last
quarter’s sacrifice on the
altar of Subjectlvity-ln-
Grading-ls-a-Good-T h 1 n g ,
and feeling unjustly robbed
of a letter grade, at least, I
am keenly interested in
which SubJectivity-ln-Grad-
lng is a good thing?
The kind of subjectivity I
find myself wary of Is that
most often lauded before the
hard-working student when
the professor grandly an
nounces he does not care for
the opinions or attitudes ex
pressed by the student ln
answering hls question cor
rectly. In other words, sub
jectivity is for many teach
ers a matter of how well his
students conform to his idea
of the ideal student.
Too often, a teacher's idea
of the ideal student exempts
those who wear beards; on
the other hand, there are
many who Just naturally
don't like people who shave.
It all bolls down to the
tact that the student him
self probably knows as much
or more about the quality
of hls performance as the
teacher could ever know ln
relation to the student's
abilities and long-range In
terest in the material pre
sented him. since the teach
er’s time and Insight are so
often limited and distracted.
Logically then, since the
student has freely chosen to
attend the University, and
since he Is theoretically con
scientious, and since we
must be graded on our per
formance at frequent inter
vals, grading should be a
sort of compromise between
Btudent and teacher, arrived
at after numerous confer
ences and private sessions
during the course of the
quarter.
I suggest the only way to
achieve such a goal Is the
discouraging and dismissing
of uninterested or self-in
dulgent teachers and the re
cruiting of more serious and
conscientious students.
Terry Hill Pickett
Junior
Parking
To the Editor:
I agree completely with
Dr. Krusberg's letter of
March 2 about your editorial
demands for more student
parking. Whereas students
may want cars in Athens for
social reasons, there is no
good reason why those who
live closer than a mile
should expect the University
to provide campus parking
for them.
After all, we are young
and do have legs. And those
whose feet hurt can always
purchase bicycles, which
cost less, take less parking
space, and are healthier
than cars. Fashionable on
other campuses, too.
Let's stop this silly busi
ness of driving those few
blocks to campus. Some of
my best friends even drive
to physical classes.
Marvin Grady
Sophomore