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Let Private Companies
Build New Dormitories
A pood case )ihn been made for the eooperation of
government and private enterprise by a study committee
of the (ieorpm House of Representatives.
The group, headed by Clarke County Rep. Chappel
Matthews, recommended that private companies be al
lowed to construct dormitories so that the money spent
for such purposes by the state can be channeled into
classroom construct ion.
Over nine million dollars of the University’s budget
presently is cornered into either the actual building or
scheduled building of dorms. One doesn’t have to use
much imagination to realise what this amount of money
could do for the much needed expansion of classroom
space and facilities.
And these additional funds can be had if the state
allows private enterprise to build the dorms, a fine
example of which is the often complimented Oglethorpe
House.
University Should Close
During tee and Snow
The I Diversity at least put some gravel on the cam
pus sidewalks during the recent snow blasts. 1 tut the
city of Athens did precious little to help the cause of
safety. Even the streets were only semi-passable.
And sure enough because of this type of ill prepara
tion, the accidents did occur. The infirmary reports
numerous cases of minor contusions, lacerations and a
few broken limbs. One fellow, reportedly, bad a rather
serious fall in an accident occurring near LeConte Hall
Monday morning.
This one case is enough to warrant the University call
ing ofl classes on days like we have been experiencing of
late. It seems to us that this would have been a very
sound move, even if it did mean having to go to Satur
day classes at some later date.
Afterall, several local businesses as well as schools of
[Clarke and surrounding counties closed during the big
! white mess Hut UHA stayed open. Enough said.
New Center Needed
Although a four and one half million dollar student
center has I listed as an immediate building need in
University President O. ('. Aderhold’s annual report, it
; is yet to be officially authorized.
The center would contain, among other things, a
'multi-purpose auditorium, bowling lanes and a movie
theater. I he Red and ltlaek feels tin* need for such a
building is beyond question and has been for a long
time We urge the .money be appropriated for a new
student center as quickly as possible.
ICE WATE? ?
NURSE ; THAT »$ NOT
FUNNY !
MICKEY MILLS
Red and Black Editor-In-Chief
My Hometown:
An Example
MY HOMETOWN, like similar Georgia
communities of about 4,500 people, is a
pleasant place, optimistic about the new
industry it's trying to lure into the town but unpleasantly
conscious of the fact that if it doesn’t succeed in expanding
economically at a rapid pace, it will die.
And, like similar communities In Georgia, when the Civil
Rights Bill of 1964 became law this town realized it must
maintain congenial race relations if it were to become attrac
tive to companies scouting for new areas of development. Of
course it had always had an atmosphere of relaxed “coexis
tence" between the whites and Negroes; the voter registra
tion records even showed the county ns being near the top
in the percentage of Negroes casting ballots.
BI T MANY THOUGHT THE NEW legislation by Congress
could change not only this well-balanced civic harmony, but
the Negroes as well. So a new community project was launch
ed—unpublicized—which saw to it that the Negroes received
almost the same recreational and civic benefits as the whites.
Organizations joined hands and businesses made donations
to the cause of continued harmony between the races.
Now there are “nearly” two for each. However, there will
be some Negroes, probably young ones, who will ask, “Why
can’t there be just one for all?”
GEORGIA WAS SLOW to learn that it cost twice as much
to build two schools, two swimming pools, two stadiums, etc.
when one could have sufficed. They settled for one of each in
the later 1800’s before the KKK got the segregation kick
going.
And two of each will surely slow down a small town trying
to make ends meet and trying to fight for existence. Too
many towns in this state are facing the same problems, al
though they have a common remedy if they would only make
use of it.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Society Does It Again
To the Editor:
LAST WEDNESDAY the Demostheninn Literary
Society added insult to injury by condemning the
N.A.A.C.P. for being Communist-founded and pro-Com-
munist-in-effect.
The racist majority over
rode the pleas of reason and
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common sense. Everyone
knows the NAACP is strong
ly anti-Communist, but the
tyranny of the majority did
with a few isolated and ob
scure events.
If this is the road the
South must travel, then per
haps it is better for the Rus
sians to bomb us.
Respectfully,
to love their country and
kill anyone who threatens
their country. Then they are
told who is threatening their
country and are sent out to
kill him. Of course, many
of our men die, since the
enemy has been taught the
same thing.”
“Your system is also bar
barian,” he said.
Russell Jones
Sophomore
FRANK WHITE
IUmI nml lllitrk .\KMM'iiitc l illtor
Americana Are Losing
Cultural ‘Sacred Cows 9
AMERICANS SEEM to be rapidly losing more and more of their
cultural "sacred cows.”
\\ ben someone puts out a film with publicity releases screeching,
*“ ■* sophisticated
“something to offend every
one,” it seems to me, this
represents quite a signifi
cant change.
Tony Richardson's “The
l.ovod One” is only another
milestone in n long series of
films and books represent
ing a turn toward more real
istic themes for an evermore
American
dlence.
SINGE THE IIMO's,
American films and books
have taken considerably
more daring themes. Films
like "Peyton Place," "Blue
Denim” and "Suddenly Last
Summer,” ns well ns the
more recent "Dr. Strange-
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love" helped to blaze the
wny for n more intellectual
ly responsible film audience.
Rooks like William Gold
ing's “Lord of the Flies,”
J. D. Salinger's "The Catch
er in the Rye" and John
Updike's "Rabbit Run" help-
mi do the same kind of thing
for the world of book en
thusiasts.
In Richardson's "Loved
One," some of the same de
vices used before in the
highly successful "Tom
Jones" reappear. The haunt
ing beauty and humor evok
ed In the somewhat impres
sionistic srenos In the gard
ens of Whispering Glades
are a particular delight. This
part of the film with its
beautifully sensitive pho
tography of the natural en
vironment, reminds one of
similar scenes in "Tom
Jones.”
Bit'll VRDSOVS STORY
represents n new intellectual
maturity on the part of the
American film industry. The
film shows that American
audienct*s have developed
greater social and intellec
tual maturity ubout subject
matter, that some film mak
ers considered heretofore as
being too awAward.
not rare. It was obsessed Stuart Rado
'Wanderings of a Wanderer'
To the Editor:
IN THE SECOND year of my travels, l came to the
country of Unsidown. T beached my craft and walked
ashore, where 1 was shortly
I was surprised to discov
er he spoke English, and we
were soon engaged in vigor
ous talk. Vpsidown, I learn
ed. was a neutral country
which bordered on another
neutral country, Desrever.
Neither country maintained
an army nor engaged in war.
As my guide was telling me
this, we passed an open
field where I saw men In
uniforms drilling. At this, I
was surprised and asked.
“If you have no army, who
are those men drilling
there?”
met by a native,
time pictures of beaches
strewn with corpses, of
bombs falling and the
houses shattered by those
bombs, of children burned
by phosphorous—all the
nicer aspects of war. Their
reactions are observed and
recorded. Those who act as
if they’ve just been given
candy are inducted forth
with into the ‘army.’ "
“Rl’T," I ASKED, "since
your nation is peaceful, what
does this ‘army’ do?”
“WHY THOSE," he re
plied, “are our mental pa
tients. You see, here In Upsi-
down, we are a' peaceable
people. Violence and de
struction are unknown, ex
cept as carried on hv devi
ants. The people In that
field are all men who have
shown a tendency toward
violence, either by action or
by our tests."
"Tests.?" I asked. "What
kind of tests?"
"Every year, we gather
our young men together, di
vide them “into small groups
supervised by trained ob
servers. and show them pic
tures and films made in .war
time. They see for the first
"They train and drill for
a year, are instructed to
hate every man in a red uni
form. then are sent out to
fight the annual war with
Desrever. which has the
same system, except that
their men are trained to hate
yellow-uniformed men. Nat
urally. their uniforms are
red, ours yellow. Usually,
the two 'armies’ extermi
nate each other.”
“Why—that is barbaric!”
I exclaimed.
"Is it? Well, what is your
system?”
"IN OUR SYSTEM, the
finest of our young men are
selected, trained, taught
Studiers Aren't
Do-Noth ings'
To the Editor;
Some students here think
we all should do everything
we can to change conditions
on the campus and in the
City of Athens.
Others classify their fel
low students as those who do
nothing, those who talk and
those who "do.” I believe
I am “doing” somthing by
attempting to get an educa
tion.
There are those who came
to the University for that
purpose. Perhaps those who
strive to get an education—
not just a sheepskin—will
someday be In a position to
change not only the campus
and the City of Athens, but
the world, and for the bet
ter.
Extracurricular activities
are fine, wonderful in fact.
But don’t those of us who
spend^ our time here getting
an education, some of us
earning the money for it
at the same time, deserve
a better title or classifica
tion than “do nothing?”
Norman Yangtin
Journalism Senior