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Editorials • J\eb anb JSlatb • Opinions
A Good Session
Eleven student lenders met with University President
l)r. < >. <’. Aderliuld to discuss the future of the Univer
sity and current policies Wednesday. The discussion was
off the record, but every student attending the meet
ing was impressed by Dr. Aderhold’s forthright manner
and willingness to answer questions.
The discussion brought out a little-known aspect of
Dr. Aderhold’s administration. Known for his part in
making possible the additions to the physical plant of
the University, Dr. Aderhold cited figures to show im
provement in academic programs.
Most encouraging is the increase in doctorates award
ed. With PhD's being produced at a higher rate in
tieorgin, the need to attract educators from outside the
state will not be as great in the future as it would have
been otherwise. Since graduate programs will comprise
a high percentage of the growth of the University in
the next few years, the need for more instructors will
be acute.
It was not disclosed at this meeting who the next pres
ident will be. Hut those who attended the meeting left
more certain than ever that the University has been
in good hands during Dr. Aderhold’s term. Whoever
replaced him will have a difficult test matching Dr.
Aderhold’s record.
ft’s the Driver
Figures released this week show that more than 52,000
persons were killed in traffic accidents in the United
States in 1966. This is a record, and another record
probably will be set this year.
Despite the publicity given defects in new cars, flaws
in manufacturing account for a tiny percentage of all
accidents. The responsibility for a wreck usually belongs
to the driver. Even when it isn’t, it is of little satisfaction
to have for a last, fading thought, "It was the car’s
fault."
The streets on and near the University campus fre
quently are visited by tow-trucks. Often the mangled
metal the trucks remove will never again be fit to oper
ate as a motor vehicle. Sometimes the occupants of
these vehicles do not fare well, either. Students say
Athenians don’t know how to drive and cause accidents.
Athenians say the equivalent about the driving habits of
students, and all too often they are justified.
Being right is of little help after an accident. It is
better to yield the right of way than fight for it. Many
accidents, especially in Athens, occur when one driver
fails to yield to another driver who has made a mistake
lie cannot take back.
An example of this happened last week. A driver made
a left-hand turn, unaware that a car was approaching
him from an opposing lane. The turning ear was hit by
the other ear, which did not yield until its driver saw he
was on a collision course.
Fortunately, neither car was greatly damaged. This
is the kind of accident, however, that causes many
deaths.
Today's ears may he poorly made, but speeding and
careless driving will always cause more accidents than
will careless engineering.
Showing Their Class
This year’s senior class officers deserve congratula
tions for their effort in lessening the inevitable confu-
ion which surrounds senior activities by publishing
Deadline for Seniors, a publication which deals with
everything from graduation to placement services.
The pamphlet is only one in a series of services provid
ed by President Hnllie Harris and Secretary Nancy Sins
this year which have been most valuable for the many
seniors who must not only go through the various chan
nels and processes of graduation, but must also take
care of grade changes, correspondence courses and sen
ior re-exams.
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Editor
Clay Jennings
Ratineii Manager
Larry Sliealy
Mickey Mills
llntcli Seolt, KiclinrtI Moore
Sonny I’nrks
Meg Gross
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Mike Peroff
Murk Aldridge, Kalliy Grady, Harry Franklin,
Sue Harrison, Vir Meyer, I.ynn Carrigan, Ober
Tyus, Grant Weyman, Hayes MrGlaun
Ron Taylor
Managing Editor
News Editor
Associate Editor
Asst. News Editors
Sports KOI tor
Women's Editor
Asst. Huslness Manager
Circulation Manager
News Staff
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MICKEY MILLS
Red and Black Associate Editor
‘Man of the Year’ Must
the magazines tell us must
eventually run things be
cause half the population of
the United States will be 25
or under soon; a generation
which is better educated and
more involved than any in
history, I sometimes wonder
why we shouldn't ever
"trust anyone over 35?”
While many of those 35
and over are trying their
darndest to make things
tick, too many of us under
35 blindly protest and make
ourselves heard (often
quite obnoxiously) without
offering true-blue construc
tive criticism and taking an
active rather than a passive
role in political, business or
professional affairs.
We are now spending our
time on the outside of things
Being a part of a generation which
some say is somehow “different” from
[>ast generations; a generation which
looking in. We protest and
criticize, but we seldom talk
of actively and practically
involving ourselves in life,
which we must eventually
do. A few do participate in
political campaigns, but on
ly a few. The peaceful civil
rights demonstrations are
certainly commendable.
Right now, we seem to
enjoy the art of Camp
(whether it he in music, mo
tion pictures, literature or
drama) which is actually
nothing more than an at
tempt to he bad—not good.
In some cases, we have lost
the taste for excellence and
ridicule those who haven’t.
We all learn to curse ear
ly, but recently it has be
come proper to use "naugh
ty little words” in the open.
Time magazine, in one of its
medium’s various analyses
of youth, says one of the
weapons young people use
today is the “Gross-out.”
brewed in part from “post-
Chatterley obscenity.” “The
Gross-out—or ‘garbage
mouth’—is a blunter . . .
weapon. A group of young
people in a club dominated
by adults will suddenly be
gin chanting four-letter
words, louder and filthier all
the time, until they have
completely disrupted the
scene.”
We can gain no respect
nor any accomplishments
(once we find out what we
are trying to accomplish) by
being purposely obnoxious—
and "naughty.” It’s bewild
ering why too many of us
have such an intense fasci
nation with the simple pro
cess of animal excrement
such that we must yell its
adjectives in the face of an
ambassador if we are not, on
the other hand, burning our
draft cards.
While we are said by an
alysts to be taking an in
creasing interest in the prac
tical aspects of life, we are
also said to be “alienated,”
lonesome and despondent.
Our generation has (some
times unjustifiably) become
known for the use of drugs,
increasing suicide rates and
alcoholism.
We may not be as “cool”
and collected as we think.
If we keep drifting, we may,
indeed, be “beat.”
It is an old cliche to say
that the churches (most
notably the Protestant chur
ches and religion) are in
trouble with youth, and yet
the magazines say that we
are constantly striving to
find a belief in religion
based on a belief in God.
We defy the police (some
of us literally, most of us on
ly in “bull-sessions”) and
call-’em-cops, when we
Grow Up
know that we and those ov
er 35 both would fall apart
within 24 hours if we didn’t
have the POLICEMEN (or
"cops” if you’re talking in a
"bull-session”).
If anything is proved by
this anti-police resentment
of authority, it’s that stu
dents want to run their own
lives. (But if they’ve had
political science 101, they
would forget about "cop"
and start trying to figure
out why for some reason we
have to have government).
And yet, it’s commend
able that this generation has
so much on the ball, even
though like most genera
tions it is mixed-up. But the
point is, when will too many
of us move from the four-
letter words and beer to
"what MUST we do about
this?”
Some of us have made a
good start about becoming
a part of the human com
munity: we have the stu
dent rights riots at Berkeley
on one extreme to the more
sophisticated and sensible
negotiating with the admin
istration for such rights at
the University.
Once again may I quote
from a magazine — Time
again: "With his skeptical
yet humanistic outlook, his
disdain for fanaticism and
his scorn for the spurious
(which is debatable—
m.c.m.), the Man of the
Year, (Time means youth),
suggests that he will infuse
the future with a new sense
of morality, a transcendent
and contemporary ethic that
could infinitely enrich the
‘empty society.’ If he suc
ceeds . . . the Man of the
Year will be a man indeed—
and have a great deal of
fun in the process.”
But Time. Life, Look, etc.,
before we can have a lot of
fun: “what MUST we do
about this?”
DAVID GINN
IUh] and Black Columnist
Policeman’s Tag Line No Joke
tell me that there Were no
witnesses, no words, no ill
feelings, . . .
about
Mid-October, 19««.
Thursday night.
6:45.
A boy drove his car up to
a spot near the b&ndroom en
trance, as close as he could
possibly get, and stopped.
No sooner had he climbed
out of the car than out came
a man from the Traffic &
Security Building—a young
man dressed in sport shirt
and slacks.
"You'll have to move that
car,” said the man.
"I’m here on band busi
ness,” the boy told him. "We
gotta load up some drums
and things for the pep rally
at the Coliseum.”
"Doesn't matter,” the man
said again, "you're gonna
have to park it somewhere
else.”
Somewhat irritated and in
a hurry besides, the boy ask-
the man what authority he
had to tell him where to
park a car.
“I'm a campus policeman,"
the man replied.
After a few more words
back and forth, the boy sim-
Dear Marvin Van Vleck,
l’lease tell me it’s not true. Please
tell me that it did not happen. Please
Ply walked away from the
man and into the bandroom.
A few minutes later the boy
came out again with musical
instruments to load them in
the trunk of the car.
A uniformed campus cop
was standing near the car.
The boy asked, "Say, is
that guy who was just out
here really a campus cop?”
The policeman replied,
"Y'es, he is."
“To be a campus police
man. his manner of conduct
was certainly inappropriate.”
The boy talked with the
uniformed policeman some
more, then each went back
to his respective business.
By this time, however, a
small crowd had gathered to
watch for further develop
ments. Several boys were
standing around outside
the green and white Ford
while its owner was inside.
A short while later, the
plain-clothes policeman re
turned from the Traffic &
Security Building with his
uniformed associate.
The plain-clothes man
walled around to the rear
of the boy’s car, toak out a
notebook, knelt, and be
gan to write.
"What-cha doin?” asked
one boy in the group watch
ing.
"I'm gettin’ his tag num
ber,” the man shot back
curtly, “wanna do somethin’
about it?"
"N°—no, I was just won
dering what you were do
ing.”
The man finished writing.
He stood up.
“You can tell that boy,"
he said to the bystander,
“that I’ve got his tag num
ber and I’m gonna remem
ber this car. And when I see
it on campus, and I'm on
duty—no matter where it is
—I’m gonna give him a tic
ket.”
• • •
. . . please tell me that you
do not have a man like this
on your campus police force.
Tell me.
Then, make me believe it.
Student Tempers R & B
To the Editor:
^ ith all due respect to
press, I think it only proper
to the medium in which you
While recognizing the
need for the vocalization of
various viewpoints. I con
sider your article on Viet
Nam as a disservice to the
University of Georgia and to
the position which you were
entrusted with.
While admitting that I
may be a bit chauvinistic,
I can not believe that your
disloyalty to the United
States effort in Viet Nam
is shared by the majority
your right of freedom of
that you temper your views
express them,
of students. I submit that if
you were a little closer to
the action rather than upon
your pedantic pedestal you
may have a different out
look on the entire matter.
I recommend that you apply
your talents where they
would be appreciated (SDA.
SNCC, Berkeley) and not
where they allegedly reflect
the yiews of the University
of Georgia.
Captain, USMC, student