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CLAIRE SPIKER
Red and Black Editor-Elect
Prospects and Expectations
An editor’s first column is tradition
ally one of prospects and expectations,
and 1 cannot find it in me to veer from
this time-honored tradition.
This is particularly the case since it is probable that the
Red and Black will face changes other than the quarterly re-
election of editors.
With a little luck (luring the Christmas break and a lot of
hard work throughout the past year, the R&B will publish
its first issue of the new year as a full-size, offset publication.
If tliis should be the case, we will have a great deal more
space, and will be able to print as many copies of the paper
as we need. We will be able to run as many pictures as we
wish, including color shots.
With this In mind, the current editors completed a change
in the editorial organization of the elected staff members.
SHARON TATE
Bed mid Black News Editor-Elect
Education Versus
Eight-Hour Shift
“Go to college, kid, and git ye a
education so’se ye won’t havta stnnd
on ver feet eight hours on thte srrave-
the lecture convinced that
I’m a hebephrenic schizoph
renic. I begin to analyze my
every movement and before
long I suspect every kind
ness shown by my friends. I
know they are out to get me.
yard shift in a cotton mill
That's what the folks back
home In North Georgia used
to tell me.
Well, here I am getting
that education. I’m not so
sure it will keep me out of
the cotton mills. It might
keep mo off the graveyard
however—the way things
are going it will put me in
one. For instance I go to psy
chology thinking I’m an ordi
nary human being, striving
to become a journalist. I sit
there and listen to Dr. Bill
Moss ns ho jokingly (?) de
grades the “J" School and
the people therein (as you
studontH of TV psychology
well know) and I wonder if
I’ve chosen the wrong pro
fession. I finally get out of
lnntn bar and night club
owners and said, "Let them
drink milk.” . . . There is a
law still on the books in
Goorgla that requires all lo
comotives lo stop at railroad
crossings . . . Rhon Stadium
would have a sellout crowd If
the officials could get the
Falcons to play the Mots, but
they can't decide whether the
Mets would be better at foot
ball or the Falcons better at
baseball . . .
Maddox may be a "favorite
son” candidate of the Geor
gia delegation nt the 19G8
Democratic Convention. Vir
ginia Maddox has not an
nounced her plans . . . The
guy leading the gospel sing
ing for George Wallace is
Walley Fowler. The folks
back home watch his pro
gram every Sunday morning
. . . Want a thrill Watch
the campus cops try to con-
RON TAYLOR
Bed and Black Associate editor
Pick a Problem
The world is full of problems. 1 would like to pick out a few:
This isn’t the best time of the year to be spreading rumors that
God is dead . . . Lester Maddox stood before a raging mob of At-
trol traffic . . . protest of the population ex
it wnsn’t Incense n few
University students were
burning over In Sanford Stn-
llum after the Florida game
. . Greeks are cute, Indepen
dents, sloppy and non-pnrti-
sans, apathetic . . . The Vlet-
nom war will end. The world
can't last forever . . . The
Marines would get better re
sults if their motto was "The
Marine Corps builds women.’’
. . .Lyndon Johnson is un
popular. but this no longer
bothers George Hamilton . . .
Stockely Carmichael wns
entertaining Mends nt the
Kitten's Corner while his
fellow workers tossed hricks
in Rnmmerhlll during the
riots n couple of summers
ago . . . The answer to prov-
erty in the U.8.: Give every
body lots of money . . . Many
folks nre considering burn
ing their birth certificates In
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Editor
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Claire Spiker
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Volume I,XXIV Number 28
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plosion. . . We take back all
the things wo said about ntu-
dent apathetic—so we can
use them ngnln next quart
er .. .
University students are de
manding a better education.
This is a lot to demand of
American educators . . .
Women students can now
wear slacks. Could it be an
attempt by the administra
tion to keep the coeds' an
kles from showing? . . .
The threat of nuclear war
still hangs over our heads.
The crime rate is increasing.
Millions of people nre dying
every day of starvation . . .
Merry Christmas and Happy
Hanukkah!
Letters Policy
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hicle for opinions on
any subject of interest
to University readers
and are welcomed by
The Red and Black.
Fetters should be type-
written, not exceeding
300 words and are sub-
feet to standard editing.
They should be mftmif-
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names will he withheld
upon reguest.
Then I go to history and
learn that in 1804 a group
known as the Essex Junto
organized a scheme to break
away from the Union and es
tablish a "Northern Confed-
ercy;" Zachary Taylor died
from pneumonia by drinking
too much lemondate after
sitting in 110° weather in
the sun and one time a fel
low whose name my profes
sor couldn't remember was
president for 24 hours when
the newly elected president
whose name my professor
couldn’t remember refused to
be inaugurated on Sunday.
I race down C-J Hill to
Memorial Hall, where for 45
minutes I am educated in
the art of square dancing.
It’s fun. but how will it keep
me out of the cotton mills?
As I race back up the hill,
I notice guys drilling in the
military parking lot. A
thought races through my
mind. Those guys who are out
there drilling probably won't
have to work in the cotton
mills—they'll he put in the
rice paddies.
Graveynrds, mental Insti
tutions, cotton mills, rice
patties. The University of
Georgia.
Beginning winter quarter, there will be only one women’s
editor and one sports editor. Each of these people will have
two paid assistants working with them on both papers.
A paid feature editor will be in charge of all material
which is not strictly news.
A photographic editor will work' with several assistants
in an effort to cover a large number of University functions,
and have a photographer available for emergencies.
These changes, though undoubtedly helpful, will not be
enough to insure a representative University newspaper.
Each editor—feature, news, sports, women’s, photographic
—must have a substantial and competent staff.
These people will have to come from the student body—
from ail schools and not just from the school of journalism.
The Rod and Black is interested in anyone interested
enough to come to our offices and try us out.
We are willing to teach any student as much as we can
about working with the Red and Black. This includes re
porting, writing, make-up and layout, editing, ad infinitum.
We are facing a new era and I feel lucky to be a part of it.
But our changes and improvements will be to no avail if we
do not have an interested, involved staff. I invite you to join
the Red and Black staff.
BUTCH SCOTT
Bed and Black Sports Editor
Give Them
Entertainment
Bill Veeck, that great sports master
mind with an incomparable knack of
luring fans to his ball games, reveals
one of his secrets in the Hustler’s Handbook. His promotion
tip was perfectly executed by Georgia’s basketball team Satur
day night.
Veeck professes that the object in promoting does not stop
once the fan is at the event. He preaches that after the phase
of getting the spectators to come is accomplished, the next
and most important objective is to entertain them—show
them such a good time that they will want to come back for
more.
Entertain is just what the Bulldog squad did in their
season’s opener and in presenting Coach Ken Rosemond with
an opening night win they pulled off the biggest piece of
promotion work in Georgia’s rejuvenated basketball pros
perity.
Rosemond’s masterful blend of old seniors with new sopho
mores stormed through the Coliseum destroying records In
its wake. For its first night’s work the team netted 138 points,
a new Georgia high.
In the deluge of points (a total of 229 was scored) one
Bulldog stood tall among what may develop to be the best
squad in all-time history.
Big Bob Llenhard, the tallest eager ever to wear a Bulldog
jersey, utilized his 6-11 frame to net 44 points, sink 18
field goals and claim 26 rebounds, all new standards.
7,184 turned out to see the opening act of the 1967-68
season, a good crowd but noting close to what a promising
team with such an array of talent deserves. Of course the
weather wns bad and Paul Newman was in town but the
probable lack of attendance came from a probable lack of
enthusiasm. This enthusiasm will come with winning which is
a part of the promotion.
The Bulldogs showed 7,000 enough to make them return
and the news of their deeds should arouse the curosity of
thousands more. Once these newcomers have a good time
they will come hack too.
Georgia won’t always win, and won’t always score 138
points. But the Bulldogs can ne winners , . . mayhe not num
ber one this year . . . but they will be soon.
RICHARD MOORE
Hod and lllack Manauin^ K<litor-Kl<H*t
Different Kind of Horror
Politicians, students and other non-participants are prone to de
bate the ‘justness’ of wars in terms of history, political theory, and
economies.
Those directly involved,
from the soldiers and their
families to the civilians in
the battle areas, have no
time for these debates. The
wife who becomes a widow,
the mother who loses her
only son. the child who is
made homeless are too ab
sorbed in the tragedy of war
for ethical concepts expres
sed in patriotic cliches.
In the Middle East, in Cy
prus, and in Viet Nam, men
will fight and die until the
politicians reach some sort
of a settlement. In the end.
the victors will return to
their impoverished homes
and the losers will return to
theirs. To the people living
in these areas little is chang
ed. The hunger remains
along with the knowledge
that their children will prob
ably not live to maturity.
With the battles fought
thousands of miles away,
Americans are touched by
the horror of war in a dif
ferent manner. The mother
watches as her only son is
drafted and put through six
weeks of basic training and
six more weeks of additional
training in Louisiana.
Fourteen days from the
tear-drenched Friday he left
home, the mother finds a
man in a uniform waiting
for her on the porch. After
less than a week in Viet Nam
her son has been killed on
his first patrol. His wife of
less than a year becomes a
widow at the age of twenty.
Very few people are aware
of this tragedy; to most
people the boy is just a
statistic or at the most, a
name in the hometown news
paper. But if you went to
school together for twelve
years, if you knew his fam
ily. and his ambitions, then
you are touched by the real
horror of war.
Perhaps the Viet Nam
war is a Just, reasonable
war. Certainly politicians
can make the arguments for
their war seem almost ir
refutable at times.
Regardless of any views
or lack of views concerning
Viet Nam, everyone should
stop sometime and consider
the anquUh all wars bring.