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r Page Two THE CAMPUS ECHO Member r} ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS The CAMPUS ECHO, official student publication at North Carolina College at Durham, is published monthly during the regular school year. Subscription rate, $1.50 per school year. Second class mail privilege authorized at Durham, N. C. THOMAS LEE CAMERON MCHARD FIKES SAIXYE STREETER CYNTHIA McDONAUJ. JOSIE SIMONS - VJ ' UENWOOD DAVIS * AdvertMnO WILLIE HALL SaMOnTyNCH Manager sss howSd ,v. "'““r™ “ss CHESTER MALLORY c^o^Wrtter* JOHN HENDERSON. HAYWOOD L. BRADLEY ' CHARLES McNEIL. HAROLD HAUSER Columnists Reporters Elsie Arrington. Gerald Simmons, Bruce Speight. Finley H“rget^ Jarman, Marva Roberts, Dorothy Taylor, Elizabeth Jones. Shirley Foust, Edward Oray, Pumelle Richardson. Ti/oists I Geraldine WiUiamson. Blanche Caldwell. Florence Handy, Flosale Jone«. i bicinda Ross. ' _ .Advitar ' JBAN NORRIS Need To Negotiate Students here have staged a sit-down protest against certain rtores downtown which have segregated lunch counters. While the «ffiriai position of the College is that a negotiation should be effec tive, consensus among students is that there is no need to negotiate, *dnce all the stores have to do is to open their counters to the general public, regardless of race. In their rational minds they can see no reason that time should be wasted in negotiation while the age-old policy of segregation still prevails. In effect we also see no need to negotiate in a purely theoretical sense; however, if this were in truth a complete democracy this sttuat’ion would not exist. In the world of reality, we feel that now is the time of negotiation, if purely for the sake of “public interest, ’ » tern^^^e much overused but whicl^ serves in the same light downtown iptorep us^d ^t. ^ tiRi''’ .vi'4nt Government President is only lukewarm In favor of negotiation. He will have nothing to do with the Collegers state ment, although he was present at the meeting at which it was writ ten. The leaders in the protest—that is, the students who initiated It ^were not invited to the meeting at which the statement was drawn, but this is not a reflection on the president of the College, for be was one of the last persons to know of the situation and no one wanted to inform him. The students, throughout, have maintained that they were acting as individuals, not as representatives of NCC, and hence did not want to be officially connected with the College, The committee which decided the position of the College were the «fficers of the Student Government, the Student Welfare Com mittee, the editor of the Campus Echo and Dr. Elder. In truth this was a representative group. The leaders of the protest have said that they will continue to do as planned, regardless of the position of the College. We sympathize with the Students who will continue the move ment, and we foresee no other way of attaining our goal of equality but by such methods. We believe that a time comes for compromise, bowever. And when two parties are willing to sit and talk, maybe; some real good can be accomplished. While not wanting to make ourselves hated, we feel that when the other side will talk, let them talk. We feel strongly that negotiations cannot be profitable unless someone is willing to give something. The students will not accept counters, or a line down the middle of the counter—this, too, is segregation. Therefore, we carmot envision half segregation; it must be all one thing or all the other. Perhaps the last battle of the Civil War has not yet been fought; but it is not who wins the battle, but who wins the war. The war is already won. Segregation is dated, it being defeated in 1954. Perhaps its proponents are interested now in how well they fought. The Dining Hall Situation Students are unsatisfied and bitterly complaining about the situation in the dining hall. They have criticized instructors marking them absent or late from class when it has taken them over an hour to be served, and resented having to buy from the Canteen or the local store in order not to be late for class or to waste time in the exhausting ordeal of waiting. The administration has been unjustifiably accused and blamed for this. However, for the sake of grace and fairness, we must say that what is needed is a new and larger dining hall, and this comes only by money. And as we all know, the State holds the money purse. The dining hall situation shall cease to be an odious situation when appropriations are made for a new one. Only then will it be possible to accommodate the unexpectedly large student body. While, not asking the students to be complacent, we do advisei ' tolerance. SmrtWT t Coia Sorry, Charlie, that, too, is segregation! 'Act One' Merits Other Acts “Two and Three” By Cynthia McDonald Act One is a delightful auto biography and a sincere effort by an outstanding American playwright and director to re cord his personal and pro fessional life completely so as to show how he developed as a writer. It is a candid book about la chap, inciden- |tally named I Moss Hart, who fell in love with Jthe theatre when he was seven yVars old, y^who maintained '|:that love ‘^through failure, McIiONALD chagrin, n e a n starvation and who was willing to admit with utter frankness that the money he eventually made was one of the most plea sant things ever to happen to him. Along the way he encoun tered Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Sam Harris and Alex ander Woollcott. His portrait of Kaufman is particularly af fectionate. Mr. Hart was the son of a cigar-maker whose handiwork could not compete with newly invented machines, and his childhood might have been ut terly blighted were it not for his Aunt Katey, an incurably ro mantic spinster, who insisted on taking him to see plays two and three times a week even when the money might have been better used to feed the gas meter. She provided, says Hart, a “small patch of lunatic bright ness” in an otherwise dark period. When he was seventeen he managed to enter the theatre world as office boy to Augustus Pitou, “King of the Night Stands,” who hired Anne Nichols to provide the material for the istock companies he sent across the land. Miss Nichols withdrew when “Abie’s Iris Rose” made it unnecessary for her to work another stitch, and the young office boy, writing under a pseudonym, attempted to fill the gap with his first play, “The Beloved Bandit.” It was disaster for everyone concerned with the production. When he was eighteen, Moss Hart turned to acting. He got on the stage ii^ a production of “The Emperor Jones,” and then became a di rector of little theatre groups with the help of a widely talen ted, if undisciplined fellow, called Edward Chodorov. It was Chodorov who intro duced him to the world of sum mer c^mps and social directing. and though Hart rose in the hierarchy of social directors, meeting on the way a chap call ed Dore Schary, he turned again to playwriting, the very, very serious kind. A chance remark dropped by a producer that he might be better at comedy caused him to try it. He wrote a play called “Once in a Life time,” and with the completior^ of the script a series of bizarre adventures began that eventual ly led to a hit. The success he was seeking is evidenced in his works “The Man Who Came To Dinner,” You Can’t Take It With "You ^nii “Lafiy In The Dark.” ^ Hart gives account of hia years as social director in sum mer camps, and a hilarious backward glance at the theatre of the 1930’s. Mr. Hart has designed Act One in order that there may* later be “Acts Two and Three.” It is evident that the “drama” is not over. Easily read and thoroughly entertaining, the book is excel lent leisure reading. It is now available in the college library. DAVIS FINDS Friday, February 26, 1960 LEITERS Heroic Struggle Dear Friends, I forward the enclosed ma terial for your information. At its special meeting of Wednes day, February 17th, the Student Council of City College of New York passed my motion by ac clamation. We will act shortly. The heroic struggle of the stu dents at Durham has won the respect of all students at CCNY. May you have victory in that struggle! If there is any way in which we can help you, please do not hesitate to write me. Sincerely, Fred Mazelia City College New York City Congratulations Dear Students, Congratulations to you for the very worthwhile endeavor in the Woolworth protest along with your protests on others. People everywhere are truly proud of you. Keep the good work up regardless of what happens. May God bless you in your stand for what is rightfully yours. Sincerely yours, David L. Price Hampton, Va. Student Protest In the student sit-down pro test on stores which practice! segregation in one form of an- cfther, iStiKfents'imna^iy areas oJ North Carolina have shown their disfavor in the traditional policy at many of the counters where Negro patrons cannot sit for service. I think we (the stu dents at North Carolina College) and jOther educational schools should stick together, until all counters serve on a non-segre- gated basis. Then the world can begin to enjoy equality. Sincerely yours, Carl Hawthorne Out-Of-State Student Increase By Lenwood G. Davis Is North Carolina College be coming an institution for the out-of-state student? Probably not, but an increas ing number of students from other states are coming to this college every year. Although there are numerous reasons for this trend, perhaps the academic reasons are the best. In all, there are 136 put-ofl state students as compared with last year’s 123 students. The lar gest numbers are from New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvai nia. Of the 75 in this group, there are 40 from New York, 20 from Virginia, and 15 from Pennsylvania. Another reason for attending North Carolina College is, per haps, best expressed by Ocie Holt, from Elizabeth, New Jer sey. Mr. Holt said, “I chose North Carolina College because it has an “A” rating with the North Carolina State Depart ment of Education, the Ameri can Medical Association and it is a member of the Southern As sociation of Colleges and Secondary Schools. There is no doubt in my mind that this is one of the finest colleges in the South and in the United States.” Thelma Upperman from Ja maica, New York said, “I chose North Carolina College because it was recommended to me by my aunt. North Carolina Col lege, however, was no^ my original choice, but, since I have been here for two years I might as well finish here. Perhaps, if it were not for the friendliness of the boys as well as the girls I would have transferred my freshman year.” As the CAMPUS ECHO goes to press the following break down of out-of-state students has been compiled: Alabama, 2; Conneticut, 4; District of Co lumbia, 7; Florida, 7; Georgia, 8; Louisiana, 1; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, 7; New Jersey, 10; New York, 40; Ohio, 4; Pennsylvania, 15; South Caro lina, 7; Virginia, 20; Washing ton, 1; and Liberia, 2. There was at least one disen chanted out-of stater, Herbert Owens from Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Owens, a Business Adminis tration student, said, “Frankly I do not know why I chose this college. Perhaps, I just wanted to visit the South. At first I did not like it; however, now since I have so many friends here it would be almost heartbreaking to leave.” The totals grow larger rather than smaller, and it is more than likely that out-of-state are her
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