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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Friday, April 29, 1960
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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.
TBOIIAS LEE CAMERON Editor-tn-Chtef
RICHARD FIKES Managing Editor
BA-f.T.VTT. STREETER Biuine** ManageT
CYNTHIA McDONAUJ, JOSIS SIMONS Literary Editors
ILXNWOOD DAVIS AdvertMng Managar
wrr.T.nr HAUL Feature Editor
B. C. PETERSON Cartoonist
MARION LYNCH Exchange Manager
LOUISE HOWARD Circulotion Monofler
CHESTER MALLORY Sports Editor
JOHN HENDERSON, HAYWOOD L. BRADLEY Sports Wrtters
CHARLES McNEIL, HAROLD HAUSER Columnists
Reporters
Elsie Arrington, Gerald Simmons, Bruce Speight, Finley Hargett. Cynthia
Jarman, Marva Roberts, Dorothy Taylor, Elizabeth Jones, Shirley Foiist, Edward
Oray, Purnelle Richardson.
Typists , . _
Geraldine Williamson, Blanche Caldwell. Florence Handy, Flossie Jones,
Lucinda Ross.
JBAN NORRIS Adviser
When Prejudice Rules
We have witnessed an irrational act seldom seen on a college
campus—a three-month staff reporter was raised out of prejudice
to the status of editor. Such was the case in the election of Miss
Cynthia Jarman to the editorship of the Campus Echo.
Consensus among students is that few voted for Miss Jarman;
almost all voted against the present editor, solely because of scan
dal and defamatory circulars put out against him. This is a clear
case of negative thinking, something not usually associated with
mature college students. Some in intimate contact with the Echo,
either as students or as administrative officials, asked who
is Miss Jarman. Many were appalled in the administration, and stu
dents working with the Campus Echo have already expressed sym
pathy for the unqualified coed, who has so suddenly taken such an
Herculean Task upon herself. We can surely say that staff members
will have little or no respect for an editor who knows almost
nothing about the operation of the paper, and who in their opinion,
knows less than they. How a student who ha's worked on the staff
for three months and written four stories should abruptly become
•editor in all senses is beyond the credence of well-thinking students.
Significantly being a good writer is not a valid argimient for
eligibility for the editorship. A Campus Echo editor has to spend
most of his time in other operations, such things that a person who
wrote four stories and worked on the staff for three months could
not possibly know. Writing for an editor should be incidental; this,
however, is not the case, at least, not for the Campus Echo. Our
editor-elect has not yet proven that she can write a good news story.
She is solely a creative writer, not a journalist.
In the editorial of Mr. Theodore Gilliam, last year’s editor and
ranking member of his graduating class, he stated a veracity well
worth passing on: “It was most disheartening yet expected—that no
qualified junior or senior was interested enough to run in the racd
;Ior the editorship of the Campus Echo....I say truthfully that I could
not have been as adequate as an editor during my junior year
when the chance was offered to me.” In other words he knew quit«
well how qualified he was. Now persons of long standings with the
£cho hail him as its best editor.
Last year’s advisor to the Echo stated firmly that the editor
Ishould not be elected according to the whims and caprices of Greek
Letter Organizations and irresponsible and unintormea students.
His statement seemingly is not totally without evidence.
At the risk of offending someone, it must be said that the defa
matory statements by Echo Feature Editor Willie Hall are mostly
false. The only statement both true and undesirable is that the edi
tor is lacking in tact. If the editor had had tact, Mr. Hall would have
been asked to resign. Students concede that they voted mostly in
accordance with the views circulated by Mr. Hall’s bulletins. And
Miss Jarman is to be blamed for not redressing her supporter foi*
these scurrilous circulars. When Senators Kermedy and Humphrey,
who incidentally have much more at stake, do so, it is well to be
remembered that some ethics and decorum must be observed even
in politics.
We have nothing but praise for Miss Jarman’s ambition, which
has put many of our prejudiced voters to shame and set a prece
dence that we hope will not continue. It is for the above reason that
- the new Echo Constitution soon to appear before the Student Con
gress will require that a candidate be approved by the Editorial
Board. In this election the recommendation of the Welfare Com
mittee that a candidate have worked on the staff for at least one
year was not followed.
It was a dark day in the annals of the College when the stu
dents voted not in terms of qualifications, but by prejudice. It is a
great letdown in pride, and a greater victory for a kind of prejudice
that Negroes have too long had to contest.
We hope Miss Jarman much luck in the task she has won; she
shall surely need it.
WF COOK
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IV
Hi, Malcolm, How’s Your Protest?
King Has Done About 'Everything'
By Cynthia McDonald
Mine Enemy Grows Older
is the thoroxighly entertaining,
autobiography of Alexander
King, a man who has “dona
everything and knows every
body.”
Unable to live
f ^ Pai’^ter, he
Inicame a book
illustrator; be-
|fore he had
I finished he had
illustrated 64. ..
^ books ranging
i^from those of
Dean Swift to
Eugene O’Neill..
McDONA^ But he also, in
one preposterous week end,
translated Ovid—though ha
knew no Latin. During another
period he managed, under nine
different names, to work as art
artist for a Madison Avenue ad
vertising agency. He tells of his
happy experiences with pub
lishers such as Horace Liveright
and Donald Friede, and with
Otto H. Kahn during his tenure
as associate editor of “Life.”
When he deals with Henry Luce
and Mrs. Luce, he does it play
fully, yet maliciously.
King meets many lesser
characters in clinics, hospitals,
“fleebag” hotels: 19-year oldi
Gabrieli, a beautiful and win-i
some schizophrenic; Mr. Par-
roni, who insisted on making his
own postage stamps; the hotel
night-clerk called Pheeny—.
short for phenobarbital; Pana
ma, the waitress, who had the
secret ambition to be a prosti
tute but never quite made the
grade.
King writes frankly of his
battle against narcotics (he be
came addicted when morphine
was prescribed to relieve his
kidney pains), and though it
seems impossible, he wrings
from the agony of those days
some of his most hilarious
anecdotes.
The autobiography follows no
chronological order. He has
written each chapter as some
memory or idea moved him to
relate an anecdote or express a
strong opinion.
The author does a great deal
of name-calling and verbal
juggling, but his jestful hiraior
keeps one going on to the next
episode.
Alexander King is a tough,
angry old man; his book is a
tough, honest record of a rich
and empty life, yet it i's often a
kindly commentary on life.
A book that can be read in
one sitting, Mine Enemy Grows
Older is now available in the
Signet paper back form.
The Trouble In South Africa
The trouble in the Union of
South Africa has shocked the
world—although such as has
happened should have been ex-
pected.
Perhaps never in the history
of all mankind have a people
been so exploited, so humiliated,
so misrepresented as the native
population of the Union of
South Africa. In this rich nation
of black natives and white Euro
peans there is a civil—and inter
national—crisis, which is racial
in all respects. It is the struggle
between self-government, self-
respect, and freedom for the na
tive African, and the oppression
of the tyrannical, belligerent
white settler. Since the white
man has come to Africa, he has
found profuse resources jus1|
waiting for him. He found a re
luctant native who could serve
him. He has made nebulous use
of both. He cannot give up the
servants he has at his disposal;
he cannot give up this domi
nant state. If he gives the Afri
can population any freedom, it
will cry for more. The eventual
results would be self-govern
ment for the majority. This is
the trouble in the Union of
South Africa.
The opinion of the world is
voiced against these diabolid
acts. In the recent UN, Security
Council meeting, the vote of 9-0
in favor of protesting against the
Union was indicative of this.
Significantly the U.S., though
this nation be prejudiced, voted
for it. Too, France and England
abstained—France because it is
having trouble of its own in
Algeria, and England because
the Union is a member of the
British Commonwealth. How
ever, England also gave the
black sheep a verbal lashing. Of
importance is the fact that soon
the Belgian Congo will become
a member of the Common
wealth, and this will make it
have a majority of peoples from
African or Asian ethnic groups.
Truly the English are becoming
international in reality as well
as in ideal. Since the mother
coimtry cannot condone the con
duct of the mischievous Union,
it may be booted out of the
greatest commonwealth of na
tions. Certainly stringent action
(continued on page 7)
Letters
Develop Talent
Dear Editor:
As is needless to state, our
times find us sadly in need of
leaders: moral, spiritual, pro
in light of this fact, it behooves
fessional, and intellectual. And,
all of us to strive for perfection.
It is my desire to stimulate
our students, through your or
gan, the Campus Echo, to de-
could find highly useful. In an
velop their talents which they
age where an error of .001
second could be costly in the
amount of millions of dollars, I
believe our enlightened students
will agree with me when say
that we have no time to waste
endless hours in idle chatter.
Conferences are being held
every day to decide what shall
be the course of future civiliza-
ttion. In iuture days—and in
some instances, those “futurei
days” are upon us—those poorly
informed individuals who failed
to make the best use of avail
able time will find themselves
hopelessly lost in the “tides of
consequence.” Others, the seri-
and pursued certain useful ob-
ous ones who have conceived
^ectives, will find that life is
not nearly so trying as their
more unfortunate brethren will
have found it. It is not untrue
to say, I think, that nothing is
impossible for the man who
will choose an objective and
follow his course with enthusi
asm and perseverance.
■therefore, I implore you, my
fellows, to exercise your free
dom of choice by selecting the
more promising and accepted
paths. Abandon “the rail,” the
poker games in the dorms, and
the caresses in the Library. Turn
high and philosophical aspects of
to the joys of the mind—to the
life. Become a good follower,
and becoming a good leader will
easily follow.
Respectfully,
Allen E. Weatherford, III
Sutton Presents
Senior Recital
On Sunday, April 10, in B. N.
Duke Auditorium Miss Enid
Sutton presented her senior re
cital. She was featured at the
piano.
Miss Sutton’s five piano selec
tions were Beethoven’s “Rondo
A Capriccio 2, Schubert’s “Im
promptu In A-Flat Major,”
Chopin’s Two Preludes, Op. 28,
Number 15 in D-Flat Major and
Number 22 in G'Minor, and
Debussy’s “The Maiden With
the Flaxen Hair” and “Poiir Lei
Piano.”
Miss Sutton was assisted by
Mr. Robert L. Brown, who at
intermission played Mendel
ssohn’s “Sonata, Number Two”
at the organ.
At intermission also Miss Sut
ton was presented a bouquet of
flowers by Miss Carolyn Gat
ling, president of Alpha Chi
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority. She was also presented
flowers by her beau, Mr. Ellis
Smith.
Audience reaction showed the
recital to have been well re
ceived. Reactions were particu
larly good for Chopin’s “Two
Preludes” and Debussy’s “The
Maiden with the Flaxen Hair”
and “Pour le Piano.”
- After the recital Miss Sutton
was serenaded by her sorority
sisters. Present also were mem
bers of her family and friends.
Said Miss Sutton at the end of
the recital, “Thank Heavens,
that’s over.”