MARCH 29, 1958
THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
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Miss April
Miss Frances McLester
Former Student Sandra
Roberts Wins Contest
Sandra Roberts, a 1957 graduate of Charlotte College, has just been
awarded first prize for a research project in psychology. The award was
made by the South Carolina Psychological Association at its annual
meeting in Charleston.
The experiment was conducted
as a part of a psychology labora
tory course with fellow students
serving as subjects. Two question
naires were distributed to approxi
mately 350 girls. The first blank
asked general questions about the
subject’s family — for example,
what magazines were read and
what radio programs were listened
to in the home. The second blank
concerned what sort of future life
the subject hoped to have, of a
material and an abstract nature.
Information was also requested as
to the subject’s place among the
children in her family, whether old
est, youngest, or in the middle.
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As to reasons for the condition
indicated by their experiment, the
two aspiring psychologists, Sandra
and her cohort, Cecille Baldwin,
cited the fact that youngest chil
dren are often spoiled and babied
by their parents and coast along
on the reputations of their older
brothers and sisters.
Older children, on the other hand
are expected to set the pace for the
family, the parents making more
demands upon them.
“The experiment is an example
of progressive learning,” Sandra
said, “as we learned by doing. I
would like to try it with a much
larger group.”
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Sigma Tau Sigma
Meets For Dinner
Members of Sigma Tau Sigma,
the national honor society for so
cial sciences, met Sunday evening,
April 13, at the Oriental Restau
rant. They were treated to a Chi
nese dinner.
Guest of Honor was Miss Vickey
Chow, a junior at Queens College.
Miss Chow was born in China, and
has been in this country two and
one-half years. Her family fled the
communist control in China and
now lives a few miles outside of
Tokyo. Miss Chow studied English
for two years in the Japanese
schools.
The honor society also met Fri
day, April 25, to initiate new mem
bers. Joining were Charles Couch,
Pat Parker, John Proctor, Frank
Loyman, Cliff McLain, Dean Ches
ser, Charles Cheny, Leigh Winslow,
Joe Pickard, and Kenneth Hancock.
Qualification for membership con
sists of two or more quarters of
History, Political Science, or Eco
nomics, with an average of “B” or
better.
Plans for the remainder of the
year are still incomplete, but Jim
Hicks, President, informed the Col
legian that arrangements were un
derway for a final banquet to be
held in May.
Mrs. Rogers Lectures
About Life In Hungary
Rogers sppo.k about life behind the
Iron Curtain. Her lecture was spon
sored by the Sigma Tau Sigma
social science fraternity.
Having lived in Hungary during
the recent revolt, Mrs. Rogers was
well qualified to comment upon
Communist influence there. For the
benefit of her college audience she
opened her talk by telling some
thing about the students in Iron
Curtain countries. She said that in
Hungary few young people are able
to attend college: the majority of
them are obliged to stop school at
about the age of fourteen.
She pointed out that intelligence
and ability have nothing to do with
whether a student is permitted to
college. As an example she cited
the case of a Protestant minister
living in Hungary: his children, she
said, are brilliant, yet because of
his religious affiliations, the only
major they can pursue in college is
music.
Expanding her thesis, she com
mented at great length on the gen
eral standard of living under Com
munist rule; she described living
conditions and diet for an average
family, and she stated that such a
family would definitely own an
automobile; even the best doctors,
she said, except those that co-op
erate with the party, do not own
cars.
Returning to her original pre
mise, she spoke of a prominent
Hungarian surgeon whose sons,
despite a combined family of $220
per month, would not be able to go
to college unless they co-operated
with the Communists.
She stated that students are
treasured by the Communist Party,
and that they are constantly ‘
appealed to by the party; she [
hastened to point out, however, '
that the young people of Hungary
are not so profoundly influenced i
by Communism as one would !
imagine. She said that the Com- '
munists were constantly ostracized, |
even the children of party mem- i
bers.
At the end of her lecture she
opened the floor to questions. '
— 8 Form Rat Pack —
Rho Gamma Alpha Initiates
O Wednesday, March 26, li)58 Charlotte College was infested with
rats! And such jute ones that even the Orkin man could not bear to ex
terminate them even for a fat fee! They were of the two legged variety
and were called by such lovely names as Ann Hunter, Sybil Balentine,
Martha Moore, Lorna Byers, Linda Schubert, Frances Mahaffee, Geral
dine Lovelace and Margaret P’isher. These high and mighty rats came to
College bedecked in the most out
rageous fashions that their su
perior “big sisters” could dream
up! Not to speak of the signs and
vegetables the poor things wore as
costume jewelry! W^ell, as I started
to tell you.
These rats are forcing them
selves upon the more serious-mind
ed persons . . . their sober class
mates . . . for three nights finally
found a bit of mercy and were
granted membership into the Rho
Gamma Alpha sorority of Char
lotte College . . . (the haven for
good little rats). Miss Jane Harri
son, the new advisor to the RGA
vowed she had never seen such lit
tle varmits such as these, but she
had to admit that they were ’bout
the best sports around to take all
that ragging from their mortal sis
ters! Kanella Maydanis, Loretta
Young, Ann Jarrell, and Ann Mc-
Rorie were elected to the four of
fices of the club . . . poor club!!!!
But then we do have fun! Come pic
nic time at C.C. you will have a
chance to see this group in action
as the Infant King and Queen con
test reaches its climax! (!uess
that’s about all for now, but will
let you know how this rat pack . . .
oops this sorority gets along again
sometime!
Collegian News Editor John Ballard gets the full treatment from Rats
Margaret Fisher. Frances Mahaffee. Lorna Byers, and Ann Hunter.
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