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THE SUMMER SCHOOL WEEKLY
Friday, July 19, 1957
'Socially
Speaking
By MaryAlys Voorhees
If Nothing Works
Study Each Day
Several students eating dinner in Lenoir Hall
earlier in the week carried on an interesting con
versation, a good part of which was concerned
with a timely topic, the second session of summer
school just having started.
Seems that one student there was concerned
with methods of studying, and how some students
could spend a lot of time on outside activities and
yet make, good grades while others could not.
Several good suggestions were offered.
One idea brought up concerned the value of
conversation topics around the dinner table at
. home. What you discuss at home, one said, influ
ences to a large degree how well you do later in
school.
That may be true to some extent, said another,
but it's not always so. At his home, the topics
discussed were of technical and mechanical things.
Matters political and historical were rarely ever
talked about, he said, indicating thus that this
idea would not be of much value to him in poli
tical science or history courses he might have
taken.
A third student came up with the idea that, it
was fairly easy to read through material the night
before a quiz and make a good grade. In his case,
he said, he could quickly glance over a page in
the textbook and spot the most important things
without having to read it all. He could, he said,
easily go through 300 pages of history in that way.
Maybe so. But after numerous attempts which
failed more often than not at trying to outguess
the professor by using much the same methods as
described above, we've decided that, at least as
far as we're concerned, the only way is to keep
up daily with the subject and do something the
night before a quiz is to relax, the idea that cram
ming is more of a hindrance than a help in making
good grades.
" And likely as not, we'll join you at final exam
time with an all night study session, aided by
twenty-odd cups of coffee, and take the exam
the next day with the usual tired mind.
Don't Just Loaf;
Do Something!
Summer school students, rise and take up your
arms. The time for action is at hand.
The University of North Carolina was once
known as a beehive of activity, intellectual and
otherwise. Now this fond tradition is dying a
slow, tepid, sticky death on the sweltering UNC
campus.
The Daily Tar Heel called it apathy. Some
refer to it as spring fever or summer doldrums,
depending on the season. We term it the creeping
lassitude that slowly but surely is strangling the
life blood of this university.
Students just don't care any more. They don't
get excited, about anything. And as a result, they
are losing the freedom and responsibility that go
along with responsible student government.
But this isn't intended to be a sermon urging
you to go out and immediately busy yourselves
with the affairs of student government. Rather
it's a plea to go out and do something, get inter
ested in some activity or other, even if it's making
all A's or learning how to be a better tennis
player.
Take an active part in something. Get carried
away with it. Come out of your holes in the
ground and pretend you're alive. Get up you
apathetic people, and move. Do something, even
if it's raiding the Summer School Weekly offices
to lynch this writer.
We for one would like to see this beehive buzz
again. The sleepy somnolence that now pervades
the campus atmosphere gives us the willies. And
if you can't think of anything else to do, write a
letter to the editor. -
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RICHARD LOVE OF GREENSBORO
New Chairman Of Summer Activities Council
SUMMER SPOTLIGHT
ew Activities Council Head
Is A Yankee-Bred Tar Heel
By BILL CHESHIRE
Richard Love, newly-appointed
Chairman of the Summer School
Activities Council, was born a
Tar Heel. But for some reason
(probably to get Southern Bread)
his family moved up to the bad
place specifically Greenwich,
Conn.
So Richard lived most of his
young life on the other side of
the Magnolia Curtain where he
hardly ever ate black-eyed peas,
almost never had collard greens
and where his teachers taught
him not only that "you" was both
singular and plural but that all
Americans were yankees and
Southerners were Rebs.
As might have been expected,
Richard decided that he ought to
acquire his higher education fur
ther South. So after finishing at
Deerfield Academy (Deerfieli,
Mass.), he boarded the best thing
he could find (a Southbound
train) and came to Chapel Hill.
When asked what he liked
about Carolina, Richard explained
that his impressions of the Uni
versity were so intertwined with
his impressions of North Carolina
in general as to be inseparable.
This is what he had to say about
our way of life:
"The Carolina way of life can
not be described in a few words;
the friendly atmosphere and in
formality become such an inbred
part of you that it may com
pletely change your outlook. This
way of life has meant more to me
than any other experience I have
had.
"Now I plan to settle in North
Carolina," he added.
A rising senior (currently from
Greensboro), Richard has allowed
few cobwebs to collect in his
path since he came to UNC. He
has been an active member of
the campus YMCA, contributing
his talents to nearly every phase
of that organization's work. These
have included: the Freshman
Fellowship and the YMCA cabi
net (last year and this year). In
addition, he has been Y social
chairman and conference , co
chairman. After getting his degree here
in Business- Administration, he
plans to go to the Harvard Busi
ness School (where he will prob
ably try to convert the benighted
yanks) and then return to North
Carolina.
Better take your turnip greens,
hog jowl, sowbelly, pot likker,
grits and chittlins with you this
time, Richard.
Is School Becoming Dull?
Try Out These Activities
By LARRY CHEEK
The UNC summer school stu
dent will find the best in variety
entertainment right at his door
step this session.
The newly-appointed Summer
Activities Council, headed by
Chairman Richard Love, has gone
all out to provide a diverting
lineup of activities for the swelt
ering summer students. Two at
tractions are definitely set for
the coming week, while several
others are in the tentative stage.
First on the sale is a show by
the master hypnotist and mental
wizard, Franz Polgar. . Polgar, a
frequent and popular visitor to
the UNC campus, will stage his
demonstration of mental gym
nastics this Wednesday night in
Memorial Hall.
Then a week from today, the
Activities Council will sponsor an
all-campus dance in the asphalt
area between Hanes and Memo
rial Halls." The dance will feature
a Caribbean cruise motif, and
dress will be informal. More de
tails will be announced in next
week's issue.
, Other prospective attractions
include a variety show, an in
formal swim party, a Bermuda
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THE WEEKEND OF LEISURE is past and once
again Carolina settles down for several more
weeks of knowledge seeking . . .. and while Tar
Heels were home for a couple at least two stu
dents were making their claim to fame. . . .
Elaine Herndon .of Durham, first session coed,
took top honors by walking away with the "Miss
North Carolina" title Saturday night ... no fel
lows, she won't be back this session . . . .another
coed, Jo Ann Aldridge who was "Miss Chapel
Hill" was among the top ten winners.
THE CAROLINA WAY OF LIFE ... Pi Phi
Bobbi Madison heading for her Washington, D. C,
home after spending the weekend and first sum
mer session here. . . . Student Body President
Sonny Evans off on a naval cruise for the rest of
the summer. ...
Naval ROTC students Bob and Don Furtado
vacationing in New Orleans before reporting for
six weeks active duty at Corpus Christi, Tex. and
Little Creek Va. . . . Cam Whittimore, Pat Watson,
Mary Lou Macon, Mary Elizabeth May and Vir
ginia Cottingham back for another' session . . .
ditto for a couple thousand others. ...
The friendly yellow-jackets, back again this
summer to keep a constant vigil over the trash
cans in Y Court. . . . Sigma Nu Tommy Prewitt
taking life leisurely out in Denver, Colo., before
beginning law school . . . the 'Betas celebrating
with a party at the house Monday night. ...
Buddy Payne, Monk Moncure, Bill Swain, Sally
Simpson and Doris Atkins spending the weekend
at Virginia Beach and running into Sonny and
Anne Shelley Forbes, who are there for the sum
mer before returning to school.
ENGAGEMENTS . . . DU Ernst Kemra of New
York "City and Alpha Gam Pat Carter of Wallace
... former Pika John Dickson of Wilmington and
Tri Delt Donna Hostettler of Eustis, Fla. . . . Med
student John Winstead of Chapel Hill and Watts
Hospital nurse Jean Butler of Clinton. ...
. UNC student Charles Stevens of Chapel Hill
and Rachael Humphries, also of Chapel Hill ...
Alpha Gam Carolyn Frazier of Liberty and State
student Billy Moxley of Raleigh . . . former KD
president Peg Humphrey of Richmond, Va., and
Truman Moore of Myrtle Beach, S. C.
WEDDINGS . . . former coed Catherine Berry
hill of Chapel Hill and UNC law student Lee
Williams of Sanford, July 13. . . . ADPi Barbara
West of Jacksonville, Fla., and KA Pat McCor
mick of Monroe, July 2.
PINNINGS . . . Beta Bill Klein of Asheville to
Tri Delt Susan Mayhue of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
. . . coed Sybil Child of Lawranceville, Va., to
recent Naval Academy . graduate Bill West of
Wilmington.
The Summcx Sc&ett TVee&ty
The official student publication of the UNC
Summer School Published each Friday during
both sessions except examination and holiday
periods.
- Office Telephone: 9-3361
Editor Mary Alys Voorhees
Managing Editor Bill Cheshire
Business Manager Dick Burroughs
Associate Editor Larry Cheek
Sports Editor ..Dick Burroughs
Chief Photographer ....... .Bill King
Feature Editor.-.. Cortlahd Edwards
News Staffs Lind Earle, Pat Watson,
Jimmy Harper, Mary House, Clarke Jones
and Gary Nichols
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