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fv" ft. i PUBLISHED THURSDAY AFTERNOONS OFFICES SECOND FLOOR GRAHAM MEMORIAL CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1964 .Fine Arts Decree Is A Year w WWW OH By HENRY McINNIS What is UNC doing to turn out talented performers in music, painting, sculpture and drama? The most recent answer is to begin with entering freshmen and make it possible for them to practice an instrument, wield a brush or act in a play for about half their time, and take courses for the other half. The idea is recognition of the fact that to be a top performer in these fields requires steady applica tion. The program is known as the bachelor of fine arts degree and has completed its first year a mere infant compared to the bachelor of arts degree. Dr. J. Carlyle Sitterson, dean of the College of Arts and Sci ences, said, "The main differ ence between the degrees is it was possible to study in music, art and drama while taking the bachelor of arts degree but the student had to devote a major part of his time to other things outside his field. The fine arts degree emphasizes creative per formance." The Division of Fine Arts, which includes the Departments of Art, Drama, Music and Radio, Television and Motion Pictures, is headed by Dr. Joseph C. Sloane, chairman of the Art Department. How is the program working out after its first year of opera tion? In his own department Dr. Sloane said, "We have a difficult time getting freshmen men into the BFA program. It will be some time before enough stu dents apply for the program. There are five freshmen girls this year participating. About one or two might continue." Dr. Wilton Mason, secretary for the Division and professor in the Music Department, said, "The music faculty will admit a person to the program only if that person is exceptionally tal ented and wants to be a profes sional mus'cian." No one is admitted to the fine arts program in music without the approval of each faculty member of the department. The degree they will earn is called the bachelor of music designed to provide professional training and experience starting with the freshman year, thus allowing more hours of credit in specializ ed music courses than was be fore possible. Three music students were in the fine arts degree program in its first year, which began in September, 1963. Martha Gibbs, who graduated in June, is going to do graduate work in a New England Conservatory. She sang two leads in operas during the year. The others are Nancy Mil- . . ner and Joe Turpin. All three are voice majors. There were no instrumentalists. "Very few people have the 'Continued on Page 11) N Gaskin To Head Second Session Dr. James R. Gaskin succeed ed Dr. A. K. King Monday as director of the University's sum mer sessions. Dr. King left his post to devote more time to his work as vice president of Insti tutional Studies for the Consoli dated University. Dr. Gaskin, who was recently, named to head the new Depart ment of Linguistics and Slavic and Oriental Languages, joined fiie UNC faculty in 1950 as an instructor. After receiving his doctorate here in 1952, he began teaching courses in Old English in the Linguistics Curriculum and in the Department of Eng lish. His most recent administrative post was director of freshman and sophomore programs in Eng lish, which includes supervision of several courses required of all students at the University. ; Dr. King, named to the vice presidency on March 1. will un dertake such projects as re viewing projected findings for future expansion of the Univer sity on other campuses. 1 He is a professor iff the School of Education, and was editor and chairman of the "Self-Study Sum mary Report'.' prepared here last spring for a visit by an accredi ation committee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. ... -..- m V - , ; I t y$rt& Vte i"4 "1 -"- , -. i , DR. JAMES R. GASKIN 79 m M 9 en s & Women's Councils Try Cases A student was given two semes ters probation by the Men's Council July 17, after he pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the Dean of Men about a case pre viously heard by the Council. Noting the sentence was "lenient considering the flagrant viola tion," the Council justified it in light of the student's academic record and "other factors." In a second case, a student was given two semesters proba tion after he admitted writing seven checks to local merchants using ficticious names. Earlier, in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court, the student was fined $50 and given two years suspended sen tence in lieu of 30 days by Judge L. J. Phipps. Phipps reduced the original charge, a felony, to the misdeamnor of writing bad checks. " The charge is considered to be both one of lying and steal ing under the Honor System. ' In further action, a student was given two semesters proba tion after he pleaded guilty to "misappropriating" an automo bile on private property as a prank and gave an indefinite plea to a charge of carrying a (Continued on Page 10) Jr. Players Prepare For Productions The Junior Carolina Playmak ers will present a "Festival of Plays and Dances," Playmakers Theatre, Saturday night at 8. Tickets at $1 each are on sale in Y-Court, and will be on sale at the box office. 'The 60 high school students will produce three plays, "Gloria Mundi,'" written . by Patricia Brown and, directed "by John Crockett of 'Chapel ' Hill; "The Red Velvet Goat," written by former Playmaker Josephina Niggli and directed by Louise La mont of Chapel Hill; and "Rid ers, to the Sea," written by J. M. Synge and directed by John Whitty also of Chapel Hill. The leading characters in "Gloria Mundi" will be played by Debbie Moldow of New York City and Morgan Scott of Rad ford, Va. "The Red Velvet Goat" fea tures Dagmar Wilker of Lexing ton, Ky. ar.d Garth Galbraith of Clio, Mich. Star Roach of Reids ville, Mary Lee from Rocky Mount, Va.. Hannah Evans from Wadley, Ga.. and Murray Daw son from LaGrange, 111., will head t'ne cast of "Riders to the Sea." Two dance numbers, directed by Edith Hinrichs, will be pre sented between plays. A lyric ballet, based on Richard Rod gers' "Once Upon a Time," will feature Ronnie Reddy from El Paso, Texas; Nita Cheek, from Burlington; Bill Hix, from Falls Church, Va.; and Jeanne Grocho la, from Long Island, N. Y. "The Crooked Little Man," re corded by the Serendipity Sing ers, will become a modern jazz number, danced by Suzi Klein, (Continued on Page 10) Professors Blamed In Demonstrations By JOEL BULKLEY District Solicitor Thomas D. Cooper Jr. charged here last week that UNC professors encour aged civil disobedience in Chapel Hill that resulted in more than 1,400 arrests. ' " - The Burlington attorney review- '7 U4. V .. -... i M M SOLOIST Charles Delaney, na tionally known flutist and asso ciate professor of music at the University of Illinois, will be the guest soloist at a concert of the Triangle Little Symphony .to night at 8 in Hill Hall. Delaney beads the instrumental music program at the Governor's School in Winston-Salem this summer. Dr. Paul Bryan of the Duke University faculty in mu sic will conduct. There is no admission charge. Chapel Hill Demonstration Leaders Fail To Gain Release From Prison Three leaders of the Chapel Hill civil rights movement are back in prison after Superior Court Judge E. Maurice Bras well denied their habeus ( orpus petitions Tuesday. - ... John Dunne, a former More head Scholar here, Louis Cal houn, a UNC senior, and Quinton Baker, senior at N. C. College in Durham, had appealed for a re view of April convictions stem ming from civil rights demon strations here last winter. The trio claimed they were illegally imprisoned on convic tion of resisting arrest by going limp. They said their action did not delay, obstruct, or resist their arrest .by Chapel Hill po lice, and that the bills of indict ment drawn up by District So licitor Thomas Cooper failed to charge, them with criminal con duct within the meaning of State law. ; At their April trials, they threw themselves on the mercy of Superior Court Judge Ray mond B. Mallard with pleas of nolo contendere (no contest). Cooper argued that the peti tions shouM be denied, pointing cut that the petitioners had of fered this plea rather than take their case to a jury. Judge Braswell ordered them returned to foe prison camps where they are inmates. Arthur Crisp of Reidsville has been released on $250 bond pend (Continued on Page 11) ed the history of the uril rights movement here, praised the Chap el Hill Police Department for its handling of demonstrations, and defended the fairness of demon strator's trials last spring. Cooper, solicitor of District 10-A (Orange, Chatham, and Alamance Coun ties), was the prosecutor in the trials. "University professors failed to distinguish between academic freedom and academic license, and encouraged civil disobedience in Chapel Hill," Cooper told the Chapei Hill Rotary Club last week. "You don't hear much talk of academic responsibility here," he said. "The faculty of a uni versity must assume responsi- bility for the moral growth as " well as the intellectual growth of its students. The atmosphere created in Chapel Hill by these professors, in part, helped to stimulate civil disobedience." After reviewing the civil rights movement here, from 1951 to the present, with emphasis on the December, 1963 to May, 1964 events, he offered his observa tions on racial developments in Chapel Hill: "The demonstrators were not convicted by 'reck-neck juries.' " "Of 96 jurors who served on the cases, 94 agreed to guilty ver dicts . . . Each jury had at least one Negro member." He said the jurors were wives of prominent Orange County res idents, and included professors and leading businessmen. He pointed out that only two parents couacted the court about the trials of their, children. "This proves something," Cooper said, "but I don't know what." "Some people have said the sentences were too harsh," the solicitor said. "After all, the kids didn't do anything . . . The trials cost Orange County, at the absolute minimum, $35,000. "The demonstrators, many of whom I've gotten to know per sonally, are the least violent people in the world. They would n't mash a fly. But they would often go out of their way to pro voke violence." He quoted UNC and Duke professors and a Chap el Hill Freedom Committee of ficial as saying demonstrations would continue even if violence occurred. "I know that at one demonstra tion a man had a shotgun, and (Continued on Page 11)
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