Sunday, February 28, 1965 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Page 5 ?tl TO THE LETTERS f EDITORS I t u rO ' .-':: V - f f yT-- ' . .- fe-' - i t - - " I - f ' ' ' ' " -v ' - '- . I- T'" ' J 'V 4 - t -. S , : h,- - - -- i - - x ' - v j "-;y r ! ' ' ' - ' ; Peace By FRED THOMAS DTH Reporter . 'I really don't know how I got interested in the Peace Corps. I just decided to drop by one of the meetings last year. I took the test and applied for the summer training program." This was the comment of Don Eatchelor, senior history -political science major .from Sharpesburg, N. C, who will tie one of the speakers at an open meeting on the Peace Corps in Howell Hall tomorrow at 8 p.m. (Representatives from the Peace Corps office in Washing ton, D. C, and UNC veterans of overseas service will be speaking about the program and offering criticisms. Everyone is invited wheth er they're planning to enter the peace Corps or not. There will be discussion from the floor.) Batchelor passed the test, participated in the first segment of the training program last summer and, after graduation from UNC this spring, will be bound for Africa with the Peace Corps volunteers. For two months last summer, Batchelor studied at Dartmouth with over 150 other colle jun iors from across the United Sta tes as a part of the Peace Corps' Advanced Trair Jig Pro gram. The preparatory session will conclude with t'o more months of study . th' s summer. Then in September or October, he will - embark for Guinea, where he will se e as an En glish teacher for the next two years., ;- - . Explaining iast summer's training proy am, he pointed out that the greatest emphasis Advance Training Program Gorps For was placed on the language of the respective countries in which the volunteers will be working in his case, French. "All the trainees in my group agreed to speak nothing but French for the duration of the two months. We even had French music piped into our dorm rooms. 'We also spent time familiar izing ourselves with Guinean art, politics and culture in gen eral," Batchelor said. French class, 8 a.m.; lectures and discussion on American His tory, U. S. foreign policy, Com munism, world affairs and tea . ching methods. A typical day might run something like this: . French class, G a.m.; 9-11:30; . 9-11:30; lunch; French classes, 1 to 3 p.m. lectures 5 to 6 p.m. dinner; lectures, 7 to 9 p.m. However, he was quick to em- -hasize that the work was neither - boring nor burdensome. "It's just not like regular college life. People you meet are so involved with each other and with their work. No one tells you that a certain amount of work will be due on a cer tain day. You do things because you want to." Batchelor noted with a smile that dormitories were co-educational. Just to insure that there is no place for monotony, the schedule provides for a rigorous six-and-a-half-hour 4 per week physical education program. Activities range from easy - going games such as horse shoes to the more grueling work of mountain clim bing. ... He cited one particularly me morable four-day camping trip. The campers, over half girls, . staked out an . area along a JuiniorB mountain slope- just outside Ca nada. " " "It. was July, but it was as cold as (ice). Our group includ ed a lot of New Yorkers peo ple you'd think had never had any camping experience. It was amazing to see what they could do. We had to kill our own food birds or fish or pick berries, and we slept in tents." During the training program, volunteers received a $75 mon thly payment, which was plac ed in a bank for them, avail able at the end of the session. In addition room and board was furnished along with $16 per week spending money. , . " , " Batchelor, whose English stu dents, will range from sixth gra ders through high school seniors, pointed out that teaching meth ods will emphasize" oral, rather than written, English. "We are interested in helping the people of Guinea learn to speak English so that they may communicate with people of surrounding countries where this language is spoken." When he goes to work, the monthly payment will be the same as it was during the training program, as -will "the lodging and meals arrangement. "It's not as bad as most people think. They won't try to make us starve, although I don't think I will be able to afford an air-conditioner." . . He summed up the summer training program as "an extre mely emotional summer for me. The people I studied with are some of the finest I have ever met, and I am looking forward to working with many of these same volunteers in Guinea." Blame Shifted To Wrong People Editors, The Tar Heel: Perhaps the greatest error made in the past week at UNC was in shifting the blame for an incident past the responsi ble individuals to the entire or ganization of which these per sons are members. For example, Mr. Gardner, blamed the precipitating inci dent not only on the individu als responsible but on the entire SAE fraternity. He then expan ded this guilt to include the Inter-Fraternity Council and ulti mately the entire . Chapel Hill community. Surely the actions of a few persons can not be us ed to condemn an entire town! Similarly, the "opposition" to Gardner seems to have expan ded Gardner's perhaps irrespon sible actions to include such or ganizations as SPU, FSM, NA ACP and CORE. This is unfair to the individuals of these or ganizations because it forces them to choose a side in an is-, sue in which it would be . bet ter not to be involved. If Carolina students, suppos edly the most "enlightened" of North Carolinians, can partici pate in such injustice, will it be . surprising if the people of North Carolina people whose taxes support UNC begin to doubt the rationality of supporting a . mob of irresponsible children? Will our parents and alumni ENOW that the : 2,000-member mob was.' not representative of the majority opinion, or w i 1 1 they, too, shift the responsiblity and the guilt past the individu als to include the entire stud ent body? Sandra Cathryn Edwards 306 Whitehead UNC Slavic Club Still Functioning Editors, The Tar Heel: In October of 1963 the UNC. Slavic Club held its first meet ing. By last December students, in economics, history, political science and Russian began at tending the meetings. Over 50 students attended the Slavic Club's first annual Christmas, party. Response from the facul ty has been just as enthusiastic. Despite the various chuckles that the name Slavic Club has engendered from the Student Legislature to the DTH, our purpose is not to somehow by pass the Speaker Ban Law. In stead we are trying to unite the students Of the Slavic languages with students interested in So viet,. Russian and East European studies; including the econom ics, politics, geography and his tory of these countries. We also hope "to increase student aware ness of the resources available on this campus in Slavic studies. Our programs vary widely, from lectures by UNC profes sors to films, poetry and play . readings. After the main pro gram is over, refreshments are served. The refreshment period provides an opportunity for the students to meet the faculty members informally. The Slavic Club will hold its first meeting of this semester March 3 in the faculty lounge, fourth floor, Dey HalL Dr. Walter Arndt, noted translator of Eugene Oneffin, will speak on "National Stereotypes in Russian Literature." On March 30, Dr. J. H. Black man will speak on "Recent So viet Economic Reforms." Then April 28, Dr. John Schnbrren berg of the Art Department will speak on a topic still to be an nounced. Slavic Club meetings are open to the student body and faculty. Jack Tate Homestead Rd. . Chapel Hill Name Changer Hits Chapel Hill ; Editors, The Tar Heel: One dreary Thursday after noon as our usual rainy winter weather hit the Hill . and as I was attempting to cram for history, my thoughts slipped to those coming days of warmth and weekend treks to the beach. -Picture if you will, pulling into Ocean Drive :- after a week of quizzes to search for a coed with whom to -tip a few, dance, etc. I walked into the Pad to find myself surrounded by Caro lina gentlemen or at least they seemed to be such. A slob in red overalls with UNC lettered across them ap proached. I asked, "Are you from Carolina?" . "Yep, UNC-R," he replied, finishing an ear of corn. . ' "Oh," I gasped, looking away at a small brunette in the cor ner, wearing a green sweatshirt I approached her, shoving empty cans out of my path, and questioned her, "Are you from Carolina too?" noticing she did not look like the typical Hill coed. - . "Why, yes, Greensboro," 'she responded, sheepishly as if ..she had not spoken to a male in . years. . '. v. . . 'f!rnt- how about a beer." I offered, still pondering over the past few minutes. As we moved through th crowd, I bumped against a short kid wearing a gold blazer with an emblem depicting Mecklen burg County with letters UNC across it. Another one, I thought! JJe must have noticed my tee shirt as he yelled, "Hey, buddy, you from UNC-C?" ;. "Nope, UNC-CH, kid," wer the words I uttered in disbelief. . Making It to the counter, I ordered two Blue's and turned to find a friend from school in front of me. "Say. Bill, just like a party on the Hill, isn't it?" he commented. "Right, just like the Hill!" Then I dreamed of having the name UNC-CH chmged to just plain ole CAROLINA! William L. Wicker 412 Winston Bare Ankles (Continued from page 4) tv that washes, man. , Note the white on his jeans. That's net paint, daddy, that's him. Ain't that the digginest? Watch him stride . . . oh, too cool, too cooL See the flutter. That's his shirt tail, baby. Grab all those wrinkles above the flutter. The greatest, man, and watch out you don't smooth that rag with an iron. No belt, dad dy, please. Let 'em hang loose. Let 'em be hip and almost slide. . See the crust on his fingers? Under that lies the real him. Too much. Watch him smile. Nice, huh? How about his, neck, did you catch that? Hair, , cur lee, baby-o, all the way down to nobody-knows-land. Grab the" : cheek lining. Swingeroo, huh? Leave the blades go, cool one. And" his pad's seen no roll-cn in many times five days. Don't crowd him, baby, he's too cocl. and you can't nose, the same atmos he does. He's way out . . the further the better.

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view