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rro The IT'S STRANGE how a technical crew can get so unconscious- second Playmaker production for the '66-'67 season, opens ly swallowed up by a play that when they're out there work- Wednesday, November 9 and promises to be a striking drama . ing on the set they seem to take the shape and forms of the tic performances. First in these pictures, on the left, brightly- tortured characters of Jean Anouilh's "Antigone." This, the ; . r hat Did By OTELIA CONNER Third in a Series When David Lowry Swain, Governor of North. Carolina, and third President of the University was a small boy living in a mountain cove of western North Carolina, he saw a horse and wagon ap proaching in a washed out channel of the creek near his home, and was so frightened that he ran and hid. What manner of man was this, who with only four months of college education at the UNC, got his law li cense when he was 22 years old, when he was twenty three years old was elected to the General Assembly .for five terms. When he was twenty eight years old he was chosen solicitor for the Edenton Cir cuit, an extreme eastern dis trict of North Carolina. When hi was twentynine years old he was transferred to the Su perior Court bench. When he was thirty two years old he was elected Gov ernor of North Carolina, the youngest man ever elected to that high office. During Governor Swain's last yoar in office, 1835, Jos eph Caldwell, President of the University died and Governor Swain was elected to succeed him. He was then thirtyfour yi-ars old. - In appearance he had a homely face and a large, un gainly figure. He was so knockkneed that the students said that the pigs on his farm must have gotten away easily, as they could run right be tween his feet. It is a fair question: What did this man have that other mm didn't' have, that he al ways landed on top of every pile? As an educator it was held ajinst him that for twenty yars hy never bought a book for Ihe library. Except for the I'hi and Di libraries, the Uni v rsity library was non - ex istent. - .Yet many prominent "AS FUNNY A MOVIE AS ANY AUDIENCE COULD ASK FOR!" 'Nmswcuk Mogjwe COi uMfiiA pk;!:jhi S ( 'i .,'ifntt'.v BBYAftl FORBES' 'tr ti,i ji , (if if j ( it j THE lAJnnrjG BOX I v Starring Michael Caine. Nannette Newman. Peter Sellers. Short "SHOCKING PINK" 1:20. 3:15.5:10.7:06.9:02 RIALTO, Durham Plat's '1 Ungainly Dr. Swain Have men gave him credit for much of their success in later life. He was accused by some of being, a toady, and! booting up the rich. If so, it seems ,to have paid off in his case, as the University grew under his administration, and was rated the best college in the The Stories Of Our Presidents Southern States. Three Presi dents of the United States were commencement guests at the University during his " ad ministration. No other admin istration can make such a claim. He wa.s criticized by some for being too lenient in dis cipline. He often over - ruled the faculty and refused to ex - pel a student. He held that the chief concern of the Uni versity was to make charac ter and not to break people. He was criticized for grant ing diplomas to students after four years at the University, regardless of their scholastic standing. Kemp P. Battle defends Swain's position on easy diplo mas, and lists the following advantages to the possessor of a diploma from the Univer sity: - ' ' "He had learned human na ture and how to handle men. He had learned to consider able extent polished manners. He could think and speak on his feet. In county meetings he knew the rules of order fK- V, V, 'V.V Vy V ."- - 4-4 The Thing- outlined Stan Eskridge appears and how to conduct business this he had learned in his Literary Society. He had con fidence in himself. He saw that his neighbors expeeted much of him and his self respsct forced him not to dis appoint them, on ths principle 'noblesse oblige.' " Swain aroused resentment in the village when his beau tiful daughter, Elinor, married General Atkins, a Union Gen eral who was stationed at Chapel Hill at the close of the war. It was due to Governor Swain's conciliatory attitude that the 4,000 soldiers and their horses, quartered in the buildings on the campus, com mitted no acts of vandalism or looting in the town during that period of occupation. Governor Swain was also on intimate terms with Republi can General Sherman, who furnished him a team and gave him a horse. Governor Swain's death was inadvert ently caused by his horse which bolted, throwing him out of the buggy on the ground. He died from shock about two weeks later Most people in the South were, as poor as Job's turkey Irn after the war, but Swain,, who died three years after the close ofth3 war was a wealthy man, worth $600,000 notwithstanding the losses of the war Because of his great faith in UNC he kept the University opsn during the War Between the States; even when there were only, thirteen freshmen admitted. After ths war, the reconstruction . government dismissed President Swain, the Board of Trustees, and the faculty, and the carpetbaggers took over. Because of the lack of money and patronage, the si vr Sr v? ,- - . - . : ', - - t.-"" ' V I t I I I.'. ' ' - 1 v- - i . .Win - '.C . ' " -x i T' ! , i Up- n ' I fim - Tf v - t- in ii i.i ii mi i ii 1 1 mi. .. mi ' M"t"t l IniriiiiMiiiiniiiT-' ' -H mmmmc& jMtoii. as a solitary figure in space K;The iile? University closed its doors in 1871, and remained closed un til 1875. President Swain died Au gust 1868. Thus he was spared the pain of witnessing the desecration of the institution he loved and for which he had labored so long. By his contemporaries Gov ernor Swain was not consid ered a great man in many senses of the term, but he de veloped to the utmost all the talents and abilities he pos sessed, and in so doing "rais ed himself . above and beyond the great mass of his fellows." Futhermore, he knew when he was licked and saw no point in continuing to fight for a lost cause. If politics is ths art of the possible, Governor Swain was a consummate politician. His political acumen, together with a very bright mind, was rea son enough for his rapid rise in ths world. DOCTORS APLENTY FOR IVAN BONN, Germany (UPI) Trie Soviet Union has more doctors per capita than any other nation, according to the Statistical Yearbook, released in Bonn. The Soviet Union, says the Yearbook, has one doctor for every 467 persons. Austria has one for every 550 persons, West Germany one for every 696 and the United States one for eve ry 760. MENS & LADIES 14Kt. Gold Signet Rings T. L KEMP i::: ka:;t KiiANKi.iN ; 'i ir ilomr oj Th OUl II i ll Clutrnr But Not Without Work t as he adjusts a side light high on a ladder. Lighting Direc tor Russell Graves, center, seems to be going through the agony of Creon as he ponders his next lighting adjustment. Finally, Bob Hardison, hoisting a heavy curtain from the rib " At Minnesota Grad, Students Unionize f A small group of Universi ty of Minnesota teaching as sistants organized recently to discuss the possibility of form ing a union of part - time academic staff .members who also have student status. The union would include all students holding academe ap pointments. This includes about 2,000 teaching assist ants, teaching associates, re search assistants, part - time instructors, student counselors and laboratory instructors and assistants at Minnesota. : The group will strive to al leviate economic needs of student academic employees and make these needs known at all levels of the University structure, said Zev Aelony, teaching associate in the so cial science program. Among the "tentative con cerns" to be presented to the university administration, Ae lony said, are a $500 allow ance for union members' vde pendents, guaranteed assist ance during the summer, a re-evaluation of working con ditions and a remission of tui tion - for academic staff mem bers. f Nineteen assistants met last month to appoint a five - man provisional executive commit tee which will formulate state ments concerning the group's goals. ; At that meeting, teaching assistant Bruce Walker said he felt the purpose of any un ion would be to establish ths role of teaching assistants as teachers. Other attending the meeting agreed with Walker that the status of teaching as- ) mm, ...i Jewel i y 1 v 1 i l!l i w p u A li lift If l f' iZ t - '.,1. Sistants is unclear, They pointed out that there are no uniform standards from de partment to department; in one department TAs grade pa pers while in another they teach recitation classes. The University of Wisconsin has a similar organization of teaching assistants who ex pressed their "vested interest in the conduct of undergrad uate courses and their role in teaching them," according to THE ROBERT JOFFREY BALLET 5. t) I Clive Barnes, N. Y. Times: "The Robert Joffrey Ballet is bright, lively, original, zesty and the beloved toast of the New York dance world ... It stormed Broadway and there danced its way into Ballet history once and for all . . . big in heart, big in aspirations and big in achievement. America has really found itself a gem of a company . . . and it is a hundred times welcome to Broadway. Not only go at once but also go at once quickly." Memorial Hall, 8:00 P.M., November 10 THE Urns WUUam RESTAURANT presents for your Dining Pleasure HARRY CLIFTON and his ORCHESTRA The Big Band Sound for the Glass Slipper ballroom of the 9-1 A.M. Friday 9-1 A.M. S.ifnrd.iy 8-12 A.m Sunday JOAN MFl.TON Kurmor Miss North r.uolm:i. will play the pi iin utt'.Utly Monday - Friday t; ji ;?o p m No cover ohnrgp. bed catwalk, ressembles some Grecian seaman straining at a rope pulling up a sail. Or, maybe it's all just our imagination. DTH Photos by Jock Lauterer a National Observer.- article. They organized to gain a loud er voice in academic deci sions concerning these cours es. The organization, generally applauded by Wisconsin de partment heads and granted one request by the adminis tration already, plans to con centrate on educational im provement and fostering two way communication between faculty and TAs. lung HJtUtam KKSTUUtANT I., Mlll-S FKOM riUHOKO Kt41 ,: HISTOIDS FOR SALE: '65 IMPALA SS. 396 4 speed, dark blue w light blue interior. Best offer will be accepted Phone 942 4029. B.S.A. MOTORCYCLE 350 cc. Alloy fenders, feridax racing seat, candy apple red, scram bling or touring. Must sell. Perfect condition. $425.00. 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ROOMS FOR RENT: no re-' strict ions; Carrboro location Call 942-4950. $27.00 per month' Ql'IKT END APARTMENT at University Gardens, unfurn ished, two bedrooms, I 1-2 bathrooms, good kitchen, bal cony with j:ood view. Call Southern Rental. 942-5660 - .
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