Sunday, March 10, 1963
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By HOXNIE TAYLOR
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
"They help us see what is
happening here. Seeing them
interact with patients helps us
re-evaluate what we're doing
an increases our motivation."
That's how psychology intern
Cebnim Gaustad feels about
UNC's YM-YWCA coordinated
student volunteers at John
Umstead Psychiatric Hospital
in Butner, N. C.
AboVl. 45 mc students and
Chapel Hill residents spend one
afternoon a week visiting and
working with mental pa
tients. r
Volunteers are involved in a
variety of activities, ranging
from working in the infirmary
or talking with patients to
organiiing games and assisting
with occupational therapy.
Umstead Committee
chairman Frank.Sloop says
"by far the most popular area
of volunteer work is the one
to one interpersonal rela
tionship." In such a situation
the volunteer concentrates all
his efforts on one patient and
tries to become someone the
patient knows is concerned
about him as a person and not
A DTH Drama Review
Play
"The
Never Gets Off Groimd
By HARVEY ELLIOTT
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
THE MOON IS BLUE. By F.
Hugh Herbert. With Alexandra
Hadden, Jay Willis, Ian Cook,
Elliot Michaels. At Village
Dinner Theatre, through
March 16.
"The Moon Is Blue" begins
and ends on the Observation
Tower of the Empire State
Building or so the program
says. But don't you believe it. '
lnis play never sets off the
ground.
It's a dull comedy about a
dull architect who meets a girl
in the fog on top of that
building. Right off the bat they
establish some sort of platonic
relationship "affection but
no passion" and then go
home to his apartment to eat
supper.
The girl, you see, is a
"professional virgin," meaning
one who advertises the fact.
She's very amorous, but also
chaste, and proud of the whole
bit.
Enter the 45-year-old
alcoholic lecher from upstairs.
He just happens to be the
father of the boy's ex-fiancee
got that? which should
provide an interesting comedy
angle. But, like so many
possibilities here, it is dropped
and never developed.
Another aspect of the virgin
is that she wants to marry and
settled down with a rich 45-
year-old man. So when the rich
45-year-old man proposes, she
is revolted and disgusted and
CAMP
KICK-
Speaker: PROFESSOR JOEL SCHWARTZ
Vc urge all the responsible moderate
tempered students who are alarmed by
the reckless and senseless policies of the
present administration to join with us
in supporting a man who can
Charles Moore, Chairman
UNC Volunteers for McCarthy
just as a case.
All phases of hospital life are
shown and explained to
volunteers as a general orien
tation during the first two
weeks of work. Then the stu
dent decides if he will
volunteer for the rest of the
semester.
Volunteers meet with staff
psychologists after ea'cn af
ternoon's work to discuss any
problems or questions that
arise.
Duke University students in
1962 were the first organized
group of volunteers to work in
the treatment program. UNC
students began in 1963.
In addition to working one
afternoon a week, fall
volunteers participated in
weekly seminars and saw
several movies dealing with
problems and treatment of the
mentally ill. .
V o c a tional Rehabilitation
and Social Adjustment is cne
of seven programs volunteers
are working under for the
spring semester.
Remedial Education and.
Social Adjustment instructor
Annette Walker listed the goals
of the program as "to help
.Moo
we get the general notion that
this girl doesn't know what the
hell she is talking about.
This aimless motion goes on
for three acts until we finally
find ourselves back up on the
Observation Tower. The girl
and boy reveal their mutual
love, embrace and sail happily
down the elevator.
But ignore this completely
incongruous endmg there
has been no expression or hint
of love throughout the evening
and go back to the original
set-up. What went wrong?
There has been no develop
ment of character, no plot
complications, and not even a
smattering of funny lines. The
situation is there, but the
playwright doesn't do anything
with it.
Why is the girl's father in
cluded in the play, having no
relation to the plot or action?
Why isn't Cynthia (the ex
fiancee) brought into the pic
ture? In short, there are no en-
tanglements, no real reasons
for discord. Comedy depends
on complications, and this play
has none. It has nothing but a
few characters thrown
together for a couple of hours,
accomplishing only that inane
poposal and love scene at the
denouement.
And; the actors inevitably
have to sink with the ship.
(Only the girl was worth sav
ing anvhow.) Alexandra Had-
den plays Patty with a feeling
for the frank - but - innocent
virgin, and she does as much
CAMPAIGN
OFF
RALLY
SENATOR
EUGENE
McCarthy
PRESIDENT
MIL
clients pass a high school men
tal equivalency test, to
enhance their existing educa
tional level, or for therapeutic
reasons."
The eight UNC volunteers
participating in this program
teach classes in high seaool
subjects, tutor individually, or
work on a one-to-one basis in
social adjustment.
They may teach a patient
the alphabet, how to write his
name, how to write a letter, or
basic elements of algebra or
English grammar.
Volunteers help patients ac
quire the social skills they will
need when they return to the
outside care of personal ap
pearance, how to travel on
public transportation, how to
budget money (one patient
received three . dollars as a
present and immediately
bought three dollars worth of
one-cent candy), how to use
the phone, or making wise use
of leisure time.
Umstead Volunteer Services
and Community Relations
director Steve Creech com
mended the volunteers for the
initiative they take in the new
programs.
n Is Blue"
with the slight characterization
as is possible.
Jay Willis, as Donald, wears
a single expression the entire
evening, This is to convey
anger, sarcasm,
comedy,
iiirtation, love, and even a
hangover. His attempts at
voice-projection fall
somewhere between Cackle
and Screech. He is totally unconvincing.
The Radical Left
And Choice 68
For student radicals these
days, the menu has been
sparse. Vilified" by the press
and Congress for their noisy
activism, scorned by the ma
jority of their moderate
classmates more concerned
with campus affairs, and lam
basted from the pulpit for their
flowing locks and sundry other
nygiemc onenses, iney seem to
have nowhere to go.
Their views, sound as they
appear to them to be, remain
largely ignored, and their pro
tests, correspondingly, have
disintegrated into display of
cynicism and emotional
diatribes aimed at the
Establishment. The American
democratic process strikes
them as more absurd with
each passing by and each
mounting crisis.
for
MONDAY
7:30 P.M.
emo-
tinn nf beginning volunteers
fmm their lack
01
experience in working wi"1
mental" patients. Usually alter
the third or fourth week this
anxiety no longer exists.
A feeling of helplessness
often lingers. It comes when
all attempts to communicate
with a patient fail or when the
.patient rejects the volunteer.
The volunteer is forced to
examine everything he does
and says. Often he finds that a
patient does not trust him. But
many times a patient wiL
eventually confide more in a
volunteer than in a salaried
staff member. .
By observing the problems of
others, the volunteer better un
derstands himself and is more
capable of facing his own pro
blems. Motivations for the volun
teers vary greatly but almost
every volunteer lists a feeling
of wanting to be of service.
Raleigh junior Kathy Field
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On Preserving
The Institute of Government
and the North Carolina Depart
ment of Archives and History
will conduct a course in Plan
ning for the Preservation of
Historic Buildings, Sites and
Areas, March 10-16.
"The course is one of a very
few of its type offered in the
country," UNC Prof. Robert E.
Stipe, course director, said.
According to Stipe, the
course "should provide an
especially useful perspective
for city planners, historical
society and musuem directors,
architects, urban renewal ad
ministrators, government of-
ficials, and others who are pro-
lessionauy involved m public
and private preservation pro-
A 15-member faculty has
been selected for the course.
"All members jof the faculty
CHOICE 68, the National
Co legiate P r e s i d e n t i a 1
Primary, will probably either
soldify the skepticism of the
campus radicals or cause them
to re-evealute their thinking as
to the actual political power of
the vote.
SUNDAY
COLLEGE LIFE meets at 9
p.m. in Connor Dorm. Bill
Bolen, '67 graduate, will
speak. Everyone invited.
EXPERIMENTAL college
"Style in the American
Novel" meets at 5 p.m in the
6th floor Morrison social
room. Anyone with a
knowledge of Warren's "All
the King's Mentis invited to
join the discussion.
JAMES CINEMA Guild
present "Night of the
Iguana" starring Richard
Burton at 7:30 p.m. in Chase
Cafeteria west wing.
OBSERVATIONAL Astronomy
meets at 8 p.m. 215
Philips.
EXPERIMENTAL College
course No. 37 Psychic Ex
perience needs a place to
rent. Call Buddy Snipes at
933-4674. Urgent.
UNC RUGBY Club will hold
and intersquad scrimmage,
at 2 p.m. in Navy Field.
MEN'S ROOM reservations for
fall must be made at the
Housing Office in , Bynum
Hall by March 15 if present
rooms are to be kept.
"DISSENT: How Responsible
and Effective." a series
sponsored by the
Presbyterian Student Center
begins at 5:30 p.m. at the
Center. Prof. Lewis Lipsitz
of the political science dept.
is
Anxietv is a common
'because I feel I
doing something
interesting, and
Assistant geology librarian
and Ohio State graduate
Beverly Kawalec feels she is
definitely gaining something
myself by volunteer work."
She stated that volunteers soon
realize that patients are like
everyone else and have .the
same needs for companionship.
Raleigh sophomore Judith
Johnson volunteered because
she had enjoyed previous work
in mental hospitals.
Arlington, Va. sophomore
Linda Law "often wonders"
how much good I am doing but
feel any contact with the
outside world will help the pa
tients," The volunteer program is
open to anyone who will devote
one afternoon a week to work
ing with the mentally ilL The
committee is reorganized each
semester because of changing
class schedules.
w
Buildings . . .
are eminently qualified by
education and professional ex
perience," Stipe said.
Classes will be held in the
Joseph Palmer Knapp Building
on the UNC campus from Sun
day evening, March 10, to Fri-
day, March 15, from 8:45 a.m
to a p.m. beverai evening
events are also scheduled.
The course will conclude
with a trip to Old Salem set
tlement near Winston-Salem on
Saturday, March 16.
The basic format of the
course is lectures, sup
plemented by seminar
discussions, films, and in
formal discussion.
Housing accommodations
from Sunday through Thursday
evenings are available on a
first-come, first-serve basis at
both the Institute of Govern
ment and the Carolina Inn.
There will be a materials fee
of $50 for all students enrolled.
This does not include meals or
housing.
There are no formal ad
mission requirements.
The civilian population of the
two Vietnams is estimated at
about 33 million persons.
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art was founded in New York
City in 1870.
and Frederick Krantz of the
history dept. will react to a
30-minute film (to be shown
tonight) "Past, Present,
Future." This film in
terviews Hubert Humphrey,
Michael Harrington,
: Straughton Lynd, Dan Bell,
Norman Thomas and I.F.
Stone. -
MONDAY
ANGEL FLIGHT will hold a
bake sale in Y court.
INTERVIEWS for orientation
counselors for fall will be
held in Roland Parker
Lounges. of Graham
Memorial from 2 to 5 p.m.
All interested students are
invited to interview.
DI PHI meets at 7 p.m. on
third floor New West. Topic:
"Should Churches Be Tax
ed?" All students are urged
to attend, all free to voice
opinon.
YM-YWCA holds interviews for
executive offices today thru
Wednesday. Sign up in 102 Y
building for exact time.
UNC VOLUNTEERS for
McCarthy will hold an
organizational campaign
kick-off meeting at 7 p.m. in
Gerrard Hall. All concerned
and interested students urg
ed to attend.
EXPERIMENTAL College
"Immorality: Fact or Fic
tion" meets at 7:30 p.m. in
room 16, Parish of Chapel of
the Cross. 304 E. Franklin St.
St. Patrick's
Day
Next Sunday
Get Your
Studio Cards
and
Party Supplies
at
volunteered
ani really
worthwhile,
ncoful
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A volunteer explains makeup cost and application to a patient
... in a social adjustment class at Umstead Hospital
A DTH Movie Review
Power"
By JOE SANDERS
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
The Power. Starring George
Hamilton, Michael Renie and
Suzanne Pleshette, M.G.M.
The problem with the
alphabet is that it has only 26
letters. By calling a film grade
"Z", then, one must imply that
it is 'Only 26 places lower than
one that is "grade A".
The Power is far lower. It
finished up at the Carolina
theater yesterday, and the pic
ture was one of worst to visit
Chapel Hill in years, except
Museum Has
A glazed terracotta camel,
an example of Chinese
funerary art, has been given to
the North Carolina Museum o
Art by Mr. Lewis M. Heflin of
Lexington, Ky., according to
Dr. Justus Bier, musum direc
tor. The camel, about 19 inches
high, is of the T'ang Dynasty
(618-906 A . D . ) and was
evidently found- in an ex
cavated tomb of this period. :
- "Our collection "is very short
of terns of any consequence in
Chinese art," Dr. Bier said.
FELIX GREENE'S film
"Inside North Vietnam" will
be shown at Duke Universi
ty, with a 50 cents charge.
There will be three show
ings: 3 p.m., Page
Auditorium; 7 and 9 p.m.
Biological Sciences Bldg.,
West Campus.
MITCH RYDER "Soul" Show Thurs. Mar. 14
Soul music can be happy,
but it can't be fun. It has
two essential ingredients
wildness, controlled (Anthony
and the Imperials) or indul
ged (James Brown), and faith
in itself, a religious virtue
after all. It can be horribly
mawkish Danny Boy, with
that great high note is a
favorite on Amateur Night at
the Apollo but it always
projects honest emotional ef
fort The Beatles and The
Stones are wonderful partly
because they're never that
sincere. Even if they were,
though, they probably would
n't get soul-station play a
lot of soulful white music is
ignored, now because the
soul market is still a race
market and demands fervid
imitation. (Similarly, the
Country-Western market re
mains all-white.) The very
few Negro groups who sound
white most notably The 5th
Dimension (on the Soul City
label), which crosses The
Mama's and The Papa's with
The Swingle Singers get
no play either.
And the old racism is still
with us. Although such frank
ly black music has never be
fore been so popular with
whites, &their range of re
sponse is limited. When a
Harlem teen-ager (or house
wifesoul is not teen music
among Negroes) buys a rec
ord by Otis Redding, she
most likely wants a surro
gate for .the show that left
her screaming at the Apollo
or the Brevoort. Redding
white fans may like to dance
to him or listen to him, but
they aren't conscious of him
as a sexual object. Yet
Low Grade Flick
Spree, that played at . the
Varsity a week before.
George Hamilton "plays" at
being a scientist (James Tan
ner) who heads a team stu
dying the effects of pain for
NASA. His frolicking with
female scientist Suzanne
Pleshette is interrupted one
night by a worried wife who
want him to find her scientist
husband.
Hamilton finds him, all right,
with his face contorted from
an extended spin on a
cyclotron. Hamilton is, of
T'ang Camel
"This terracotta camel
represents an important period
in Chinese art history'.'
He added that in such tombs
precious possessions of the
owners were represented by
small terracotta replicas. It as
hoped that the' owner of the
tomb might thus retain their
services in the other world.
The period of the Six
Dynasties had few specatcular
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runerary sculpture. During the
T'ang Dynasty, however, there
was a great variety of ceramic
products which, like the tomb
figures, reflected the trend of
the times. It was the practice
to place in the grave a series
of 12 standing figures with the
heads of the animals of the
zodiac; Horses and camels oc
curred almost always in pairs
and requently sculpture con
tinued for a considerable
length of time and in the
British Museum there are
tomb figures from a tomb in
Szechwan province dating from
the year 839.
the popularity of singers like
Redding and Brown has made
possible (and perhaps nec
essary) a new kind of sexual
candor among white perform
ers. Among these, I think
Mitch Ryder is special.
But soul is more than what
goes on a record. It has
grown out of the revival
meeting and the blues show.
The major soul performers
travel from city to city with
their own bands, costumes,
and choreography, refurbish
ing personal contacts in
shows that well may end with
the singer prostrate on the
floor, screaming incantatory
syllables into the microphone
as he reaches to touch the
(mostly female) hands ex
tended over the footlights.
Unlike any other white per
former, Ryder &follows the
same pattern. He travels with
his own ten-piece orchestra,
choreography by Jaime Rod-
! I ,
course, tabbed with the
murder, and skips town to find
the real killer, who seems to
have super-natural powers.
The remainder of the picture
is an unrelated collection of
adventures that lead nowhere
not even to the end of the
film. The climax is thrown in
by Hamilton having a test of
will with Michael Renie that
does the poor man in.
George Hamilton's problem
is that he can't act. Those of
even average intelligence will
find him particularly boring.
He doesn't know what to do
with his hands, he stands as if
the bottoms of his feet are
sore. In short, he has neither
grace nor sense of subtlety.
Susanne Pleshette has looks,
and she act up with the
minimum effort needed to
fulfill the contract She might
someday make a good situa
tion comedienne or a
California politician.
It is a shame that Aldo Ray,
who began doing good jobs in
good film should be reduced to
a bit part in this one. He arv
pears briefly, aging and pudgy..
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he, like Lee Marvin, will be
able to break away from the
endless roles as a heavy and
gain a following on his own.
Both the Varsity and .the
Carolina theaters have been
barren this winter. Since Bon
nie and Clyde, only The Inci
dent has passed through to
give viewers in this area
something good to watch. The
greatest furor over a movie
this semester has been for The
Graduate that appeared in
Durham. The movies shown in
Chapel Hill have come and
gone unnoticed, distinguished
only by their complete lack of
merit.
gers, and costumes ($1,000
apiecefof lame, organdy,
translucent silk) by Charles
Lisenby; a spectacular show
and Ryder makes it go. He
is the genuine article. Born
in a Detroit suburb, he grew
up singing R&B with many
of the Negro artists nor with
Motown. He is intelligent
with slightly hoody good
looks, and his stage presence
is extraordinary he seems to
swell with an infusion of the
Host as he begins each song.
When Ryder feels in touch
with his audience, he can
plan just when he is going
to collapse off the stage, and
count on getting the same
response in a college audi
torium that James Brown
does at the Apollo. The myth
of the soul performer is one
of identification rather than
entertainment It is to Ryd
er's credit that he can make
it work in a new context
Soul is an act a deliberate
manifestation of a special
emotional set Its mystique
is often silly. But for a
. whits audience, and in per
son, Ryder does soul as well
as it can be done. Maybe
, someday the Negro perform
ers wilt be able to do it
themselves. I hope so.
Tickets cn S2I3
at G.M.
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