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Page Four THE CAMPUS ECHO Monday, September 28, 1964 Trip Abroad Daye Reflects Upon Travels To Eastern World By Charles E. Daye One of the greatest oppor tunities that can come to any one is the chance to travel to countries other than one’s own. From Japan to Rome through Hong Kong, Thailand and India, one discovers what makes a world of diversity so fascinat ing to live in and learn about. It is infinitely more fascinat ing to encounter for one’s self such places. Perhaps the one most dis- sinctive change comes in the mind, or intellect if I may, of the person who travels abroad. My entire intellectual horizon seems much broader from hav ing seen what makes Japan dif ferent than Thailand, the Unit ed States different than India, the Chinese in Hong Kong dif ferent than those in America and each place distinctive from all others. The energy of the Japanese, his will power to move ahead, and his belief in hard work, no doubt accounts for much of the fact that, (1) Japan has one of the highest literacy rates in the world (with about 98 per cent of the people able to read and write) (2) Japan is a leader in trade and commerce and the Smoking, Drinking Viewed Hazards By Martha D. Rogers We are a student body of faddists. We live from day to day by trends, slogans, scares, aversions and sometimes en thusiasms. From a report of a research team last winter our campus like many other campuses re ceived a most frightening re port that cigarette smoking is definitely linked with lung can cer and other respiratory ail ments. For a while we took this report very seriously and many of us either cut down, cut out, or changed to pipe smoking. We were convinced that there is much evidence of smoking being a great menace to our health. But so is drinking, and may be moreso if alcohol is taken in great quantifies. We as stu dents seem to think that alco holic beverages serve as a sti mulant and are not harmful. This isn’t true at all. Alcohol dulls our senses and can defini tely be considered as a hazard to our health, too. Nobody seems too concern ed about this, except campus officials. They take a firm stand against smoking and drinking among the students, mainly be cause of their concern for our health habits. Naturally, we cannot believe this as being their reason, simply because they are officials. As a group, we should dis cuss these “menaces” openly and freely, and consider the possible harm they can actual ly cause to our bodies. It would be good to invite some of the officials and maybe the campus physician to give their candid views on drinking and smok ing and their possible effects upon the body. Maybe they cannot convince us to break completely the habits, but dis cussion will probably result in more nonsmokers and non drinkers on campus. The mania that smoking and drinking do not contribute to health hazards will soon be e- rased from our minds as we continue to receive reports that they are definitely linked with many harmful diseases of the body. export—import business, and that (3) Japan no longer lags beh i n d in industrialization. Hence, in Japan one finds an astonishing combination of a peculiar blending of Asian cul ture with Western values and methods. The British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, located on the South Eastern coast of As4a, represent still more vividly what the results can be with Asian culture and Western capi talistic ideals. For the economic turnover in Hong Kong is so great from industry, commerce, and the tourist business, this small speck of British-ruled soil of China is a hustling-bust- ling metropolis of 4.8 million people, mostly Chinese, who measure their success in Hong Kong dollars. Thailand, unlike either of the countries previously mention ed, has prosperity of a capita listic type without having lost much of the old Siam of ages ago. This moderate sized coun try of 30 million of whom 80 per cent are farmers, who pro duce what is reputed to be the fluffiest rice in the world, seem: to be a nation of people fair in their dealings, peaceful by their nature and prosperous from both of these. In India all of the elements that characterize the foregoing places can be found easily. This then, makes India the most complicated of them all. For in cities like Calcutta, New Delhi, and Bombay can be found those who contribute to the progress of science, industry and the arts in marked contrast to the sim ple, backward isolated villagers who live as their foreparents lived centuries ago. Ambassador to India, Ches ter Bowles, explains that, “Whatever one wants to find, whatever one wants to prove about India, he can do it.”^ I agree. Having returned home, I find a greater appreciation for my own culture and way of life. Yet, I am more tolerant and sympathetic to the other peoples’ culture and values. Communism no longer seems a “big bad word” when one sees people to whom Commu nism is not something “dread ful” but an “alternative.” At the same time, however, our system has more significance. There seems more hope for racial har mony in our own country when one finds places where racial disharmony is inconceivable to the people. The goodwill and friendliness of the man in the street of various cities around the world gives each of us a greater hope for peace and a greater responsibility in keep ing the peace which can only be done through understand ing which inevitably comes from traveling abroad. TROUBLE IN UTOPIA STORY WITH IMPLICATIONS Counseling Center Meets Needs By Harold Alexander, Director of News Bureau Confused freshmen and wor ldly-wise upperclassmen beset with problems often make their way to the basement of the North Carolina College Ad ministration Building to talk over their difficulties with one of the three full-time counse lors there. Equipped with sympathetic ears and chock-full of answers in the Counseling Center are counselors James H. Knight, Miss Lettie D. Evans, and Mrs. Alma Biggers. Among their ob jectives ( as stated in the cen ter’s annual report, are: “To relate to students in such a manner that they will not fo cus on what they chance to be at the moment, but on what they may become if they en hance their growth by making the most of the opportunities which are theirs. “To help students perceive that solutions to their problems cannot be handed to them by others but must and can be found within their own moral and intellectual resources. “To inspire students to lift their vision and to move ener getically toward far-stretched, new horizons. To somehow help them to see that in this new day the only limitations are those that they unwittingly set for themselves. “To exhibit always an atti tude of cooperation and helpful ness as convincing evidence of our love and sincere concern for students, teachers and all others who are part of the NCC family.” During the 1963-64 academic year more than 1,400 students availed themselves of counsel ing services, and numerous other had lost articles returned to them through the center’s lost and found service. Still others took a variety of tests to determine such things as their interests, academic poten tialities, and mechaniccal apti tudes. In addition to the three coun selors, the office employes a full-time secretary and a stu dent helper in its efforts “to promote the emotional, social and academic adjustment and growth” of the college’s stu dents. According to Knight, who is active in the college’s fresh man orientation program which began September 8, the Counse ling Center plans expansion of its services in several areas during the current school year. welcome NCC STUDENTS AND FACILTY RAY'S JEWELERS BUDGET ACCOIJTVrS EWITED Shop Where Your Patronage Is Appreciated 213 W. Main Street Downtown Durham By Louise De Laurentis Rodney was not a watermel on boy. He did not like water melon. He had never liked watermelon. And he was will ing to bet he never would like it. But all the other boys along the street liked watermelon. All their brothers liked it. And all their sisters did too. So all their mothers were sure that Rodney must like watermelon. Every hot day in the summer when Rodney was playing with Bill, Bill’s mother said, “How about a nice cold slice of water melon, Rodney!” Rodney said, “No thank you, Ma’m.” Every hot day when he was playing with John, John’s mot her said, “How about a nice cool slice of watermelon, Rod ney?” Rodney said, “No thank you, Ma’m.” And every hot day when he was playing with David, Dav id’s mother said, “How about a nice cool slice of watermelon, Rodney?” Rodney said, “No thank you, Ma’m.” He was afraid it would make people feel mixed up if he said he didn’t like watermel on. But one very hot day, he got tired of saying the same thing, so when David’s mother said, “How about a nice cool slice of watermelon, Rodney said, “No thank you, Ma’m. You see, I don’t like watermelon.” “What!” exclaimed David’s mother. “Why I thought all little Negro boys liked water melon.” Then her face turned as red as the slice of water melon. She said, “I’m sorry, Rodney. I didn’t mean to say that. You see, I remember when David didn’t like ice cream.” Rodney looked at the pretty slice of watermelon with Its shining black and white seeds. He was sorry he had made David’s mother feel mixed up because he liked her best of all the mothers along the street, except his own mother. He lik ed his own mother best because she sang so pretty. At David’s birthday party, David’s mother tried to help them sing “Happy Birthday,” and she didn’t sing it right at all. That night Rodney had a dream. In his dream, the grass along the street was bright red. The street looked like a big watermelon. Bill and John and David and their brothers and sisters were white seeds. Rod ney and his brothers and sisters and all of his cousins, even the ones who lived on other streets were black seeds. A big white dog came into town, and he came to Rodney’s street, and ate up the red grass and the red houses and every thing along the street. He ate up Bill and John and David and their brothers and sisters. He ate up Rodney’s brothers and sisters and all of his cou sins, even the ones who lived on other streets. Last, he ate up Rodney. After that, there was a great storm with lots of thunder and lots of lightning. A huge flash of lightning came down to the place where the big dog was sleeping. The lightning hit the dog and made him sick. The big dog spit up Bill and John and David and their brot hers and sisters. The dog spit up Rodney’s brother and sisters and all of his cousins—even the ones who lived on other streets. Then he spit up the red grass, but now it wasn’t red any more. It was green. Last of all, he spit up Rodney. Rodney woke up from his dream. He was sitting on the floor beside his bed, and the lightning was still flashing, and he was scared. He called his mother, and she came and help ed him back into bed and sang to him. She sang so pretty that everything was all right again, except that maybe David’s mother still felt mixed up. 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