BELLES OF ST. MARY’S
March 12, 1965 Mai
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Letters To The Editor
Books In Review: CANDY
March 7th-17th*—Mary Poppins star
ring Julie Andrews and Dick Van
Dyke.
By Mary Virginia Hurt
March 7th—How to Murder Your
Wife.
March 12th’’'—Those Calloways.
VARSITY
March 7th—Sex and the Single Girl.
March 14th—Yesterday, Today, and
March 10th—Love Has Many Faces
starring Lana Turner.
*"dates not definite.
There is a sensational new book
on the market by Terry Southern
and Mason HolFenberg called Candy.
Candy Christian is an extremely ac
tive and impressionable young girl
who had what proves to be a rather
unwholesome desire to be “needed.”
Living under the strict and uneffec
tive rule of her somewhat unaffec-
tionate father, Candy seeks to pro
vide understanding and sympathy to
virtually everyone with whom she
comes into contact —from her melic-
ious and sex-starved Professor Me-
phesto — to the withered telegraph
messenger and even to the mysterious
Budah, not to mention countless
others. Above all, Candy seeks to
please. She is very wary of making
value judgments or of placing too
much emphasis on material things.
Candy, greatly influenced by the
new concepts introduced by Profes
sor Mephesto, gives herself freely
wherever she is “needed” for as the
professor says, “To give oneself-
fully — is not merely duty prescrib
ed by an outmoded superstition, it
is a beautiful and thrilling privilege.”
Candy defends her behavior by men
tally reasoning that her gift to man
kind is the gratification of the needs
of others. The reader follows Candy’s
adventures from her small home town
to Greenwich Village to a mystic
Cracker Colony in Minnesota, where
she meets Grindle, and finally to
Tibet. The circumstance, having co
incidences leading from one physical
experience to another, lead to a fan
tastic surprise ending that leaves the
reader in an uncontrolable state of
hysteria. Southern and Hoffenberg
have written this little novel as a
unique satire on the profuse and pro
fane sex books of today. In order to
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By Sally Little
Should college students be permit
ted to hear speakers of extremist po
litical views? This question is sting
ing legislators, students, teachers, and
citizens. A negative answer to it de
notes superficial concern for the wel
fare of America or the image of the
institution. The fear of a students
being easily swayed by a surging
Communist speaker is actually a fear
rooted in feelings of inadequacy. Cer
tainly this attitude publishes a lack
of faith in our chosen form of gov
ernment.
A confession of this fear and an
absurd incongruity in America today
is the North Carolina speaker-ban
law. The law prohibits Communists
from speaking on state campuses re
gardless of the subject of the lectures.
Students can not even hear lectures
on matters as remotely Communistic
as nuclear physics. This particular
aspect is the supreme folly of the
speaker-ban law. But not to be over
estimated is the “worth” of prohibit
ing Communist speakers discussing
Communism itself.
“Forty-thirty, our serve!” screamed the excited St. Mary’s girl, bouncing
around on the tennis court—at N.C. State?? Tritely said, but truly spoken,
for the advanced tennis classes are spending two-hour labs on State courts
for lack of facilities on campus. The inconveniences of obtaining transporta
tion to State College, the valuable class time wasted, and the thus limited
possibilities of recruits for this class are minor in themselves compared to the
overall limitations of inadequate courts on campus. Tennis is a typical sport
in that one must practice, practice, practice to achieve any degree of pro
ficiency. The gym is no place to even bounce a ball without fear of breaking
five or six windows. Perhaps many feel that there is not enough interest in
tennis. What interest there is is stifled by the lack of convenient, proper
courts and practice backboards. Certainly a liberal education must include
all aspects of exercise, physical and mental. Granted, that sometimes available
funds are not used, because a suitable contract does materialize. Any college
is always in need of more and better facilities, but let s not shove this idea in
the background of possibilities. It is the feeling of this and other individuals
that St. Mary’s is preventing the development of great potentiality in the field
of sports for women, especially in an outdoor sport in which women can excel.
P. V. L., V. W. C., G. K.
Doesn’t it boil down to a question
of the basic freedom to learn? The
strength of America is the policy or
hearing both sides of an issue be
fore making a judgment. The stu
dent, too, should have the right to
make knowledgeable decisions even
on political philosophies. Our repre
sentative democracy and capitalistic
system work only because enough
ireople believe in it with open-eyed
faith rather than blind committal.
A screaming voice for academic
freedom has come from Berkeley,
California. At this campus of the
University of California riots and sit-
ins have protested the ruling of the
administration forbidding the use ol
the campus for money-raising and re
cruiting for political activities. The
“cause” behind the more than Jt
thousand student rioters has explod
ed to shocking proportions: univer
sity property was seized and all ad
ministrative activities were brough
to a halt for a week last December.
Needless to say, these methods ot
protestation are not to be condoned
However, the real emphasis — as
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their own initiative. The educationa
process cannot and should not be con
fined to the classroom.” The speaker
ban law and the Berkeley affair ilm'
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