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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL Wednesday, March 2, 1966 Page Three
Is Lively Discussions
By UNC-C Professors
Believe? Patch Of Blue’ Is
By ELLISON CLARY, JR.
Journal Staff Writer
Every Sunday morning between
9:30 and 10:00, four UNC-C
professors may be heard on the
air waves of radio station WAYS
in a program called “Frankly
Speaking”.
“Frankly Speaking” is an
open end discussion featuring
question and answer conversa-
ttor'S between professors about
highly interesting and often
controversiai topics.
The show, which has been
aired since early September,
1965, has a panel style structure.
Dr. Joseph Slechta, associate
professor of French here, serves
as moderator, and three other
members of our faculty fill seats
on the panel which rotates each
week.
There is no script for “Frankly
Speaking” since the topic for
each week’s discussion is not
chosen until just prior to its
taping. This makes for spontane
ous discussion on topics of con
cern to the general public, the
academic world, or both.
Examples of subjects which
have been examined range from
“The Speaker Ban”, “Los Ange
les Riots”, “What is Commu
nism”, and “Right to Work
Laws” to “The Professor’s Re
sponsibilities”, “Atheletics in
College”, “Cheating In College”,
and “Why Students Fail”. One of
the most interesting recent dis
cussions took place over the
question, “Why Go to the
Moon?”
In an interview. Dr. Slechta
emphasized the Impulsive as
pect of the show. “The discus
sions are organized around
s p o n t a neous conversations
whieh might be heard between
professors over a cup of coffee.
We don’t clai.in to be experts in
the fields that we discuss, but
occasionally we are.”
Dr. Slechta said the program
has received a “generally favor
able reaction” from an audience
whose exact size is unknown.
“We don’t know how large our
audience is, but we do know that
many faculty members and their
families listen regularly,” he
stated.
Not many students have heard
“Frankly Speaking” partly be-
Is Christie
Ugliest Man
On Camp ns?
“Craving (Randie) Christie” is
dang near ugly. And !he obvious
fact was r^adhy affirmed last
week by the student body.
Christie, who had lo wear a
face mask in a picture so that
the photo would not be banned by
the obscenity committee, solved
the Young Democrats Club's
Ugly Man on Campus search.
His image, posted on a tat
little jar down in the cafeteria,
added $3.87 to YDC’s kitty.
“Flopping Dick” Morris gath
ered $3.02 to the fund.
The contfjt netted $l.'i.03 for
the club.
Christie got for his troubles pf
uglir.ess a “date” wi.a Miss
Charline Crumpley, who is Miss
Monroe. It should be interesting.
Oh, well.
cause of their ignorance of its
existence. However, some stu
dents have stumbled upon it by
accident and liked what they
heard.
The comments of Horace Led
ford seem to be representative of
student opinion.
“I was just playing with my
radio dial when I found it
(Frankly Speaking). I couldn’t
switch stations until it was
over. It was most interesting
as well as Intellectual,” he
said.
Dr. Slechta’s original panel for
the first broadcast of September
5, 1965, included Dr. Viaro, Dr.
Kuppers, and Dr. Matthews.
Since then, about one-fourth of
the faculty members have filled
panel positions at least once.
Professors who have appeared
rather frequently in the past, in
addition to the original three,
include doctors Perel, Blachman,
Diamant, Windholtz, Robbins,
and Ellis. Dr. Slechta is always
happy to have members of the
faculty who haven’t been on the
show before to volunteer tor a
stint on the panel.
Answers To
Would You Believe?
1. Lt.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
head of the Selective Service
System
2. “Alley Oop”
3. Country and western star
Red Foley
4. Gladstone Gander
5. Mortimer Snerd
6. Thomas
7. Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll
8. Charles DeGaulle was born
9. Issur Danielovitch
10. Lat. 25d 47’ north. Long. 80d
8’ west
11. Razors, blades, and lather
12. Abby Van Buren
13. Carolyn Keene
14. Arnold Stang
15. The Hot Nuts
16. Singing the “Wabash Can
nonball”
17. There was no Vice-President
then; the office was left vacant
when Truman became President
following Roosevelt’s death in
1945.
18. Because he had to go to the
bat’room—stole that one before
Clary could use it.
19. No, we do not believe it,
Dan.
20. He plays Batman
21. Movie star Audie Murphy
22. Everett Jordan and Sam
Ervin
23. Sam Jaffe
24. Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope,
and Richard Nixon.
You Are Almost
Sure To Get
/tCTfPjV
When You
Advertise In
The Carolina
Journal
The Newspaper Of The
Acton Generation
By LEE WASSON
Journal Staff Writer
(1) Who is the nicest, kindest
man in the world?
(2) What was the only hit
record of the Hollywood Argyles?
(3) Who is Pat Boones’ Father-
in-Law?
(4) Who is Donald Duck’s lucky
relative?
(5) What was the name of
Edgar Bergen’s stupid dummy?
(6) What was Lawrence of
Arabia’s first name?
(7) Who played the original
“Amos and Andy”?
(8) What happened to NATO
on November 22, 1890?
(9) What is actor Kirk Doug
las’ real name?
(10) What is the latitude and
longitude of Miami Beach?
(11) What does the Gillette
Company have that our political
science Department needs?
(12) Who is Ann Lander’s sis
ter?
(13) W'ho wrote the Nancy Drew
stories?
(14) Who played Francis the
wise-guy stagehand on Milton
Berle’s TV Show?
(15) What is the name of Doug
Clark’s combo?
(16) For what is Dizzy Dean
Famous?
(17) Who served as vice-presi
dent under Truman in 1947?
(18) Why did Batman go into
the bat-cave?
(19) Would you believe “there
has been no attempt to censor
free speech at the University, no
political interference in academic
affairs and no attempt to dictate
a speaker policy at the Universi
ty.”?
(20) Who is Adam West.
(21) Who was the most deco
rated soldier of World War II?
(22) Name North Carolina’s two
U.S. Senators.
(23) Who played Dr. Zorba on
“Ben Casey”?
(24) N ame three famous
comedians with large noses.
Controversial But Good
A Review
By RICK DANCY
Movie reviewers have become
notorious tor their cynicism and
it has often been said that it is
easier to get blood out of a turnip
than to wrestle a compliment out
of a reviewer.
Every once in a while, how
ever, a film comes along which
is so good that the reviewer
doesn’t need “no-doze” to stay
awake. Not only will the subject
cf this review, “A Patch of
Blue” starring Sidney Poitier,
Shelley Winters, and Elizabeth
Hartman, keep you awake but it
will choke up with emotion all
but the hardest hearted reviewer.
The (heme, not new but won
derfully refreshing, deals with
the drama of a young blind girl
named Selina (played by Miss
Hartman) who falls in love with a
fellow named Gordon (Poitier)
whom she meets in the park. It's
a little more involved than the
usual lave affair since Selina is
white and Gordon is a Negro.
Selina lives in n shabby tene
ment with her alcoholic grandfa
ther (Wallace Ford) and prosti
tute mother (Miss Winters, both
of whom hahitimlly mistreat her,
completely cut off from the
outside w c r 1 d . Selina’s only
plea.sure is being taken to the
park and it is in the park that
she is befriended by Gordon
Ralfe. Unaware that she and her
new friend “live in different
worlds,” Selina builds her whole
existence around her daily visits
to the park and her meetings
with Gordon.
As the meetings continue Selina
falls in love with her “teacher.”
Gordon is deeply concerned that
the young girl has never received
any instruction which would bet
ter prepare her for a more
normal life and introduces her to
Braille writings and such social
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Wlien Rose-Ann (Miss Winters)
sees the two together she at
tempts to end the whole affair
and tells Selina that Gordon is
nothing but a “big black buck”.
This revelation brings only a
smile to the beauty’s face and
the mother decides to bring her
into the profession. Gordon is as
surprised as anyone when he
finds that Selina knows of his
race and is still in love with him.
Although it wouldn’t be fair to
reveal the outcome, 1 will predict
that there will be very few in the
audience who are not rooting tor
Selina to be given her chance to
realize her dreams.
The characters depicted in this
drama are extremely difficult to
]5ortray but thci cast does a re
markable job. Poitier is probably
the only actor who could do a
good job as Gordon: Shelley Win
ters makes herself so completely
contemptible as a loudmouthed,
vulgar and domineering mother
(hat she has been nominated for
an academy award tor best sup
porting actre.ss: and of course,
Elizabeth Hartman, without who
the whole drama would lail, de-
servos her nomination tor best
actress.
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