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Wednesday, December 13, 19675
No. 13
Saunders Is Crowned Queen
At Holiday Dance Dec. 9
MBS BECKY SAUNDERS
BY ROD SMITH
On Saturday night, December
9, Terry Whitt and the Knights
of Music entertained approxi
mately 100 couples at the Uni
versity Union’s annual Holiday
Dance. At the hour of ten, Miss
Becky Saunders was crowned Holi
day Queen for 1967 by Miss Earl-
ene Mabry, last year’s Queen. The
Queens’ Court consisted of the
following: Miss Barbara Jean
Smith, escorted by Mr. Bill Lock-
ridge; Miss Cindy Trexler, es
corted by Mr. Steve McCotter;
Miss Pam Burt, escorted by Mr.
Bucky Driggers; and Miss Janice
Fleicher, escorted by Mr. Roger
Crosswall.
Miss Saunders was elected from
among the five finalists by the
More Dance
Pictures
On Page 2
student body, after being selected
by a panel of student officers under
the guidance of Mr. Steele, from
aj?)roximately thirty young ladies
nominated by the students.
The dance took place in the
Parquet Room, which was deco
rated in a Christmas motif by
Carol Morris, Homer Gaddis, and
other members of the Union Social
Committee. Punch was served by
Charlie Brown to the big band
sounds of Whitt’s Knights.
As a side note, the ever-vigilant
security guard, Mr. Young almost
called off the entire dance. Accor
ding to band leader Terry Whitt,
“He pulled a gun on me.” ’
Creative Spirit In Nonfiction
Fonr N. C. Writers Discuss
Four well-known North Carolina
writers were on campus Friday
night, December 8, to discuss the
question, “Does Nonfiction Kill
The Creative Spirit” in the fifth
annual N. C. Writers’ Forum.
The panel included Mrs. Doris
Betts, Jonathan Daniels, Mrs.
Frances Gray Patton, and Tom
Wicker, and was moderated by
Sam Ragan, executive editor of
the Raleigh News and Observer.
Mr. Ragan introduced the panel
by stating that all four members
had writte n both nonfiction and
‘Students Must Revive Interest In
Educational Pursuits When It Wains
By Wendy Kleinfield
“The students of this institu
tion are becoming bored because
they have tacitly accepted two
opposing ideals about educa
tion,” declared Miss Pat Harris
in her Last Lecture, Wednesday,
December 6, in the Union.
“The ideals are those evolving
from the business world and so
ciety, which conflict with learn
ing for learning’s sake,” she con
tinued.
“I was frustrated by the same
pressures as a student, and I
am personally concerned as a
professor,” said Miss Harris.
She feels that students have been
hoaxed into missing the whole
point of an educational exper-
ience-that they cheat themselves
greatly when they begin to think
of a degree in terms of a salary,
whe n they let their professors
set the standards of a class to
get by on as little as possible,
when they rely on quantitative
things, such as an Inflexible grad
ing system to tell them they are
educated.
“It is not enough,” she pointed
out, “just to have your little
warm bodies there at every class
meeting, and to meet all those
requirements you wrote in the
front of your new notebooks. You
must bring your class efforts into
line with your total education. You
must constantly revive your opin
ions of your professors, your sub
jects, and your personal needs.”
According to Miss Harris, this
resiliency, this rehabilitative de
vice Is the most important thing
a student can develop during his
college years.
“Society is full of bored people,
most of them well-educated, who
can’t find an interest in life be
cause they can’t develop an in
terest in life,” she said.
Miss Harris challenged students
to learn how to live life in its
fullest scope.
creative writing at one time or
another, and that quite often they
had straddled the fence.
Mrs. Patton, who is best known
for her novel, “Good Morning,
Miss Dove,” stated that there is
more nonfiction being written now
than before because it has
priority with the editors.
“The writer must feel the great
importance of his own subjective
experience. . , and that calls for
terrific strength of character and
a terrific sense of the worth of
his own imagination,” she told
the audience of 500 people.
Tom Wicker, who is head of
the New York Times Washington
Bureau and a native of Hamlet,
indicated that he made no distin
ction in his own mind between
fiction and nonfiction.
He stated that both must “con
tain some truth about ourselves
and about the world around us.”
“There is only one way to tell
a story,” said Wicker, “and the
writer’s job is to find it.”
According to Wicker, the jour
nalist is one of the last writers
in America to experience life in
the raw and “all the convulsions
of humanity.”
Novelist and short story writer
Doris Betts, a resident of San
ford, made the distinction between
literature and journalism that the
former tells “how it is or was”
while the lattertells “whathappens
or happened.”
According to Mrs. Betts, liter
ature gives a fuller rendering of
what has happened in our lives.
She stated that she had never
felt the same satisfaction in
journalism as in fiction.
Jonathan Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh News and Observer, felt
that writers have very little diff
erence.
“Anything is a legitimate art
form which attracts and holds the
attention of readers,” he stated.
He teased Mrs. Betts somewhat,
saying, “She seems to feel that
the fiction writer is somehow more
elegant than the boy in the city
room.”
Daniels concluded, “Real
writers are indestructable...
Nothing is going to destroy the
writer who Is the writer.”
Senior Hal Hughes And Burrow Win 49’er
Beard Contest, Kimbrell Presents Prize
Looking much as though he had
just come in off the gold-pan
ning circuit to compete in the
49’er Beard Contest, Hal Hughes
and his burrow walked away with
the honors at the judging in the
cafeteria on December 6.
BY CAROLE CANADY
When presented with the rusty
razor given as “prize” for his
victory by Candy Kimbrell, an
nual editor, Hal grinned and said,
“Thank you very much.”
The real reward for being most
like the traditional 48’er was a case
of beer of the winner’s choice.
(Presented off campus, of course!)
Hal is a twenty-nine year old
senior majoring in mechanical en
gineering. He attended N. C. State
for two years and this is his
second year here.
Consolidated Student Council
Holds Third Meeting Here
BY JOE McCORKLE
The third regular meeting of
the Student Council of the Con
solidated University of North Car
olina was held on this campus at
3 p.m. on December 10.
The Council is composed of dele
gates from each of the four
branches of the Consolidated Uni
versity.
Jimmy Price, who is the chair
man of this campus’ delegation
presided over the meeting in the
absence of John Gaither, Presi
dent of the Council.
The other delegates repre
senting this campus were Larry
McAfee, Joe McCorkle, Fred Set-
zer, Larry Williams, and Phil
Wilson. Bill BiUups serves as
Secretary for the Council.
A report from the 1. D. Card
Committee stated that there is a
good possibility that some agree
ment can be made between the four
branches of the University to get
student I. D. cards honored at
athletic, cultural, and social events
on all four campuses.
The Council has established a
committee which will make a study
of the dormitory construction price
limit of $3,400.00 per person.
This ceiling was imposed by the
North Carolina General Assembly
some time ago and applies to all
state supported colleges and uni
versities. It is causing serious
problems because construction
costs have risen considerably
since the enactment of this limit.
This fact is the reason that
new dormitories offer less space
per student than the older ones.
The delegates from UNC-G men
tioned that some of their new dorm s
have unpainted sections and that
some sections do not even have
closets or curtains,
The new dorms on this campus
may not be air-conditioned because
of this $3,400 limit.
Candy Kimbrell, annual editor, presents 49’er Beard Contest Winner, Hal Hughes with rusty
razor.