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V!!c Library Serials Dg Box 870 Chapel Hilt i I" ' ft i Wlutt Dean Long Knoics. See Edits, Page Two Partly cloudy and cooler 4? r r . 1 f O N N - I I rv J Lj 1 ) Offices in Graham Memorial Carolina Grierson, Seldes To Be Featured Tomorrow Night Critic John Seldes and film pro ducer John Grierson will be the featured speakers at Monday's Symposium in Memorial Hall at 8. The pair will speak on "Revolu tions in the Arts." Their talks will include discus sions not only of art per se, but of the general cultural revolution which may be seen in the rapidly changing cultural tastes of today's world. Seldes and Grierson are slated to discuss the whole spect rum of these changes in art. Only Foreign Speaker Grierson, who arrived here Fri day night, is the only foreign speak er who will appear during the sym posium. Grierson is a Scotsman who founded and led the British documentary film movement which caused radical changes in film pro duction throughout the world. Two of his films, "Brandy for the Par son" and "The Brave Don't Cry" have appeared here as free flicks. Most of Britain's realistic film directors have been members of his film units from one time to another. Out of this association has sprung such films as "Satur day Night and Sunday Morning." ' " " Career Non-Conformist Gilbert Seldes arriving here to night by plane, classifies himself as an entertainment critic and author and his field of interest ranges from motion pictures and televison to the theater and pure literature. He has been termed by one critic as a "career non-conformist in the world of ideas," and attempts to speak for the" underdog, the origin ator and the rebel. He produced the TV series "Immigrants All American All" and wrote "The Stammering Century," a study of eccentric religions, political and social groups in the United States. A Harvard graduate, Seldes is the first director of the Annen berg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Pranksters At Wake Forest Steal Bomb Shelter Signs Shelter Signs Stolen WINSTON-SALEM Civil Defense "shelter" signs were removed from the doors and walls of four Wake Forest buildings by either prank sters or potestes last week. The signs had been posted for about two weeks and a campus wide controversy had followed their erection. The protest cen tered around a belief that the signs indicated a "fear psychosis" and generally detracted from the ap pearance of the campus. The signs, erected as part of a student-faculty Civil Defense pro gram, have been replaced - by splochcs of paint on doors and windows: Academic Freedom URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 111. The distribution of 4000 academic free dom petitions calling for removal of state and University restrictions on "controversial speakers" began last week on the University of Il linois campus. - Illini ; editor .Wade Freeman, chairman of the petition drive, stated that the campaign had gath ered support from "both liberal and conservative groups. "In essence," he stated, "we're asking for the removal, of xmtrols which deny students the right to hear any opinion deemed "contro versial."' The petition states in part: "We favor the alteration" of any Univer sity policy or state law that serves the end of regulating or restricting such 'controversial speakers." Soda Champion CHARLOTTESVTLLE A Univer sity of Virginia sophomore claimed a world record last week after he drank nine consecutive sodas at a local drug: store. '," . The champ revealed the secret of .'his success after "hrAstiiVg that s 3 Dr. John Grierson as students Race Relations Is Topic Of Discussion "The Contemporary Revolution in Race Relations" will be discus sed Monday afternoon by a three man panel that will include NAACP lawyer, a segregationist newspaper editor and the chairman of the advisory committee for the North Carolina Civil Rights Commission. The panel, to be moderated by Dr. Walter Spearman of the school of journalism, will include Floyd B. 'McKissick, Jack Kilpatrick, and he could have drank 18 if the store had not closed. "Drinking plenty of water" is the secret, he confided, and then admitted that he also smoked a pack of cigarettes during his two-and-a-half hour guzzling bout. Voting Reward MORGANTOWN, W. Va. Good citizenship was rewarded last week at the University of West Virginia's elections. The coed dorm and sor ority with the highest percentage of students voting received Sunday night late permission until 1 a.m. Housing Discrimination URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, nK The University of Illinois trustees voted last week that single undergradu ate students would not be allowed to reside in segregated commer cially operated boarding houses af ter Sept. 1, 1965. The action is expected to end all housing discrimination on the basis of race, creed and national origin. The trustees failed to act on. a similar proposal affecting fraterni ties and sororities. Fraternity Troubles ANN ARBOR, Mich. The Sigma Nu national placed its University of Michigan chapter in receivorship last week, thus withdrawing all authority for the local to handle its own affairs. The action came after the fra ternity's failure to comply with a University rule forbidding discrim ination clauses in fraternity chap ters. Other reasons cited for the action were scholastic troubles, local fin ances, poor morale and a lowered reputation ; on campus. . . The local's compliance law troubles stemmed from the failure of the national fraternity to elimin ate$imiitftry clauses. : - .-. ymposium -i t t -0 he ate tcith Carolina yesterday. Photo by Jim Wallace John McNeill Smith. McKissick, the first Negro gradu ate of the UNC Law School, has been active in racial matters for the NAACP both in Durham and other parts of the South. He was also a leader in the movement for total integration of Chapel Hill theaters . McKissick was the attorney in the 1951 suit that resulted in ad mission of the first Negro under graduate to UNC. A lawyer in Durham since 1952, he established the first Negro law firm in Dur ham and is currently the vice-presi dent of the Durham branch of the NAACP. Jack Kilpatrick, a self - styled Whig, became editor of The Rich mond News Leader in 1950. A graduate of the University of Mis ouri, he was honored by Missouri in 1953 for his work in the cam paign for the release from prison of a Negro life-termer who had been mistakenly convicted of mur der. He is the author of three books, "The Sovereign States," "The Last ing South," and "The Smut Ped dlers," and has written, "I keep reading about the Negro's 'quest for equality.' It occurs to me he might begin in his own backyard simply by cleaning up the trash and repairing a broken fence." Smith will not be in unfamiliar environment when he returns to the University for his participation in the Race Panel. A former edi tor of the Daily Tar Heel, he was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the Order of the Grail during his years on the Carolina campus. Smith, who believes that "every man charged with an offense is entitled- to a defense and the best defense his lawyer can give; the more serious the charge, the more serious the need," was select ed in 1959 by the Civil Rights Commission to act as chairman of an advisory committee then, being formed in North Carolina. "Stepp Denies Charge Ernest Stepp, candidate for editor in Tuesday's run-off election, - yes terday denied a statement by Mike Mathers in Saturday's DTH. Mathers stated that Stepp, "ad mits that he has never worked on I this paper." Stepp said, "I have never, admitted .this. . I have done news and sports stories for the Tar Heel." SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1962 62 Symposium Schedule For First Two Days THE CONCEPT OF REVOLUTION Sunday Night, April 1 8:00 P.M. Memorial Hall Dr. Crane Brinton, author Reception immediately following Monday Afternoon, April 2 3:00 P.M. Carroll Hall Panel Discussion: Race Relations Moderator Walter Spearman, Professor of Journalism, UNC Panel: Floyd McKissick, NAACP attorney James Kilpatrick, Editor, Richmond News Leader 'McNeill Smith, Chairman, North Carolina Advisory Committee United States Civil Rights Commission REVOLUTION IN THE ARTS Monday Night, April Z 8:00 P.M. Memorial Hall Dr. Gilbert Seldes, critic, University of Pennsylvania Dr. John Grierson, Scottish Television Limited, Glasgow Intercollegiate Seminar Begins The Intercollegiate Seminar Pro gram starting today in conjunction with the Symposium will include 24 representatives from 17 differ ent colleges and universities throughout the eastern part of the country. The students gathering to take part in this discussion group are the intellectual leaders of such schools as Temple, Pembroke, the University of Pennsylvania, Smith College, and Swarthmore, as well as the leading schools in this im mediate area. Extension Of Symposium The purpose of the Intercollegiate Seminar Program, which was in stituted in 1960, is to emphasize Lawler To Back Dorm Activities "Student government must take a realistic approach to the dormi tory social problems," Mike Lawler said yesterday as he commented on social activities. "Though the all campus weekend is a fine idea, because of certain aspects of the dorm social problem, it will be necessary to exclude a majority of undergraduate men, especially freshmen and sophomores, unless specific steps are taken to insure a successful all-campus weekend with 'all - campus participation,' said Mike Lawler yesterday. Lawler, the SP candidate for vice-president in the run-off Tues day, speaking on the problems of dormitory social life, pointed out that the freshmen and sophomore classes have few girls in them, producing an obvious lopsided Tatio. As a means of creating an at mosphere where more men and women of these classes meet each other, he proposed, more informal activities between the men's and women's dorms such as the suc cessful sock hop program begun at the Nurses' dorm this year. "Another way would be to have more co-recreational intermurals along the lines of the Grail floral Jamboree," he said. Lawler also suggested that the men's and wom en's orientation programs work closer together towards a social advantage. "I plan to orient the All-Campus Entertainment Committee more along the lines of handling campus entertainment and not just big name entertainment. I think this should be done because there are other agencies,, which because of their facilities and contacts can bring us big name entertainment at a more reasonable cost," Lawler continued. He stated that this would include such ideas as the committee pro viding a list of all student and non student combos and offering a ser vice whereby groups . could . hire combos in "package" 1 tleais ob taining: the - individual ccaicert for less cost. Opens and historian, Harvard address in Graham Memorial and extend the basic purposes of the Carolina Symposium. Via this free discussion of facts and ideas and exchange, of opinion, the Sym posium is able to present an op portunity for intellectual creativity to an interested, yet heterogeneous group of students. Morning Seminars The representatives meet with the featured speakers in seminar from 9-12 Monday through Wednes day mornings, and they will attend the scheduled afternoon and eve ning presentations. . ' The visiting seminarists will be housed and fed in various dormi tories, sororities, and fraternities during their stay at the University. McDevitt Pushes For Social Life The following is a statement on campus social activities by Larry McDevitt. UP vice-president can didate in Tuesday's run-off elec tion: "One of the major problems ex isting on the university campus to day is in the area of social con ditions. Although entertainment and social facilities are provided mainly through GMAB, these pro visions do not instill a feeling in the minds of the majority of stu dents that they "have a place to go or something to do on week ends. "Bus Lines" "To aid in correcting this, stu dent government should work to the utmost to obtain the basement of Cobb dorm next year as an all campus social room. It is my hope that weekend combos can be pro vided as well as regular "bus lines" to carry dates here from Greensboro and Raleigh. This lat ter proposal would mainly benefit male freshmen and sophomores. The idea of an off-campus hut for dormitory parties is a proposal that student government and the IDC should effect as soon as the necessary funds may be obtained. All-Campus Weekend "The idea of an all-campus week end has been tossed around for years. Those which have been tried have met with little success, and yet I firmly believe that such weekends are needed and wanted at Carolina. - A project of this nature can be successful only with the coopera tion of GMAB, the IFC, the IDC, the Campus Entertainment Com mittee, student government, and last but not least, the students of this university. "We have the potential and fin ancial means through cooperation to cause these ideas to become a reality. Student government should assume the initiative in. securing such cooperation and establishing the ail-canapus weekend." tiere I 1 - : t i Dr. Crane Brinton arrival at the vl V i 'J :. Moviemaker Says He May 'Sue Tar Heel9 By GARRY BLANCIIARD Monday night Symposium speak er John Grierson, 64, said yester day he thinks he will sue the Daily Tar Heel "for a snappy half a million, and settle for fifty bucks out of court." The reason, he said is that it printed a publicity release several weeks ago which said he had once been refused a visa to the United States. "The implication of the statement is that I was persona non grata in this country. It's an interesting point. I was never refused a visa in my life." The statement was typical of many Grierson made during an informal luncheon with a score of UNC students at a downtown restaurant yesterday afternoon. His subject matter ranged from English society ("class-ridden") to the late architect Frank Lloyd Wright ("great"). Throughout, he was pungent, and never moreso than when he talked about the motion picture world, where his ef forts have made him a living legend. If someone asked him a question which he thought was stupid, he told them so. But not in a nasty way. More like an impatient pro fessor dealing with an earnest but slightly backward pupil. Words tumbled out of him in spurts, each spoken in a Scottish accent diluted by many years spent in the United States and else where. The United States, he said, is "such a funny country. You pick the Christmas Island for your atom ic tests. You pick the Bay of Pigs to get defeated by one of the smallest countries in the world. Of all the lochs in Scotland, natur ally you pick Holy Loch to send your atomic submarine to." Student movements are strong in countries where there are no jobs for the newly educated, he said. "It's a different proposition here. You're a healthy society. I don't think you've got a student move ment of any kind here whatever." Grierson said he has talked with 3Ionday Event On TV WUNC-TV, Channel 4, will broad cast the Carolina Symposium pro gram from the University of North Carolina Monday night at 3 o'clock The topic Monday is "Revolu tions in the Arts." Speakers for the evening are Gilbert Seldes, en tertainment critic, -and John Grier son, leader in Scottish television production. relaxes following his Carolina Inn. Photo by Jim Wallace Jean-Paul Sartre, "and I found no great difference in our minds, although I'm much more apprecia tive of America than he is." Grierson and Gilbert Seldes speak on "Revolutions in the Arts" at 8 p.m. Monday in Memorial Hall. Campus Briefs Senior Committee To Meet; Cheerleaders Senior Committees 'All senior class committee mem bers have been asked to meet Sunday at 5 p.m. in the TV Room in Graham 'Memorial. The enter tainment evening, the essay con test and the Senior Week will be discussed. All students having quizzes dur ing the week of the symposium have been asked to turn in the names of their professors to the DTH office. Head Cheerleader Anyone interested in the job of head cheerleader has been asked to contact Al Roper at 968-9027 or 942-6753. Interviews will be con ducted sometime during the next two weeks. Film Society Postponed The meeting of the Film Society scheduled for Monday night has been postponed until April 8 so that members may attend the Sym posium. Newman Club The Newman Club will meet Sunday at 5:30 for supper in the basement of St. Thomas More church. A program concerning the "Mixed Marriage" will follow, con ducted by Rev. Arthur R. Free man, Vicar General of the Dio cese of Raleigh. Faculty Insurance Members of the faculty and ad' ministrative staff who have not returned a reply card concerning the Faculty Disability Insurance Plan to Dr. Richardson's office, do so immediately so you can obtain first hand information on the-pro gram. If you need a card or want an interview call 942-5067 at ehcej Complete UPI Wire Service O f oni Brinton Address Kicks Off 5-Day Revolution Study In Memorial Hall tonight at 8:00 p.m., the Carolina Symposium will open its five-day series of lectures and panels with a speech by Dr. Crane Brinton, the well-known Har vard historian. Dr. Brinton, who arrived on cam pus last night, is speaking on the historical background of revolu tions and the evolution of the term revolution as a philosophical con cept. His address is entitled "Some Concepts of Revolution." Popular Harvard Teacher After a distinguished academic career both in the United States and abroad, Brinton is now one of Harvard's most popular teachers. Because of the witty manner in which Brinton handled philosophy in the early morning hours, his 8:00 class has become known as "Breakfast with Brinton." He is one of the co-authors of "A History of Civilization," better known to the General College stu dents as "BCW," and has written many other books as well. Some of his most recent works includa "The Anatomy of Revolution," "A History of Western Morals," and "The Fate of Man," which came out in 1961. Misplaced Rationalist Brinton, who has pictured him self as a misplaced 18th century rationalist, has been termed by one critic as a "child of the En lightenment." Personally Brinton considers himself to be a quiet man who spends his summers in Ver mont pursuing such non-intellectual activities as gardening and reading detective stories. Monday Dr. Brinton will visit classes, tour the campus, and en joy a meal at a sorority house. He and his wife will leave Carolina sometime Tuesday for their return trip home. To Interview Dorm Presidents The polls will be open on Tues day, April 3 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the runoff election. Please submit your list of poll tenders to the GM Information Office by 5:00 Sunday. Orientation Interviews for men's Orienta tion counselors will be held Monday-Thursday of next week in the Grail and WToodhouse Rooms of Graham Memorial. Applications can be picked up at the Scuttlebutt, Y-Court, Gra ham Memorial, and the Reserve Reading Room of the library. These should be turned in at the Information desk at Graham Memorial by Sunday. Applicants can sign up for an interview at that time. Jobs For Wives Student wives are wanted for temporary employment by the In stitute for Research in Social Science beginning immediately and continuing until the end of the semester. The work involves the preparation of questionnaires to be mailed to teachers in the state. Preference will be given to those who can work four or more hours each day. The job will pay $1.18 an hour. Call Mrs. Myra Bass at 963-4411 or go to 301 Alumni Building. Lutheran Students 1 The Lutheran Student Associa tion will meet Sunday night at 6 for supper. A singing program will follow. -The council will meet Monday night at 6. Caving-CIimbing The Caving-Climbing Club will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. on the first floor of New East. Officers will be elected and a trip to Vir ginia will be pl.ir.ned. - u
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