UHC Library . . Serials Dopt. r-T V -7 tit D The South9 s Largest College Newspaper r ounded Feb. 23. I8S3 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1965 Volume 42, Number ii; s ' ' . ' ' : : ::::,:: : ' lillilillili llilillliillli; f - - f .'.v.v.'.w :' ASS?: Pcfe' Her iMFke : - .9 e H R By ROGER KELLY . . . - - DTH Feature Writer " Pete: an African ostrich hatched on a California ostrich farm is .now a permanent member of a research team at Duke Uni versitv. ' ' - Dr. Eugene Crawford, a research physiologist at Duke has had Pete nnw for about two and a , The bird is part of a group to learn about conservation of water and body temperature regu lntinn in warm-blooded animals. Besides Pete, the study includes iguana lizards, two smaller ostriches, and a few spiny duck-billed platypus. Only Ostrich Pete is the only full-grown feet tall. Half of his great . height toDDed off with a head containing He cost $500 and weighed only 25 pounds when Crawford acquired him. He now weighs about 230 pounds and is, according to Craw ford, "worth a lot more than $500 now." . The bird is quite healthy, and he is completely normal. The female. Pete was given his name while still a very young ostrich and it was not until the bird began laying eggs that the truth was discovered. - . ' Big "The eggs," said Crawford, pounds and are delicious. We haven't got a male, so it's just iiKe having a bunch of chickens around." . How do they eat ostrich eggs? Scrambled of course. The ostrich is a native of the tures out into the desert for considerable periods. Ihey are ex citable, nervous and easily frightened," Crawford said. "Even when raised from chicks they are still difficult to train." They have no true bird-like cry, but do make a hissing noise when excited. Do thev reallv burv their heads in the sand? According to Crawford, they 0 , a, he said, "However, they do like to them m the sand, which may explain the story' Goes Without Water So far in the study, Pete has of 105 degrees farenheit for seven shown no ill effects. Under these conditions, the must give off heat by increasing his rate of breathing. In this way, the body termperature can be kept as close to constant as possible. The normal rate of breathing six breaths per minute. Under produced in the experiment, the crease up to 45 to 50 breaths per minute. The ostrich is the largest bird of its kind. It is also one o the fastest runners in the animal kingdom, reportedly able to auain speeds of 4Q miles per hour. Their water requirement, per unit of mass is much less than those of other birds. This is due in part, it is believed, to the fact that the ostrich's almost spherical body affords a minimum vi aeai ausorDing surface llliii is s-1 111 Name Ostrich: eally A; She half years. . of desert animals being studied egg-laying mammals related to tne ostrich, and stands about seven is accounted . for by his neck two eyes the size of oranges except for one strange thing strange thing is that "he" is a Eggs : "weigh about two. and one-half African plains, and often ven do not. "I've never seen it," scratch their necks by rubbing been placed in an environmen days without water, and has bird, which does not perspire for an ostrich is about five or extreme conditions such as. those ostrich's breathing rate will in ; 4,000 Expected In Durham To Greet Humphrey Today Klan To Help Him Celebrate End Of War State Young Democratic Clubs officials said yesterday that more than 4,000 persons are ex pected to converge on Durham today to hear Vice - President Hubert H. Humphrey. Humphrey will address a statewide rally of YDC clubs at 8 tonight in Duke Indoor Sta: dium, and he will serve as prin ciple speaker at tomorrow aft ernoon's centennial observance of the last major surrender of the Civil War at Bennett Place, just outside Durham. Earlier this week, Student Body President Paul Dickson is students to "turn out in large sued a statement urging UNC numbers to greet the Vice-President. . International Relations Said Hinging On Viet Nam NEW YORK (AP) U Thant said yesterday Viet Nam will have a far - ranging effect in the world this year. He asked "every possible effort to facili- . tate a peaceful solution" to the conflict. The United Nations Secretary General, addressing the Amer ican Newspaper Publishers As-. sociation','said: "I believe that the whole trend of international relations in 1965 . . . Will inevitably be affected by developments in Viet Nam and by the ability of all the parties to that agomzmg situation to find, some basis for mutual accommodation, if not for a permanent solution." Thant reiterated that he de sired to "help in any way that may be deemed useful" even though the United Nations "has not so far been involved in at tempts to solve this problem." He said that, apart from the risks of escalation and human itarian considerations involved, the problem "affects the whole atmosphere of international re lations" both within and outside the United Nations . "and the balance of innumerable rela tionships between governments and peoples "The importance of the part which can be played by the press of the world in creating an atmosphere in which solu tions become possible can hard ly be exaggerated, for in the long run there is no substitute for an informed and enlightened public opinion." U Thant spoke at a luncheon at which the ANPA Founda tion's first world press achieve ment award a gold medal lion was presented to Cetin Remzi Yuregir, publisher of the newspaper, Yeni Adana, in' Turkey. Symposium Needs Committee Aides Applications for the chairman ships of five 1966 Carolina Sym posium operating committees are now available at the Gra ham Memorial Information Desk and the Symposium of fice, second floor. YMCA. Interviews for the positions will be held late the week of May 1st, -and sign - up sheets accompany the applications. . Chairmen are needed for the publicity, related discussions, intercollegiate seminar, social and hospitality, and physical ar rangements committees. In urging qualified students to apply for the chairmanships, Symposium Chairman George Butler cited these committee assignments as the most vital" in the over-all Symposium ef fort. The Related Discussions Com mittee is responsible for pre Symposium wTeek seminars and meetings in living units, and co ordinating the classroom visits of. Symposium speakersj The UNC Young Democrats will sponsor a motorcade to the Raleigh - Durham Airport Sat urday afternoon to attend a re ception for Humphrey there. The caravan will form in the Planetarium Parking Lot at 3:30 p.m. Transportation will be pro vided, free of charge, for all persons wishing to participate in the motorcade but not hav ing cars. The slate of events in the Vice - President's honor include the airport reception at 4:30 p.m., a Spring Rally for HHH to be held in Card Gym on the Duke campus at 5:30, and an "all you can eat for $1" hot dog supper at 7:45. . The main address will be giv en by Humphrey at 8 p.m. Following the address, the YDC Spring Rally Dance will be held in the Durham Civic Center. TONIGHT'S FLICK Tonight's Free Flick will be Max Shulman's "Rally 'Round The Flag Boys," starring Paul Newman, and Joanne Woodward. It will be shown at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall auditorium. It concerns a small community selected as an army guided missile base. U Thant noted that the United Nations has been a regular re cipient "of an immense flow of criticism and admonition from all points of the political, ideo logical and geographical com pass." r He upheld the right to criti cize but spoke against . sensa tionalizing of the news. "Ah undue concentration on violence and conflict inevitably creates a heated atmosphere which is unfavorable to reason and conciliation." he said. "We sometimes : see this ten dency at work in the reporting throughout the world on the ac tivities of the United Nations. With almost every crisis, for ex ample, the failure, or even the general collapse, of the United Nations is discussed or fore seen. "The United Nations is pic tured as a protagonist in a kind of global sporting event, which must either be won or lost with in a given time. This makes for dramatic reading, but not for clear understanding." He said such a view ignores the fact that the game con cerned is the endless drama of human history. . "To judge the first 20 years of the world orgamzation realis tically," he said, "it is helpful to speculate oh what would have happened if it had not existed. "Where, for example, would we have been in Kashmir, in the Middle East, in the Congo, in Cyprus, and even in some of the major controversies between the great powers, if the me chanism and the possibilities for negotiation, mediation and face- saving which the United Nations provides had not been avail able? "The special requirements of tnis year's tfceme, 'Mind, Man and Myth, will require a con siderably expanded pre-Sympos ium education program," But ler noted. Establishing and coordinating ine participation of represenia uves from other colleges and Universities in the Svmnosium is the major responsibility of the inter - collegiate Semmar com mittee. "This nrnm-am hat heen ai exciting and vital aspect of past symposium," Butler recalled "and an expanded program is anticipated for next year." The functions of the publici ty, physical arrangements, . and social and hospitality commit tees are more straightforward. i4The cooperation and full ef forts of all committees are es sential for a successful '66 Sym posium," Butler explained. Detailed descriptions of the work of each committee is avail able in the Symposium office Failure To Get NSA Appropriation M cans Delegates By JOHN GREENB ACKER DTH News Editor Failure to comply with Stu dent Government statutes led Student Legislature to strike a $240 appropriation from the 1965 - 66 Student Government budget which provides funds to send four alternates to the Na tional Student Association con ference this summer. Clark Crampton (UP) moved successfully to delete the ap propriation after he proved that all but one of last year's NSA alternates and current NSA Co ordinator Neal Jackson were negligent in failing to submit required reports on the NSA "national conference to the leg islature. ; Crampton cited Student pov ernment statutes which requires alternates to the national NSA congress to . "submit a report to the legislature evaluating the congress." Jackson said yesterday he was "too busy at the time" to submit a report to the legisla ture. A "Disturbing Situation" Calling the failure to submit a report "a ' disturbing situa tion," Crampton said, "We have received no publicity or infor mation on the NSA, and when JJNC-C Adopts Honor Code To Rule Academic Affairs The student body of Charlotte College ; has adopted an honor code to govern tests, papers and Will Produce 'Streetcar9 Director Thomas M. Patter son has announced his cast for the Carolina Playmakers' pro duction of Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize winning drama, "A Streetcar Named Desire," to be presented in the Playmakers Theater May 11 through 16. Amanda Meiggs, assistant in structor in the Department of Dramatic Art from Moyock, will be seen in the leading role of Blanche DuBois, the fantasy ridden southern belle whose failure to adjust to reality leads her to insanity when she comes to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella Kowalski, and her sister's brawling husband. Stan- ley. In developing the lengthy and difficult role of Blanche, Miss Meiggs will have behind her cn tiny experience muiuumg uii- Broadway, network television, and a period, of study with the internationally famous drama i coach, Lee Strasberg. Bill Smith, a drama major from Raleigh, will play Stanley Kowalski, the hard-fisted, re sentful brother - in - law of Blanche, whose animal - like pride serves to destroy the heroine. . Smith, who will play the his torical role of Sir Walter Ra leigh in "The Lost Colony" this summer, appeared on the Play makers' stage earlier this year as the tough Jenkins in "Billy Budd." . - Two Chapel Hill ctudents will fill the remaining principle roles. Laurel Dykstra, a drama major, will be seen as the hero ine's warm, . impulsive sister, Stella Kowalski. Ben Jones, a student in the RTVMP Department, will por tray Blanche's naive, hulking suitor, Mitch, who is unaware of the sordid past of Blanche JJUBois. Stanley's beer-drinking, poker playing buddies, Steve and Gon zales, will be Dlaved bv Fred Cook of Rochester, N. Y., and Ray Bittner of Asheboro, re spectively. Stella's best friend, Eunice, will be portrayed by Pat Er winof Chapel Hill. Other roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire," which depicts tne colorful sweep of French Quarter humanity, will be tak en by Verna Wortham of Greensboro. Sherry Elledge of Marion, Bill Marks of Chapel Hill, Virginia Cornue of Hunt- ersviiis -- Pmymdker the students pay $360 to send alternates to the national con gress, they should get some re sults. "We're damned well entitled to find out what happens up there," he said. "Otherwise, who the hell knows? "I don't see why we don't have the NSA coordinator come up here and explain to this body why these reports weren't sub mitted," he said. Crampton and other student leaders led an unsuccessful at tempt in a referendum last fall to disaffiliate the University from NSA, which has been at tacked across the nation for its ultra-liberal stands on political and social issues. Teddy O'Toole (UP), who served as one of the six alter nates last year, rose to tell the body that he did submit an eight - page report to the NSA coordinator about the congress, but the report ' never reached legislature. "If Neal Jackson hasn't sub mitted it, then I don't know why," he said. O'Toole urged defeat of Crampton's "rather reactionary motion," claiming that to strike the NSA appropriation for alter nates would mean the alternates would never be sent. other academic matters. In a light vote in a campus wide referendum, the measure was adopted by a margin of 174 - 46. --oJust as . with the UNC system students at the newest branch of the consolidated university will be on their honor not to cheat, lie or steal. However, in contrast to the code here, the UNC-C code reads, ". . . you have the re sponsibility, . but not the man datory obligation . . ." to re port other offenders. A spokesman for the Col legian, Charlotte's campus newspaper, told the DTH yes terday that the non - manda tory reporting of violators clause was possibly a result of the recent trouble at the Air Force Academy. The "honor code will not have jurisdiction over contractial agreements between students and the college's administration or in any cases of sexual viola tions. Charlotte College abandoned its old honor code in 1957 as being Unworkable." The student body has been working steadily toward a new code every year since, but un- til - now, had not been able to get a referendum Passed. The hono r sy ultv has not yet indicated ulty has not yet whether exams will continue to be monitored. . 4 n i STORM CLOUDS OVER FETZER Field break for drieF ground. See page four for detail, r.i up after pouring a 10-minute deluge of hail on the UNC-Maryland baseball game. Photo by the packed stands sending students scurrying t Photo by Jock Lautertr May Not He said the alternate delega tion was needed to lobby for legislation and participate in floor debate if necessary. Jim Smith (UP) asked O'Toole why the appropriation couldn't be reinstated at a later date, after the , budget was passed and explanation for the deficiencies offered, by means of a special appropriation bill. "I don't see how that would work," O'Toole said. Jim Brame (SP) later re minded the body that last year's entire NSA appropriation was left out of the budget by mis take, but was reinstated by a special appropriation bill. University Party Floor Lead er George Ingram urged defeat of the Crampton motion and , said, I am sure that future NSA representatives will do their job." j Brame told SL he was in fa vor of Crampton's motion not merely because of the alter nates' failure to comply with the Student Government stat ute, but mainly because he felt alternates at the NSA congress were "unnecessary." He cited several large schools in NSA which don't bother to send alternates at all. Crampton's motion passed by a vote of 18 - 15. Speaker Pro Tem Jim Little (SP), serving as speaker of the body in the absence of . Britt Gordon, ruled all appeals for p ' second vote on the issue out of order. Gordon Attacked In a special address before the body, the Student Party's new floor leader. Don Wilson at tacked speaker Gordon for re fusing to listen to : the recom - mendations of the r party floor leaders jii making SL commit tee assignments. ; "Tonight I must tell you," he said, "that I have vitnessed the most flagrant violation of prece- ' dent I have seen m this body. "Never before in the history of Student Legislature has the speaker made committee ap pointments without consulting the floor leaders of both par Girl Greeks Will Shorten Fall Rush Plans to; shorten the formal fall rushing schedule for cam pus sororities have been ap proved by the Panhellenic Coun cil. Girls going through rush will attend four rounds of scheduled parties instead of the usual five. Tentative dates for fall rush are Sept. 16 through 24. Madeline Gray, president of Panhell, said a shorter rush had been recommended by na tional Panhellenic officers and the past two UNC Panhellenic executive boards. This will help rushees aca demically and will keep the girls from getting tired of rush," she said. Be eiM ties," he said. Wilson said he had made cer tain recommendations to speak er Gordon about the SL com mittee appointments and Gor don had refused to listen. " 'I don't care about prece dent,' " Wilson quoted Gordon as saying. Wilson called for an appeal of the speaker's decision. Hugh Elackwell reminded Wilson that Gordon's decision could not be appealed, as Stu dent Government rules allow the speaker to make appoint ments without having to consult the floor leaders. Speaker Pro Tem Jim Smith (SP) ruled Wilson out of order. Class Of '65 Give Merrill Permanent Post Harrison Merrill was elected permanent president of the class of 1965 during the final night of Senior Week. The other officers, elected by the class on a point bnsis dis tributed from six for president to one for social chairman, are as follows: first vice - presi dent, Bob Spearman (334 votes); second vice - president, Paul Chused (299 votes); treasurer, Jim Light (251 votes); secre taries, Jean Dillin and Kay Hoyle (82 each); and ' social chairman, Roxannc Kalb (132 votes). A nominating committee com- - posed "of the Senior Class cabi net compiled a list' of eigii'cen outstanding seniors to be voted on. Other than the officers, the list included Ned Martin, 1S6 votes: Gene Barrier, 135; Jim Ful wood, 129; Pete Wales, 119; Per ry McCarty, 115; Sylvia Schields, 68; Jane Dallcn, 52; Susan Powell, 51; Sissy Trott, 43; Judy Vinroot, 39; and Louise Menefee, 37. Bob Spearman and Jean Dil lin were elected Mr. and Miss Alumnus and Alumna, respec tively. They represent the stu dents the Senior Class felt were most outstanding, characteris tic, and representative of their class. i The permanent officers, in co operation with the Alumni Asso ciation, plan all class reunions. Their first will probably be in 1970, according to second vice president, Paul Chused. Chused stated that in May a campaign to encourage mem bership in the Alumni Associa tion will be held. "Senior class members can join for a special rate of $1 for the first year entitling them to receive a monthly publication, The Alumni Review, and ten football supplements," he said.

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