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u:; 2 670 fer 1 o -, i atmas Tic South's Largest College Newspaper Vol. 74, Number 70 CHAPEL HILL NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1965 Founded February 23, 1893. eace Meetin Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus ucceedls JT1F wmlu fifJM Editors note Francis P. Church wrote this letter about Santa Claus before the turn of the century. It has been re printed many, many times yet is something that has never grown old. Dear Editor I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in the New York Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? .Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehend ed by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world around him, as mea sured by the intelligence cap able of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as cer tainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childish faith then, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, ex cept in sense and sight. The eternal light with which child hood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! jua. xreaKie Santa's Cards Santa Claus made an urgent call to the DTH office yesterday. He is really worried. He says he can't figure out some of the letters he has been receiving from our community. Here are some of the requests that have Santa confused. Consolidated University President William C. Fri day asked for a new Speaker Ban so he will have something to keep him busy for the next couple of go rc After a year and a half of dullness and peace, Chancellor Paul Sharp would like to return to the con troversial Hiram College. Dean of Men William Long wants 2,000 additional cars on campus so he can come up with another bril liant parking plan. Campus Security Officer Arthur Beaumont would like Morrison College to show some more pornograph ic films so he can "investigate" them. Hickey Asks St. Nick For Win Football coach Jim Hickey wants a schedule that does not include Michigan, Wake Forest, Virginia, Georgia, Notre Dame or Duke. Ray Strong, director of the office of records and registration, would like enough courses to go around. Dean of Women Katherine Carmichael wants to hold monthly supervised panty raids so things don't get out of hand. The KA's would like to ban 'Dixie' and replace the Stars and Bars with Old Glory. The Student Legislature would like something to debate instead of agreeing on everything. Hugh Blackwell wants to see his life-long dream come true a campus radio station. The UNC Marching Band will take anything it can get (Sorry, but I just couldn't resist). The managing editor of the Daily Tar Heel, Pat Stith, would like to congratulate Mr. Ben Day on his wonderous invention. DTH Editor Ernie McCrary wants a recurrence of mono so he can skip exams and catch up on the work he owes since the last time he had the disease. Residents of Alexander would like to thank who ever is responsible for the lead shades over Winston windows. The Chapel Hill merchants asked Santa for a new herd of gullible students to keep their revenues in the deep, deep black. Chapel Hill Police want a case they can solve. A certain member of the Chapel Hill Fire Depart ment wishes someone would get rid of those $!&?)( Christmas decorations. Merry Christmas, Carolina Style or any style. You might as well not believe in fairies. You might as well get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see him coming down, what would tha prove? No body sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they aren't there. Nobody can conceive or ima gine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart a ba by's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever liv ed, could tear apart. Only fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the su pernal beauty and glory be hind. Is it all real? Ah, Vir ginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abid ing. No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. r And Letters 'Groaning Bored' Honor Buck Taylor A jubilant ride on a mule - drawn wagon ended an evening of festivities Tuesday night for the Society for the Preservation of Buck Taylor's Mutton and Shoats. The organization, which describes its ten members as "the Groaning Bored," was form ed recently in an effort "to exonerate the decent and God - fearing name of the Hon orable Buck Taylor." Taylor, a Revolutionary War veteran, was hired in 1795 as the University's first steward. Two Out Students "Look to your left and look to your right," say the orien tation counselors. "One of you won't be here to graduate." Whether the drop - out prob lem at UNC is actually this bad is the subject of an ex tensive study made recently by the Admissions Office and the University Testing Serv ice. Their report, released last Friday, indicates that the 33 per cent fatality rate is no overstatement. The study was made .from the records of the class of 1964, and included sophomore and junior transfers. It indi cates tnat ot the i,42b students enrolling in the fall of 1960, only 859 have graduated. A total of 711 withdrew at some time during the four years, but 144 of these return ed. Although the regular four -year students had almost a 40 per cent drop - out rate, the transfer students had on ly 25 per cent of its 633 stu dents to drop out and fail to return for a degree. Santa's Main Problems-4 Kissing, Beard Pulling Sx BY BOB HARRIS M- DTH Staff Writer S: A UNC journalism stud ent says a "bad memory" 5jS isn't the only problem of jSx playing part - time Santa. SS Steve (Santa with ;S the failing memory) Sx Lail first made the news SSwhen he asked a little girl SS where she got her all - day sucker. She quickly remind iSxed him that he had given SSit to her at another store. Sx "The main problem I jxShave," Lail said, "Is mak SS ing the kids believe I'm ;Si;:Santa." S: "To make sure," Lail S: added, "the kids want to punch me in the stomach -Siand pull my beard. Some SSeven want to kiss me." S: With his 230 pounds, "jol SS a doesn't have SS any problems on the first SK count. He also has learned $S: to hold his beard to keep SS the kids from pulling it off, Si but he hasn't surmounted S: the kissing problem. SS In one kissing incident a S? fast little boy spit in Lail's S: face after getting fuzz from SSthe beard in his mouth. According to the Mutton and Shoats So ciety, he was "viciously and unfairly" attack ed for the quality of the food he served. As a tribute to Taylor, the Society resol ved to meet several times a year and "par take of the most delectable potations and vit tles to be found in the region." Preparations for the formal Christmas banquet began at the Goody Shop at 1 p.m. Thursday. This was followed by a cocktail party at the home of Dr. Stephen Baxter. Of Every Three Don't Graduate The University has no rec ord on what these students do after leaving Chapel Hill, but year so that they may meet ed in other schools to gradu ate. According to D. W. Camp bell of the Testing Service, 42.6 per cent of the students leaving Carolina do so because of ineligibility, and another 12.9 leave because of border line grades. Other reasons for withdraw als are marriage, health, fi nances, lack of interest, or suspension. Only 1.5 per cent of those leaving were suspen ded. Correlation was found be tween the high school record and SAT scores of the stud ent and the likelihood of drop ping out. Richard Cashwell of the Of fice of Admissions says that those students with a poor re cord and a high SAT were more likely to leave than a student with a good high school record and low SAT. "I've held about 40 dif- Sx: ferent jobs," Lail said. iSS "And this is the hardest one SS I've had." XS: His first problem this S: year was a too - tight uni- SS form. He had to sew a piece :: of cloth onto the belt to make it fit. SS Lail said the worst Santa :Si job he had was at a Lenoir $:: Rhyne faculty party. SS "That was the hardest time I've ever had making : kids believe I was Santa SS Claus. vxj: "Part of the kids knew ji?;':":': me, part of them were Jap anese and didn't believe in -$ Santa Claus, and part of them were German and be- Si lieved in Kris Kringle. They S didn't know who I was." jSiji One of the Lenoir Rhyne : youngsters even wrote him Sx a thank you note for being SS Santa Claus. : One night club offered him SS a Santa job last year pass- : ing out fifths of liquor. "I Sx don't know why I didn't take 'S it," Lail added. x Lail came by his job hon- SS estly. His father also used SS to play Santa. : DTH Photo by Ernest Robl. The size of the city the stu dent comes from has little to do vith his success in col lege. There is some connec tion between the type of sec ondary school a student gra duates from (public schools have fewer drop outs than do private schools), but this pro bably fluctuates from year to year. A student's rank in his gra duating high school class seems to be a good indica tion of his college potential. Charles Bernard, Director of Admissions, stated that even top rated students have be come ineligible from time to time, and that students with the least acceptable potential have become good students with high grades. Bernard teels that the stu dent here wiU get no more than he works for. Some men come here and simply fail to make the adjustment to col lege life. This is especially true of those who "coasted" through high school and ex pect college to be the same. The Admissions Office is doing what it can to prevent additional drop - outs by try ing to accept only those peo ple show good scholastic pro mise. This has been success ful to an extent because the withdrawal rate has been de creasing continually since 1958. But even this presents its problems because the tight housing situation will not permit so many freshmen to be enrolled in the future. The present freshman class con sists of 2,305 General College, Nursing, and Dental Hygiene students. Although applications for ad mission are coming into Ber nard's office about 30 per cent faster than last year, only 2, 300 can be accepted. In order to give next year's freshmen a better chance to do well on placement tests, the Admissions Office is plan ning to hold preregistration again this summer. The pro gram had been temporarily dropped. Dean of Men William Long is also planning an orienta tion program for parents next year so that they may emeet the administration and faculty and get to know more about the University. So even though the per cent of students dropping out is decreasing, only those stud ents with desire and potential are likely to get the sheep skin. Space Capsules Fly Closer Than Ten Feet Apart SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON (AP) Four excited U. S. astronauts scored Am erica's greatest space success Wednesday with a historic rendezvous in their two spaceships. Then they set out on a happy formation flight 185 miles above the earth. The six-hour space hunt ended dramatically with two teams of astronauts only six to 10 feet apart after Gemini 7 had flown more than 4 million miles and Gemini 6, the hunter, more than 106,000. They nudged so close that Gemini 6 Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra could see the ll-?.ay beard growth of the second craft's commander, Astraonaut Frank Borman. Schirra and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford masterfully flew up for visit with Bor man and James A. Lovell Jr., who had not seen an Earthling since they embarked on a 14-day voyage Dec. 4. Goodykoontz Is With Job Corps By DAVID ROTHMAN DTH Staff Writer Prof. William F. Goody koontz, object of last year's "publish or perish" controver sy, says politics interfered with his search for employ ment after the expiration of his contract here. Goodykoontz is now with the Job Corps at Ft. Custer, Mich., near Battle Creek. Interviewed by telephone, he said he was pressured to leave the North Carolina Advance ment School "after my super iors there talked with Dr. George Harper." Harper heads the UNC Eng lish Department, whose al leged "publish or perish" pol icy led to the formation of "Students for Teachers." SFT protested the termination tf the former professor's con tract. Harper denies being contact ed "by any of the schools at which Mr. Goodykoontz was seeking employment." Goodykoontz claims he has enjoyed "more academic free dom" in the Poverty Program than he did at this university. "I'm thinking in terms of the rights of students and teachers to freedom of expres sion and freedom to use un conventional techniques," he said. Would he return to UNC if invited back? "I like Chapel Hill," Goody koontz said. "I like the Uni versity. But I think it was a much greater school under Dr. Frank Graham (former Consolidated University pres ident) than it is now. "Both the Chancellor and the President are now more conservative," he continued. "Obviously, I probably won't be invited back," Goodykoontz said, "but if I were, I'd want freedom to teach freely." Would he participate in the "publish or perish" contro- APO Celebrates Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, celebrates its 40th anniversary today. The UNC chapter, with 21 brothers and nine pledges, is one of 387 in the nation. At present APO is engaged in two activities, the Ugliest Man On Campus contest and the Traffic Safety Program. Past undertakings include collecting money for the Com- munity Chest and sponsoring the Book Ex The fraternity is open to anyone on campus. The fraternity was organized at a Fayette College. UN's Rho chapter was the 17th or ganized in the country. It was formed in 1933. Pan Hellenic Council The Pan Hellenic Council has planned four meetings to be held in January in girls' residence halls which will acquaint freshmen women with the Carolina sorority sys tem. Slides of the different so rority houses will be shown, and Council members will describe and answer questions about sorority life. Every freshman woman is invited to attend the meeting in her residence halL Town versy if he could relive last spring? "Yes. We set out to raise important questions about teaching and its role in the university. "In the controversy that de veloped, the questions and principles involved somehow got buried in the discussion of personalities and other things." Goodykoontz left UNC after finishing the first summer school term. He sought employment in New York and elsewhere be fore being hired by the Ad vancement School, about which he said: "My superiors warned me there would be controversy that might wreck the school if I stayed' on. This Was the last thing I wanted to do, so I withdrew voluntarily. "But if I hadn't withdrawn, I don't know what might have happened." fee claimed his job oppor tunities in New York had also been jeopardized by pressure. "Kingsbo rough Community College in Brooklyn was one of the places I thought I was going, but things fell through because of politics." Goodykoontz insisted he is not angry. "I'm not accusing anybody of anything." He praised the work being done at the Advancement School, speaking highly of his superiors there. Goodykoontz claimed that "a number of UNC faculty members, including some in the English Department," told him privately they "were sympathetic to my position." "I'm basically a teacher," he said. "I'd rather be teach ing than doing anything else,v but I'd like to teach at a school where scholarship would not be measured in terms of publication for pub lication's sake." women may attend any of the meetings. Coeds interested in spring rush, which will begin in the second week in Februrary, should sign up by Jan. 11 in the Dean of Women's office. The meetings and their re spective dates are: Spencer, Jan. 3 at 6:45 p.m.; Cobb, Jan. 4 at 6:45 p.m.: Nurses, Jan. 5 at 6:45 p.m.; Smith, Jan. 6 at 6:45 p.m. Morrison Elections Byron McCoy is the new governor of Morrison College after running unopposed in the Morrison dorm elections. Dick Levy defeated Joe Saunders for academic lieu tenant governor. John Ellis became the new social lieu tenant governor by beating tr 1 Gary Boggs defeated Ralph Levering for executive secre- tary. Richard wngnt, running unopposed, became the new treasurer. Sixty per cent of the 1,021 students in Morrison turned out for the election. Play-makers Perform The Carolina Playmakers Student Workshop win present Schirra said the space chase and rendezvous was so easy "We would have no trouble docking." An actual link-up or docking is one vital ma neuver the United States has yet to accomplish, but neither spacecraft was equipped for it on this flight. "You're up close," Schirra told Lovell early in the forma tion flight. "I can see your lips mov ing," Lovell replied. "I'm chewing gum," said Schirra, a 42-year-old Navy Captain and oldest of the na tion's active astronauts. "Oh, okay," Lovell said. "Can you see Frank's beard, Wally?" "I can see yours better right now," came the reply. First word the maneuver was successful came from Stafford. He calmly reported to anxious ground controllers over a noisy communications channel shortly after 2:30 p.m. "We're about 120 feet apart and sitting." The meeting occurred high over the Pacific Ocean during Gemini 6' s fourth orbit of the Earth and Gemni Ts 165th. A busy worldwide tracking network, for the first time in history keeping tabs on two spacecrafts at once came to a virtual standstill during the fi nal breath-taking minutes of the momentous and dramtic meeting in space. "This is the waiting time," mission control said as the fi nal, tricky maneuvers to bring them only feet apart started. "It's all up to them." Even though they were trav eling 17,500 miles an hour over a 103,000 mile chase course, Schirra cautiously maneuvered the spacecraft's relative speed only a few feet a second nose-to-nose with Gemini 7 not risking a collision. "We did it," someone said over the command channels. Thus, the United States claimed title to man's greatest space adventure, one that rep resents another giant step in its race to put men on the moon by 1970. At the moment of blastoff, these elated words were heard from Gemini 6: "I should say. This is a real one." Birthday The Second Shepberd'i Play today at 3:30 in front of the Davie Poplar and at 4:30 in the court between Saunders Hall and Murphey Hall. The production will be giv en on a specially constructed copy of an Old English Pa geant Wagon. These traveling wagons were used to trans port shows from town to town during the Middle Ages. The Second Shepherd's Play is a popular miracle play tak en from the Middle Ages. It tells the story of how the first Christmas Eve affected a hu morous group of poor shep herds who were watching their flock of sheep. The main characters in the production will be played by Bob Lucas, Pat Ervin, Mike Clark, Pat Hurley and Jim Chesnutt. Junior Llass Officers Junior class officers, com- mittee chairmen, and commit- tee members will meet to dis cuss plans for the year at 4 in 101 Davie. Any juniors who have not been interviewed and would like to work on the finance, publicity or social committee should contact Mel Wright at 968-9215 or Bill Nucciarone at 942-5640.
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