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By STAN HUBBARD
Special To Tfie Daily Tar Uttl
"TThat surprised me most
about living in the United
States is the fact that I haven't
been surprised about
Americans," mused Phillip
Chan, a junior physics major
from Hong Kong. He was com
menting on living in the Carr
Dorm International
Center (ISC).
Student
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Of Tremendous Effort
By STAN HUBBARD
Special To The Dotty Tar Heel
"The International' Student
Center we now have at
Carolina is the culmination of
tremendous work by the
student body, the Chapel Hill
community and the
University," according to ISC
chairman Steve Mueller.
The need for such a center
was recognized during the
adinistration of Frank Porter
Graham in the 1330's. Since
then, the members of the
YMCA and student
government have kept the idea
alive and have worked to make
the plans a reality.
"Right now, I am the last in
a long line of men like Jim
Medford and his predecessors
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said Mueller.
He said the purpose of the
residence center is to combine
the foreign students with
Americans who want to help
the visitors "meet Carolina
through personal contacts."
Through the center, the 32
foreign students meet 3 2
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ISC Charman Steve Mueller
. . . program has been testing ground.
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which you have received for the past week or so.
Our former Subscription Manager left school at
Thanksgiving, having given us only short prior notice.
Due to the changeover from the old manager to our pres
ent manager, there was a period of about a week when
few if any papers were mailed to subscribers.
Vc arc sorry for the inconvenience, but the situation
is once again normal and papers will be sent out regularly
lI expected to be shocked at the way people
He was expecting to be
"very shocked at the way peo
ple live over here" so it was a
real surprise for him to find
that Americans are "so broad
minded." Chan said he has found
American girls "much more
liberal" than Oriental girls but
he feels that the system of
women's rules at Carolina is
"ridiculous."
Americans on a 1-to-l basis,
not through a "meaningless
mass encounter."
Mueller cited the
International Student Board as
the "key force in getting the
center." They won the ISC an
appropriation of $1,000 for
administrative costs. This
money covers the costs of the
seminars, the ISC newsletter
and all correspondance abroad
or in the States.
Without the money for these
functions, Mueller said the
center would be impossible.
The Administration invested
$10,000 in the renovation and
redecoration of the building.
These changes were necessary
to make the dorm usable for
Physical Improvements cut the
downstairs area into needed
office space, small study
rooms and a social room.
The Chapel Hill community
has cooperated by donating
equipment for a kitchenette in
the center. Mueller said
someone gave a clothes washer
and dryer to the center "just
this past week."
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With a gift-giver's loan
from First Union National.
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As one of the 32 foreign
students in the ISC, Chan said
he has enjoyed all of the
center's fall activities and has
been most impressed with the
"liberalism" of the students
here.
Not all of the foreign
students, however, were so
overwhelmed with the "liberal
spirit" at UXC.
Horst Mueller, a graduate
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He feels that the center's
future is "growing brighter."
The University estimates there
will be 500 foreign students
here by 1970 and with that
increase will have to come an
expansion of facilities.
This program has been a
"testing ground" to see if the
students, administration and
community are willing to
support such an organization.
The response has been
"reassuring," according 1 0
Mueller. Over 73 students
interviewed for committee
positions last spring.
Though the interesf seems to
be here,the problems Mueller
anticipates with growth are
"tremendous."
Youmt Gives 'Slice Of Life'9
In First Book 'Wolf M Door'
By DIANE ELLIS
Special To The Daily Tar Beel
"Wolf at the Door" by John
Yount, is a remarkable first
novel. It is the strong, exciting
story of a man who must fight
an agonizing personal battle
against hopelessness, in
decision and loneliness. The
reader experiences the joy and
pain of the hero's decisions;
me book is, as it were, a slice
of life.
Thomas Rapidan is a twenty-one-year-old
failure. His mar
riage of a year is headed for
disaster, his work at a middle
South university is in
shambles, and his reasons for
living are non-existent. His on
ly advantage is the fact that he
recognizes how- flat and stale
his life has become.
When he finally decides to
commit suicide, his sense , of
relief ( "to choose death he felt
powerful and free. . . ") is
short-lived; he cannot decide
when to act nor can he stand to
be alone long enough to act.
After an agonizing dinner with
his parasitic wife who "will do
anything, anything, to make
you love me," he puts her on
board a plain for her mother's.
In the remainder of the book
he gets himself beaten up in a
saloon, buys a vicious-looking
stuffed wolf to keep him com
pany in bis apartment ("it's
the son of a bitch who's been
chasing me all my life") and
takes up with a none-too-sophisticated
waitress, Dixie,
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student in English from
Germany, feels that the stu
dent body is "rather con
fomistic or provential" when
compared to his home school
in Hamburg.
The basic difference is that
"this school is so campus
centered " according to Muel
ler. "All of the activities dating,
eating, sleeping and almost all
fademte
'We have to deal with
problems of passports, wives,
dependents and transportation
of the foreign students," the
chairman noted. "It takes an
awful lot of paperwork and
long-range planning to keep a
center of this nature
running."
He said all of the residents
are working together "very
well" and the spirit of the ISC
is "just amazing."
The 30-year old dream has
finally become a reality. The
students, South Building and
the town have cooperated to
make it work.
The foundation has been laid
and the
good.
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who may be able to save him
from himself.
Several scenes in the book
are
written with mastery
the day as a small boy when he
got picked up by his hair by
his father . . . the barroom
brawh . . the bedroom figlit
with Dixie "what taks him to !
the extreme depths of his
helL . . the final, litany-like i
plea for forgiveness. The
writing is powerful. Yount tells
his story in a swift-paced, non
nonsense style that leaves no
room for affectations.
Yount's characters express
thoughts that the reader, until
he sees them in print before
him, will be sure no one but
himself has ever thought about
before. There are the theology
students at the University who
"discussed God and youth
groups over cups of coffee,
with their hair too carefully
combed, their shoes too shiny,
and almost always with a case
of acne." There's the country
store that Tom went to as a
boy with the "cool, watery,
cankered smell of the cooler
where the soda pop was kept."
There's the polite, un
comfortable, slightly em
barrassed reception by his
parents when he returns from
the army as an adult.
The author opens , Tom's
mind to the reader as skillfully
as if tie were a surgeon, letting
the' reader pick at it. analyze
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entertabnent are right here
on campus, while in Hamhsrg
an the student did cn campus
was go to classes."
Are our girls liberal?
"Not in the German sense!
Carolina girls think they are
liberal because they compare
themselves to their mothers
"I don't like skirts way down
at their kneesthere aren't
enough miniskirts around."
Tall and blond-haired,
Mueller grinned as he admitted
Carolina had "the jump" on
his home school in one
area food. "The food at Ham
burg was horrible I think it is
quite adequate here."
Amrnt Nakhre, a graduate
student in political science
from India, said he was "very
shocked" to find southern
students so "alive" and
"concerned with international
affairs."
"I was warned," he con
tinued, "that all of the
southerners would be very
backward and lack concern for
international problems like the
war in Vietnam."
He said he has found "just
the opposite" to be true. "Most
of the students seem to have at
least some knowledge of world
politics and nearly everyone
seems to have something to
say about Vietnam."
- Nakhre said Carolina "en
joys a very good reputation" in
his part of the world and it
"lives up to that reputation
welL"
it, and slowly and painfully
understand it. He leaves the
final verdict to the reader, and
gives una vaiuauie msigms in-
to the mind of a man who
dares to challenge the modern
concepts of love and truth;
who dares to question what is
never openly questioned.
Yount presents his char
acters to the reader and.
to each other skillfully. To the
other characters, Tom is an in
r tellectual, insensitive snob who
I neither loves nor cares for
f anyone but himself. The reader
begins to realize, however, that
Tom is the only one who really
feels things deeply or loves
fervently. His "tragic flaw" 13
bis sensitivity and intelligence;
he "forever dreamed his
dreams and was not ready for
the world." The reader will
wonder, however, if the world
is ready for Tom.
The symbolism in "Wolf at
the Door" is the tragic story of:
a character who loves the;
world more than the world can',
love him, who is not attuned to)
society's criteria of happinessy
who wants desperately to be
free but who cannot stand
alone, who must challenge
emotional and" intellectual con
cepts but who can find no one
who will challenge them with
him. Yount is a masterful
writer. His use of intriguing
symbolism, his ability to probe
into the very soul of his
characters, and the confused,
uneasy emotions he creates
will make the novel a very
personal one for each of its
readers.
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"I have not been disap- everyone worked together in a sociology, feels the most.
pointed with anything I have
seen."
The American students seem
to hve just as much pride in
the ISC as the foreign students.
Most of the 32 "hosts" are ac
tive in the seminars, mixers,
projects and, most important,
the informal discussions that
foster understanding and
friendship. -
Roger Efird, a junior from
Denton, N.C., said his con
tribution to the ISC is as a
"typical ignorant Americans."
He registered last spring to
live in the center without
knowing what to expect. He
liked me "adventure" and has
found that he "stumbled on a
real bargain."
His most rewarding ex
perience came with making
' the "Keep the Faith, Baby"
banner for an early football
game.
Efird said "nearly all" of the
residents participated and
Campus
SUNDAY
There will be a SP
Meeting
tonight at 7:30 in
ill
Murphey.
The Toronto Exchange will
hold a brief meeting in the
Grail Room at 5:30. Supper
will follow.
College Life will meet tonight
in the "Alderman Dorm Lob
by. There will be a meeting of the
Executive Council of the UP
tonight at 6:30 in the
Woodhouse Room of GM.
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"fantastic spirit of in-
ternationalism."
That was only one example
of the center's spirit They
rallied to win a color TV after
the old one was stolen last
summer. Their fall picnic,
seminars and informal parties
have all been "tremendous
successes."
Phil Busby, a New York
sophomore, has found the in
tramural activities another
source of dorm unity.
He proudly noted that the
residents were forming an
"indestructable" soccer team
after winning the intramural
track events.
"All the guys take part in
the program," Busby said.
Some play table tennis and
chess, others play badminton
or soccer "all together, we
have quite an organization."
Frank Muench, a
foreigner" from California
who is doing graduate study in
Student Religious liberals
will meet tonight at 7 in
Roland Parker UH .
The Westminister Fellowship
will have an Advent Bible
study entitled "How in the
Hell Do We Celebrate
Christmas in 1967," led by
The Rev. M. Buie Seawell, at
the Presbyterian Student
Center at 6. Fellowship at
5:30.
Hillel will sponsor a pre
Chanukah "Macca-Be-In" to
day from 3:30 until at
the
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beneficial part of tae center is
the "incidental learning."
He said the students are''-;
"having fun" and "learning V:
about people" at the sains .
time.
We have many informal
bull sessions' where the floor
is open to just about;
anythingoften we get into"
some pretty big questions."
According to the residents,-
the ISC has all of the problems ::
of any other dorm they just ;-:
have the problems "to a lesser
degree."
Hie most difficult question
that has come from the aging s
ivy-covered building probably
doesn't concern the customs cf ;?
some foreign country cr a dif-:
ference in political thought :
Perhaps it is, rather, who
has benefitted most from liv-r
ing there the visitors or their
hosts.
It is. a tough one to
decide just ask them.
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tertainment by Jock and
'Maggie and any amateurs
bringing instruments.
Gamma Beta Phi will hold in
itiation Monday, Dec 4, at 6
p.m. in Chase Cafeteria. Old
members should bring $2.50
indues. '
Junior class dona interviews
Monday in Roland Parker 3
from 3-5 p.m. include Mor
rison, Ehringhaus, Connor,
J 0 y n e r , W i n s ton and
Craige.
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