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To Be Honored . Support Needed For Educational TV Station Nite of Sin Planned Channel 11 Lacks In Roman Fashion Sufficient Funds By CAROLE SOFRONAS Nite of Sin, an annual Student Union presentation is scheduled for March 14 A plea for financial support has been mouth Teachers, Rev. Paul McHugh and 15 in the Memorial Union Building. made by the New Hampshire Educa if the Department of Education of the tional Broadcasting Council to provide Department of Education of the Catho From 8 :00 to 11:45 p.rn., the building New Hampshire with an educational lic Diocese of New Hampshire, and will echo the spirit of Latin days gone television station. Contributions of Ralph Turner of Emerson School for by, in compliance with this year’s theme: $250,000 already have been offered by Boys, executive committee. Roman Rumpus. trust funds and individuals, but an ad Memorial Union Offers Whole Floor Co-chairmen of the event, Dick Hamp- ditional $75,000 is needed. The major gift in establishing the son and Mike Colbert have announced The Council, made up of 21 educa station is a $100,000' offer from the tional institutions and agencies, will fund for Adult Education, provided that that plans for Nite of Sin — ’58 insure advise and cooperate in the operation the people of New Hampshire match its being better than ever. There will of Channel 11 which the Federal Com this amount on a 2 to 1 basis by con PROF. L. V. TIRRELL be the customary games of chance, played munications Commission has allocated tributing $200,000'. Of the matching with provided play money and operated to New Hampshire for non-commercial, funds, about $150,000 already is avail by members of the faculty and admin educational use. The station will be able. Studio facilities — a whole floor istration. Toga-clad members of the Stu licensed to the University and studios of the new Memorial Union building — dent Union will be assisting. The games, will be located at Durham. are valued at $100,000. Former Gov. To Cooperate with Channel 2 Charles M. Dale of Portsmouth has Tirrell Honored By which will be played in the Durham, The station will have a radius cover made a gift of a transmitter site and Coos and Cheshire rooms, will include ing 78-80% of New Hampshire’s popu building atop Saddleback mountain in roulette, dice, chuck-a-luck and various lation. Programs, both live and on film, Northwood valued at $50,000. card games. will include lectures, concerts, drama, The Council said it must raise $50,- UNH Riding Club The Strafford Room will be trans opera, a variety of adult education 000 by April 15 to match the Fund for formed into a Roman Colesseum, John courses, and children’s programs. The Adult Education gift. Another $25,000 On May 11, 1958, this University has earned him a position of respect by new station will be tied in with Bos will also be needed to equip the station Haslam, the decorations chairman has ton’s channel 2 which is an educational for operation. , will act as host to horse breeders and horsemen everywhere. announced. Two stage shows a night will The Morgan horses exhibited at the station cooperating with us to allow Gifts Promised exhibitors from all over New England. be presented there at approximately 9 :00 An enterprising group of students col show this year will be competing for us to rebroadcast everythin<? they do, Several public-spirited trust funds in lectively known as the University’s the L. V. Tirrell Challenge Trophy in and 11:00 p.m. The show, written and so we have available five hours of the New Hampshire have expressed inter Riding Club has undertaken the spon the Morgan Championship Class. The directed by Joan Burnis and Jan King, best T. V. programs. We will be a est in making gifts to the station. The sorship of a horse show affiliated with tfophy, which was donated by the will feature the University’s Dance Club member of the Radio T. V. Center in Council is looking to these trusts and the New England Horseman’s Council members o f the Riding Club, is for the in a traditional slave dance and an origi Ann Arbor, Michigan, also. interested individuals to share in the Council officers planning the station financial help needed. and the New Hampshire Horse and first time part of the competition. Mr. nal comedy concerning Nero. This latter Trail Association. Frederick O. Davis, President of the include J. Blair Watson, Dartmouth, Without the substantial out-of-state event will headline Bebe Wright and chairman; Rev. Gregory Kelleher, St. contribution from the Fund for Adult This year, the students of the Riding National Morgan Horse Club Inc., Lanny Ray in acting and singing roles. Club are dedicating their efforts to will be on hand for the presentation. Anselm’s, vice chairman; John F. Reed, Education, the Council said, it is highly Others in the cast are: Lee Rente, Dick Professor L. V. Tirrell, Chairman of The Show Management is also hon UNH, secretary; Earl Little, State unlikely that money can be raised to the Department of Animal Science at oring Mr. and Mrs. W. Lyman Orcutt Kenyon, Stephen and Stanton Fitts, Don Department of Education, treasurer put the station on the air. In that event, the University. Professor Tirrell is of Orcland Farms, West Newbury, Lawrence and George Bussell. and President Harold Hyde of Ply- (continued on page 5) recognized throughout the United Massachusetts. For many years they Admission is free and refreshments States as an outstanding authorityi on have been engaged in a Morgan Horse will be provided. Nite of Sin is one of breeding program. Mrs. Lyman “Ruth’ light horses. His active support' of the Student Union’s major yearly under Morgan horses, both as a member of Orcutt, an alumni of the University, CA Sponsors Lecturer the New England Morgan Horse Clas has exhibited at many University takings. It promises an evening of good sification Committee and as a Judge shows, aided the University breeding entertainment for all, and so the Student at the National Morgan Horse Show, (continued on page 8) Union expects complete campus support. On Racial Segregation Bayard Rustin, an internationally. ac New York and the University at Wilber- claimed authority on the use of non foree, Ohio. "Life Must Be Free!" Says Sinnott violent techniques in human relations, will During World War II, he spent over be at the University March 19 to 21. As a year in prison for refusing to fight a Quaker and a Negro, he is dedicated on religious grounds. Later in 1949, Mr. to inter-racial and inter-religious har Rustin was made part of a prison chain To Capacity Convocation Gathering mony. gang for refusing to obey Jim Crow Sponsored by Christian Association, laws, in North Carolina. His report, By DICK SHEA the University’s Protestant religious or “Twenty-Two Days on the Chain Gang” ganization, Mr. Rustin’s visit will also resulted in some prison reforms in that “Life must be free!” told a near capacity crowd at New Hamp most necessary elements in our free way include a talk in Murkland Auditorium, state. This is what Dr. Edmund E. Sinnott, shire Hall, Thursday afternoon, March of life are freedom, progress, and in Wednesday, March 19, at 7:45 p.m. This In 1948 and 1949, Mr. Rustin made a the University’s first lecturer in residence, 6, from 1 to 2 o’clock. dividuality. talk will be sponsored by the Foreign five-month tour of Europe, the Near Dr. Sinnott held his audience in close The need for freedom was the first Students’ Clut East and Asia. In India, he interviewed captivity as he explained why, biogically, principle that the speaker stressed as be and will deal Nehru. In 1952, another trip was taken man needs to live democratically. It is ing biologically necessary in man. Every with “ Racial which included Europe, the Gold Coast, Jerry Culver Killed; probably a safe assumption that a good human being is different . Human Segregation” . Nigeria and French West Africa. Nkru- percentage of the listeners came at least diversi is the basis of democracy. Mr. Rustir mah, now prime minister of Ghana, spent Brother Injured partly out of curiosity — to find out Dictatorship would be good if we were may also be considerable time with him. just how Dr. Sinnott could tie a physical all alike, but since we aren’t, democracy asked to speak Since 1953, Mr. Rustin has been Execu tive Secretary of the War Registers DURHAM, March 11 science with a social one. is best. informally b y Biological problems, said Dr. Sinnott, League. Since 1956, he has been associ “No species with such stubborn inborn th e In terna- At approximately 10:10 p.m. on Tues are among life’s most important ones. ated with Dr. Martin Luther King and characteristics as ours,” stated Dr. Sin tional R e 1 a - day, March 11, Jerome T. Culver, 21 The modern generation must be based on other leaders of the Montgomery, Ala nott, “ will ever rest contentedly in bonds.” tions Club and South Calumet Ave., Hastings-on-Hud- scientific fact rather than passion, emo some history bama bus boycott and in the work of the son, N. Y. was killed instantly at the tion, or intuition. The second principle that the Lec and sociology Southern Christian Leadership Confer Durham station. With him at the time At the turn of the century democracy turer in Residence mentioned was “pro classes .