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' Nationally Ranked 'Cats Meet St. Joe Tomorrow (See Page Three) ▼ The News and Editorial Voice of Davidson College VOL Ml DAVIDSON COLLEGE. DAVIDSON. N. C. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1963 NUMBER THIRTEEN Council Overhauls Election Methods Gabriel Is Candidates May Make it Eh Ir^i Phi Bete Statement Of Platform Lecturer "Every candidate shall be al- meeting will include a series of since registration must be in lowed a written statement on addresses, panel discussions and by Doc. 20. He added that the Ralph Gabriel, an authority one legal size sheet of paper intensive seminars on specific Student Council would pay half on the American way of life, aspects of the civil rights move- of the $20 registration and no more than 200 copies, fee for will speak on "The Democratic ment in America. each delegate from Davidson. Prospect in the L'.S." to the with costs defrayed by theElec- Spratt mentioned the time of The next meeting of th" student body at assembly. Tue- tions Committee, to state his the conference coincided with Student Council should confirm day. Dec 10 He appears as a platform in a fair and factual Midwinters Weekend, but said the proposed election changes. visiting Phi Beta Kappa lectur-i he hoped that anyone wishing year manner." to Resolutions for the new ex. attend the conference would include some definite action for — This was the text of a motion drop by to see him by Dec. 14, NSA. THE NEW LOOK of the Sfodent Store Moved into its room. Latt year the college allocated torn* $100,000 for con- Gabriel.SterhnR Professor of , now location in the recently completed wing of the College struction of thenew wing.Other Student Store facilities, under History' and Fellow of Trumbull made in the Student Council Union, the Student Store is open for business. The move was the direction of Joe Burdette, will include five pool tables, a College. Emeritus, at Yale Uni- meeting Tuesday night by rep- made during the Thanksgiving holidays. The previous location billiardtable and ping-pong tables. (Staff Photo by Smith) versity and presently professor resentative Will Jackson and will be transformed into dining area, enlarging the present of American civilization at passed unanimously as an elec- Midwinters Plans Change; American University in Wash-! tion change in student body ington. D. C. will speak also in elections. Hodson Hall at 8:15 p.m.. Dec] ' 9, reviewing the American so- Other discussion of proposedMoney Saved For Frolics ciety in entitled "Re- Ralph a lecture election changes centered on a' Publisher McGill ligion and Secularism in Mid- "We're not going to be able to have the big-name TwentiethCentury America." proposal which would automati- band and large dance as planned for Midwinters, cally carry over to Student but we Holding degrees from Yale. Council elections those who will spend the money on Spring Frolics," stated IFC ICambridge, and Bucknell uni wore defeated in the Freshman j president Haynes Kelly after the weekly Interfraternity Reynolds !versifies and from Williams Advisor election. It was deleted Council meeting Tuesday night. Next Lecturer College, dabriel currently changes is a from a list of by an Kelly added that most of the mas parties be held Thurs- Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, will speak as KeynoldsLecturer in Hodson Hall at 8 p.m. member of the U.S. National 11-2 vote of the council. will Commission for the United Na- "big names" that have been day night, Dec. 12. The boys Jan. 8 and in chapeithe following morning. considered have touring tions Educational. | Election of cheerleaders quit and girls, ranging in age from McGill received the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his editorials on racial hatred. He serves as director of the Scientific and winter, and Cultural Organization (INKS and the head cheerleader fell for the suitable about 6 to 12 yearsold, will eat Fund for the Advancement of Education. ! in spotlight in- places with enough capacity to fraternity CO) and is president of the the of council supper at the houses, Tenn., integration pub has object bjwe Born in Soddy, McGill in 1961. ful of Atlanta's Gill been the of much American Studies Association. vestigation. President John Idance for the whole stud- and then will receive gifts at a!tencle:l Vanderbilt University Having served as editor lie schools. hatred in the South and has of- He is the author of several Spratt recommended that the ent body are unavailable. the parties held at the houses. upon his graduation from the since 1942, McGill became As a result of his work. Me tea basMM a campaign issue in procedure be revised after a where Santa Claus will visit McCal!:e School. After .serving publisher of the Constitution qgta political elections. meeting of the council and Kelly also indicated there Each fraternity will entertain willprobal>l> be a concert unk in the Marine Corps for two in 1960. He had been with the the head cheerleader. mx children. ■ad either March 7 or 14 years, he returned to Vander- Atlanta paper since 1928 after I years. leaving Spratt also announced the The winner of the blooddrive bilt for three more He his six-year job as ! As for the immediate future, received an LLT) from the Uni- sports editor of the Morrell Receives SitoikI American Revolution competition, being held next Nashville will be held Bryn plans were discussed for the an- Monday Tuesday, versity of Miami after he had (Tenn.) Banner. In addition, Conference at and Dec. 9 and colleges on nual Christmas party for the and 10. receive plaque, won the Roscwald fellowship McGill has contributed a num- ActuarialGrant Mawr Haverford children of will a 7-9. Barium Springs year for European travel in 1937. An ber of to national the weekend of Feb. News wonlast by the Sigma Nus. articles of to Orphanage and the interfrater- Drill will be granted honorary doctorate was award- magazines and writes a na- Clark Morrell. Jr.. a junior the conference comes the cuts as through the nity blood drive competition. usual by ROTC department ed him by Harvard University- tionally syndicated column. from Belhesda. Md has been StudentCouncil Na- the awarded a $500 actuarial schol- tional Student Association. The The Barium Springs Christ- to cadets donating blood. Under MaOitii direction, the arship by the Prudential Insur- Constitution has beenone of the ance Co. DeepSotrth's clearest advocates of moderationin racialmatters, Morrell qualified for the and one of the most consistent scholarship following a summer Author Has Separate Peace champions of compliance with of actuarial employment, and Federal integration rulings His was one of only 16 students in writing proved influential in RALPH McGILL the United States and Canada bringing about the recent peace- Pulitiar Prix* Winner to receive the scholarship. With Semester Book Critics BY GREG GOVAN Perhaps in addition to chapel, coffee hour, and evening canned speeches, Dav- RALPH GABRIEL idson should have discussion groups at Hattie's for visiting writers. Christmas Vesper Service Yale Professor of History "I The idea, of course, is ridicu- plex work of art submittiblc to Knowles may have told all books, including The Course of lous since the YMCA sponsors four levels of interpretation about Peace when he said that Thought. written on an island in the Bay writing novels is closely akin American Democratic the Book of the Year and having Presents Musical Theme Religion and Learning at Yale of Naples (roughly equilavent to woodworking, to cabinet- might and Traditional Values inI its author up the road of to poetry' written at three a.m. making. They were, to him. The ancient musical service, lege students Dave Hardeman William H. Terry, is program American Life. He is editor of;fend whatever they happen to in dorm rooms). It flopped. But similar means of working off "A Festivalof Nine Lessons and and Decker Faw. College organ- coordinator. the Library of Congress Series believe in at the time. But it Peace didn't, perhaps because that peculiar form of energy. Carols," publicity campaign Peace is first used centuriesago. ist Wilmer H. Welsh will play The -.\ine Lessons" service in American Civilization and of iwould prove one thing, as it did of a not a sood cabinet what- will be the Davidson College during the program. begins with the creation and the 15-volume "Pageant of .with.John Knowle> last Tuesday really necessary, but which was ever else it may or may not be Verpcrs presentation the KBMVtej quip And Knowles Christmas Choral Music Professor Don- 'a11 of man and continues in America." inight: visiting writers are hu- chance for to is more artisan at 7 p.m. Sunday at College the , at the a!d B. Plott will direct the scripture and song to birth Begun in 1956. the Scholar man, if humanity is still con- certain Methods. than artist. Church. Servant— Christ, Program, by the chorus and choir, and Instru- »t the Divine sponsored itained in getting up from the And there were other rea- But a plucky The Davidson Choir. Male Chapters B) artisan. And an mental Music Professor Grier This is the fourth year that United of Phi table to make thr trip outside sons: energy to be expended, Intcratting one to talk with, as Chorus. Brass Ensemble, and | at Williams will direct the en- the senice has been given as Kappa, [f an effort to enable and around the c .rner a wish to deblur life, to be about nature of the Selwyn Avenue Presbyter- iea<i the news cover- semble. Mrs. Jack Hunter is the traditional Davidson Chri«t more schools to have understood.