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'Cats Whip Wake Forest 95-88. Face St. Joe Tomorrow £ 'TL DAVIDSON STUDENT COACH DOLE RESIGNS; GIVES TRAVELOGUE NO SUCCESSOR NAMED (See Page Three) (See Page Five) Wfrtf The News AndBamiisonranEditorial Voice Of The Davidson College Stud ent Body VOL, UV. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSON,N.C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1964 NUMBER ELEVEN ODK Tapping Honors Seven College Union Plans IFor Christmas Party The College Union's fifth annual Christmas Party will be held on Friday night. Dec. 18 Tuesday Chapel Program from 7:30 until 12:30. In to Long,chief propagand- According Zach ist of the Union (whoalso serves as vice-pres- Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership fraternity, ident of the Union) the production will be inducted six seniors and one faculty member into mem- the "sharpest, gayest, and most expensive bership in a tapping ceremony on Tuesday. campus event of the year." Membership in the fraternity major from Winston Salem. Is a Entertainment will feature local groups, is the highest leadership honor member of Alpha Tau Omega according to Long, as well as three combos at Davidson, and is based on and a Dana Scholar. He is a which will be stationed in different parts of ** excellence in the fields of schol- member of Eumeanean Literary the building, door prizes,and fortune telling. arship, athletics, social and re Society, Eta Sigma, and L^^^ ligious activities, publications, Phi and cultural activities. has been editor of the PHI BETE LECTURER The purpose of ODK is to re- Wildcat Handbook and on the cognize men who have attain DAV1DS0NIAN and Annual ed eminence in two or more of Staffs. B^B^L^L^^^^BP these fields and to inspire others Steve Davidson, a history ma- to strive for similar attain- Jefferson Authority jor from West Palm Beach. ments. It also tries to bring to past president of gether members of the faculty Fla.. is vice and student body on a basis of the VMCA and is on the vanity mutual interest and understand- rootball and swimming teams. Will Lecture Friday ing. He holds a football scholarship join SWAIN DAVID HALLMARK DAVIDSON These new members other and is a member of Phi Delta Dumas Maloae. noted bio- dence. who professors and itudents Literary grapher of Thomas The author of a number of ODK in Theta and Eumenean Jefferson have been inducted into Society. and editor of the Dictionary of publications, the professor is past years. American Biography, will lee now attempting to complete a Exchange Letter, Professor Rufus Hallmark, a history- Dr. Malcolm on "Thomas and projected five-volumebiography History studied French major from Fort Bragg, ture Jefferson of at Davidson Our Time" next Friday at 8:15 of Thomas Jefferson. The firs: Mercer University, the Uni holds a McConncll Scohlarship at p.m. in Hudson Hall. three volumes include Jeffer- Program versity of Virginia, and the Uni- and is president of the Male Historian Malone. whose visit son the Virginian. Jefferson and versity of London. He is a mem Chorus. He is ■ member of is sponsored by the local chap- the Rights of Man, and Jeffer- ber of Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Beta Kappa, the DAVID ter of Phi Beta Kappa, will son and the Ordeal of Liberty Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Ful- SONIAN stafr, and Lingle Man Discussed ■T make the first appearance of Phi Beta Kappa's Visiting bright Scholar, lie w.is Pro or. Scholar his two day visit during chapel Program was begun in Will Jackson presented the fessor of History and DmU of Tommy Heffner, a pre medicine Thursday. His talk on "Mr. Jef- 1956 to enable more schools to the College of Liberal Arts at major from Newton, is possibility of participating in a former will be fol have leading scholars partic: Mercer before coming to David secretary-treasurer and vice ferson's Education" student exchange program with by an informal coffee pate in campus activities. son in 1959. president of the Student Coun lowed Amherst College to the Student hour in the Union. Under the sponsorship of the Dick Bates, Ihistory major til, and serves on the current United Chapters of Phi Beta Council at the council's weekly Thursday evening at 8:30 he from Miami. Fla.. i* chairman council .1^ vice-presidentor the Kappa, a scholar .spends two or meeting Monday night. B^^ the Honor Court and *U CtMt, is .1 member will meet informally with his- of Senior ft three days on campus. General program 19fi^ Freshman tory majors in the Faculty Club- Jackson called the president of the i>r Phi Gamma Delta. Alpha I'lu ly ,i visiting scholar gives a room on the Old Fraternity "a sort of cultural exchange" in Council. A member of Kappa Omega. Phi Eta Sigma, DClub, public lecture, leads classroom Alpha, he is a Dana Scholar and cross-country Court. The following morning which eight Davidson students and the team. discussion, and meets informal is a former member of the Swain, a pro medicine1 at 11 Malone will lecture to Hu- would to Bruce ly with thethe students and faculty.faculty travel Amherst over Ga., manities 21 on "Reflections on spring DAVIDSONIAN Stafr. major from Clarkesville, is vacation next semester LESTER BATES HEFFNER Roger David, a pre-medicinc Biography." and days, at- a Dana Scholar and on the soc- visit for several addition, former tending classes, examining stud rer team. Swain is a member In the Thorn )f as Jefferson Foundation Pro- ent life in general, and perhaps Phi Gamma Delta. Alpha BOOK Omega, fessor of History at the Univer- borrowing ideas from Amherst OF-SEMESTER Phi Eumenean Literary sity of Virginia will visit vari- campus this Society, and was on the Student lifeto use at school. history and will Likewise, eight Amherst men Council of 196364. ous classes be for informal confer- would come to Davidson over Dr. William Tate, Dean or available Braine Talks On English Novel Men at the University or Geor- ences with students and faculty their spring vacations for the gia, keynoted the ODK Tapping members. same purpose. By HEYWARD he feels should, regardless caught lately CARTER he which has on in asked whether untrue character Malone his AB at Emory Transportation to the host col Ceremony. took Dawldsonian Feature Writer of the success of anyone else England. The first. Kingsly or situation portrayals in the College and later received BD, lege would be paid by the stud ,,. In a speech which sparkled in any style. Top Th we known EngHsnb other Amis, who started the ball roll- film of Room at the annoy- with humorous phrases and well AM. and PhD degrees from Yale ent himself, while the host ,. would feed and lodge the visit- novelist John Braine. au- It could even be said that, ing with his novel Lucky Jim. ed him. Braine answered that placed anecdotes, Tate discuss- University ing student. thor of Room at the Top, "All English writers are anar- not only shocked the literary a film must necessarily over- ed the problems and promises After serving on the faculties or the rising generation. and the Jackson asked that any mem as YMCA book of chists," because not only do world by setting his novel in a simplify at times, and besides, at Yale U. Va.. historian chosen He as the pro- editor of Diction- ber of the student body inter ester, they other, university other than Oxford or covered well became an the the sem recently vis- not follow each but Cambridge, "what the film does is no skin mising aspects of life for the ary of American Biography in ested in participating in this "they not meet but his protagonist DUMAS MALONE ited the Davidson campus, do their fellow resounding victory off my nose." ruture generation by citing the 1929 and two years later became program see him as soon as writers very As a matter even wins a while here Braine gave a often. This is wny,in response to the increased lire expectancy of From 1936 to possible for further details. of fact, they don't in the end. editor-in-chief. series of talks and discus- even meet question of whether he thoughtI man. new technical facilities, 1943 he was director of the Har- The council voted to grant a very Braine himself was another 3ions on "Contemporary their fellow human-beings the film should or wouldget the the way of life, vard University Faculty $20 subsidy to Ken Childs. Dav j leader in breaking away from democratc the Press. To \oveiists n Britain," or as often." Academy Award he could reply emphasis which our Christian taught idson delegate to the Student » In the 35-year period the old mode of writing, with Malone at Columbia he put it a very non.aca. from hi« This with complete indifference: culture places on "sacredness University 1W5 until Conference on National Affairs j Room at The Top. was from 1959 jem c general discussion 1918 through 1953. the English "The Academy Award means| or personality," and duty when with an assurance of 15 extra , g the first novel set outside of the he returned to U. Va. Focus On bout my eneration of novel took a decided turn for nothing to me." or America to maintain peace. biographer dollars for a chapel program the worse. They general- London without a Northern where he is in-resi VrtgHsh novelists." were actually to be given by the delegate up- In c'hapel he doalt with con- ly set in ,-ind the background which was London hero taken seriously. hero, Proposals on his return.