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Volume LXTI LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY 9, 1962 Number 30 Senator Albert Gore ... I ••• Announces IRW Topic I • I Three Fraternities Senator Albert Gore. who will be the principle spcnkcr Cor Wa~ohington and Lee's lntemntional Relations Week. announced the topic for his Tuesday evenlng speech from his Washington office Thua•sday. He will Abolish Hell Week draw attention to the "United States Fordgn Policy in the Congo"-a sub ject of vital concern In loday's struggle for power in the world. By MALCOLM MORRIS As chairman of the Subcommittee on African Allain; in the Senate The elimination of H ell Week by chrce Washington Foreign Remtlons Committee, Senator Gore is considered one of the most important men in the country In this field. and Lee fraternities and the success of a new emphasis on Senator Gore's arrival Tuesday will be marked by a large slate-wide community service mark rhe end of uHelp Week" as it press conference here. Later, a dinner w1ll be held In h•s honor at Evans closes tonight. Dining Hall at 5:45 p.m. Faculty members of Ule Political Science Depart PiKA llell Week Tbrough ment have been invited as well as members of the host International ------· Relations Club, Pi Sigma Alpha, and 5electcd students The dinner is PiKA t.onded all plc~e abU5C!S $2.50 per plate and wHI featun:! a short after-djnner talk by the Senator New Major: Wednesday night, subst.ilulin~ a to the guests. The principal speech Is scheduled aL Lee Chapel at 7:30 p.m. program of constructive acUvit.ic:;. Pledge Trainca· Bill Outman com Contemporary mented on the change: "PiKA Hell Week Is over loa good as far as th" Federal Research Expert Civilization t.radilional concepts of Washingt.oP and Lee's Hell Week go. Our reason A new history major, in Cor a change lies ln a combinaUof\ or clements, found not only in our Discusses Southeast Asia Contemporary Civilization, house but in the whole student By LARRY MEEKS on "the prospects Cor country X for and an advanced placement body. We still will continue a week "Southeast Asia has something the next three years." program for freshmen will be of intcnsifled pledge activity but for everyone in Lhc academic field,' In the beginning of his discussion added to che Washington and only along a purely constructive John E. MacDonald told a Washing he empha$1wd the importance of line." ton and Lee audience Lhls moming Southeast Asia. with an area 1,600,- Lee curriculum next year, Phi Gam For the historian there is a rich and 000 square miles and a population of Dean of the College William Ph1 Gamma DelLa has announced varied history o( the rise and fall 200,000,000. W. Pusey announced today. that Lhls will be the last year of trn or dynasties. and an equally ferUle Southeast Asia, said MacDonald, dational Hell Week for its pledges The new Contemporary Civilizza President Steve Rutledge noted: field for economists, politico! sci provides a boundary between the Uon program makes a Lhlrd possible entists, and students of geo-politics. Hindu Culture and the Chinese Cul history major, in addition to the two The fraternity is moving in the MacDonald, a native o( New ture. now offered in American and Eur direction of eliminating the tradi Hampshire, is Ute Stale Depart H(• dlscu~ "lhc transition from opean history. According to Profes tional Hc!J Week at Washington ment's Chief of Research for SouUl colonial stales Utat has occurred in sor William G. Bean, chairman of and Lee. It is hoped that next year's east Asia. A g•·adu<~le of Yale, he has Ute last 16 years." This transition the hastory department, the new program will eliminate all traces of been with the Slate Department wa~ preceded by three factors, "na major Is designed to allow students the former abuse to pledges. since 1945. He received his cumml tionalism, anti-colonialism, and the who have no professional interest in Rutledge sald that although plans appointment last July. He has feeling for Independence." history to study more in areas thnt for nexl year were not yet deJinilc, a worked in Chlna, Japan and Korea. Another major factor is the local arc specifically related to the prob committee of the chapter had al He serves as an advisor to Sec pride in the historical and cultural Mr. Coleman and Or. Moger with new Lee Letters. lems and developments of contem ready ~gun work on a more effec retary of SLate Denn Rusk and aspects. Each country looks for porary events. Uve pledge training period. The other state department officials. He somethlng to make it unique. Jn an additional move Lo make the abolition of Hell Week by the Phl also spends lime in interdepartmen curriculum more "flexible," the his Gams is i.n accordance with the urg Educated People Pro-Socialist tal affairs such as preparing papers Two Lee Letters, Worth $4500, lory major bas been reduced from ing of the national £raterruty toward The influence or Marxist thought 36 to 30 hours beyond Hlstory 1 and a more progressive program. has been important. The educated 2. Sigma Chi class as a whole are pro-socialist Are Willed To The University Beginning next fall, freshmen may Debaters Plan but not pro-communist, MacDonald Sigma Chi abolished Hell Week in Two of General Robert E. Lee's llems, according to Dr. Allen W. apply for exemption from History 1 sal d. letters to President Jeffc1-son, vauled time to become the only house on Moger, Washington and Lee profes and 2. All freshmen entering with campus not l.o stage the period this TV Appearance The U.S. influence, which has al $4,500, have been added to sor of hlstory and Lee archivist. a verbal score of 600 or more on year. President .Bob Doenges, also Washington and Lee's collection of grown as colonialism disappeared, The complete collection of Lee ma their Scholastic Aptitude Test wlll President of the IFC, said that only By STEVE MITH more than 5,000 Lee letters. terial is open to schola1-s for in must also be considered. automaUcally be eligible to take a constructive work has been done by Washington and Lee's debating In his summary he brought out The leU~rs, bound in a • ed mo spection and research. test in European clvillzaUon and pre pledges during this Help Week. team, which is nt King's Co!Jege the influence of the Malayan insur n>cco leather case, arc dated August Several additional Lee letters also sent an essay to quaUiy for ad this weekend for its second major rection. This success provides n 22, 1863, and February 9, 1965. and have been added to the university's vanced standing. U the hlstory de Emphasize Con~tructive Work townament in two weeks. will ap precedent for the other nations in were willed lo the university by archives. Mrs. Armistead L. Long, partment exempts them from the Pi Kappa Phi, President Mike pear on lelevision March 12. the fight against Communism. It the late A lfred W. Stem, a Chi a Lynchburg resident, donatl'd let freshman course, they will Lake six Herndon S&Jd, placed emphasis al The team will race the winner of scl the precedent for Viet Nam's cago clothing exeeuli ve. ters by General Lee and one by hours In advanced history courses most completely on constructive a Duke-North Carolina match on fight against Communism. The correspondence presents an Mrs. Lee. One of the documenls, Instead. work this year, follo,ving a trend sel written to General Armistead R. in past years. The pledges worked WUNC, debating the topic "Re The U. S. Problem'! interesting contrast in the career solved: That the Unlted Stales of the famous Confederate general Long shortly alter the surrender at not only ln the house, buL for the should withdraw from the Uruted He concluded that a ga·eat change who later became president of Appomattox, tells of Lee's desire university nnd in the community. Nations" The program wiU run has been coming about in Southeast Washington College here. The A u to fu1d "some little quiet how;e in Shenandoah Pi Phi pledges workl'd for the from 9 to 10 o'clock p.m. Asia since World War II. The Unit gust lelter-writlen at Lee's head the woods" to get his wife away welfare board moving food, moved ed SLatPs wants to maintain the peo quarters at Orange Courthouse--In from the city. The letter from Mrs. books !or Lhe library, helped a The appearance will Lake place on ple's newly gainl'd independence Features o regular debating program which dicates that General Lee regrets that Lee is addressed to Miss Virginia needy farmer in the county, and but there ate problems. One of these President Davis will not consider Long, General Long's daughter. pel'formed other similar jobs. Hem is watched by s('vcral millions of Is that the United States is dealing people. Lee's request to be relieved of his The donor is the widow of the Poet Graves don commented: We feel that this is wllh agricultural people, many of post and permit him to serve "ln a more reasonable approach to an nephew oi General Long to whom The winter issue of henandoah, Team In Roanoke Feb. J!l whom wish to continue as they have any capacity at any post where I intensified pledge week . Gi!-neral Lee wrote. edited by English lnstructor Doug been through the centuries. They can do good. In anothe1· demonstration debate must be reconciled to change and "We al Washialt,-ton and Lee fed las Day, will appear on the ncws "Very Successful'' Gene•·al Let> thought that "the a week Inter, the team wi!J appear realize that these changes are for thal these letters arc n slgnJ.ficant st.nnds in the next few days. 1FC P resident Doenges snid that before a Roanoke high school. The lower· the position, the more suit their ~nefit. contribution to ous· Lee Archives," The issue features a symposium he felt the week was very success school was invited by the high able" to his ability and the more Dr. Moger snid. "They enhance our During the question-and-aru.wer "agreeable" to his feelings on English poet Robert Graves, com ful as a Help Week. Fraternities school lo put on a model debate on (Continued on page 4) already extensive collection, and I prised of essays by W. H. Auden, placed more emphasis than ever be The 1865 letter, compo:.cd al Lee's am certain Lhcy will prove to be or Feb. 19. Thom Gunn, G. S. Fraser, D. J . En Core on community service, as op Thjs weekend the tcnm is at Petersburg headquarters, Is Gener value to many Lee scholars who rtght, Donald Davie, Alan Sillitoc, posed to hazing. King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Perul a I Lee'!> acceptance or the post or \•is:i t our library." Gencral-in-Chh•f (commanding gcn· and Colin Wilson. Commentmg on the move to nbol sylvnnla, lacing such perennial Math Programs (ContinueG on Pl&'e 4) powers as Dartmouth, Duquesne, eu1l) of the Confl'deratc Army. He Poems by Emight, Davie, and had been commander of thc Army of Marine Corps Officer Sillitoc; and by Phlllp Larkin, Geof Fordham, Pc011 Slate. Pittsbu~h. To Be Studied Vlllnnova, and Ohio. The negative Northern VirJ(inia until his appoint Will Interview for PLC frey Hill, Rulh Falnllght., and Geof Alumni Seek Funnds: team is composed oi Bill Noell and The chairmun of the committee ment m the lru.t two months or the frey Johnson are published. Wua·. Questionnaire Compiled AI &kcs, while Jay Clark ond Ed on uodcrgraduatc mathematics pro Manne Corps office• selection of Book reviews by Mr. Jamc~ Boat Norton are debating the affirmative Thl• lt!Ll(•rs ;u·e valued at more grams o£ the MnthemnUcnl Asso ficer will be on C.'llllpus February 12 wdght ond Dr. Fitcgerald Flourr\oy, According to Bill Washburn, resoluUon. ciation of America will speak Feb. than $4,500, accordjng to Earl S. and 13 to Interview students Co•· or the W&L English department, are Mattingly, Washington and Lee Alumni Secretary, two major alumni The King's Tournament is a 19 and 20 a~ Washington and Lee. Marine Corps office1· training pro featured. Mr. Boatwright reviews progrl11nS are in progress. The first slrength-al<(ain:;t-slrength match, lrea6urea·. grams The Officer selected team Malcolm Lowry's Hear U'l 0 Lord Dr. R. Creighton Buck, a mem u of th~e. the Occupations of Alumni meaning that the winning learns Stem, rctu·ed officer of Kup will be al W&L to p1·ovidc informa F rom llCllven Th Dwelling Place ber of the University of Wiscon penhlem & Co, Inc., In Chicago, Program, has as its aim a file on face winning tl•nrns In the late sin faculty, will d1~:euss the appli tion und interview applicants. and Dr. Floumoy reviews George died Mn y 3, 1960. In hi~; v.lll, he the occupnUons of oll W&L alumni. round~t. while losing teams come up Steiner'!> Tbe Death of Trqedy. cation of mathematics and mathe requc,;ted Ulal the lettt'rs be given r'rc~;hmen nnd sophomore men Questionnrurcs have ben sen to against losing teams. matical re
WQt !tug-tum J~i At The Fa1zcy D ress Co1zcert. • • Johnny Quick Manbororv....!n:.::::;"'-,._,...., A Review: The Brubeck Quartet And !he By TRACY l lARRlNGTON but VCI'Y solid rhythm man. His solos in this listener's oplnlon were Bru- American Way The Dance Sets Are Back When the Dave Brubeck Quartet nrc often interjected with hilarious beck's driving solo on the first By STEVE lfENRY emerged from the West Coast in quotes from other songs. His rhy- number, Desmond's wonderful lyric It's tnteresting how we tend to take things for granted here the early 1950's, its music was mel thmlcal approach to the bass is one ism on just about everything he Whnt we would like to sec around with SC\tere criticism from the pub- whlch ia very congenial to the played, but especially on Sewannee thia campus Is n Johnny Quick Can at Washington and Lee. Take Fancy Dress for example. This club. lie and jazz musicians alike. Today, group as a whole. River, and of course, Morello's ex- year's Fancy Dress Dance Set provided excellent, up-to-date Did you ask who Johnny QuJck however, this same organization Is J oe ~Iorello citing clim,ax to the day. is? Well, we'll tell you. He is the the most widely acclaimed, and Perhaps the finest number as a entertainment. The Ball itself was an unqualified success. Ev greatest. He is Barry Goldwater, along with the Modern Jazz Quar- Drummer Joe Morello Is perhaps whole was Gone With the Wind. eryone agreed that the Dave Brubeck concert was one of the Douglas McArthur, Teddy ROOS(! tct, the highest paid jazz group In the key to the musical approach Everyone in the group seemed to velt, and John Birch. all wrapped best in recent years. Even the Saturday night dance was well the world. This meteoric rise can of the group today. Unquestionably have high regard (or the song and up ln one. Wow! attended. be directly attributed to the growth one o! the finest preeussionists in played it with this same regard. When Johnny Quick acts, the And yet, no one seems to remember that, chis time last of the music style of the leader. the world, Morello has influenced Brubeck The Compc>se,r In the early years, Brubeck was explorations in diversified rhythms. world takes notice. Take, for ex year, the formal dance sets were rhe jokes of the campus and sUil much under the influence of His work on the recent Time Out A special note, It may be added ample, last month when he person and Time Further Out albums has that Brubeck Is a fine composer as ally righted the wrongs of a Latin dance plans were objects of general derision. the clnsslcal pinnlsts and composers. 11 been nothing short of magnificent. we as a tremendous musician. American dJct.ator who had been re We arc not going to scold the student body for nor appre He had studied with the great Dar- T r th · h 1a sponsible for the hljacklng of one or ius Mllhaud, a renowned classicist. Many of these explorations were wo...... 01 e piecesh. e P yed Sat- ciating Fancy Dress. We do think, however, that Steve Galef taken from indian and African sour- ur~UtY were 1s one compositions. Johnny's planes. (Johnny, you see, Because of this Influence, the style of es. No other drummer before Morel- 0 ne, The D u k c, h e wrote as specia1 is no small operator). and Frank Young deserve a special word of thanks. T he bur Brubeck was heavy and awkward. lb to Duk Ell'h..-.~ Th lo, with the possible exception of tr ut.e e .. oo .... n. e olher The Butcher ol Tri.buto den of responsibility for the dance sets lies almost entirely in Since that l.lme, he has undergone Max Roach, was able to play such was a wond e rf u 11Y 1 Y ri cal ball a d en- a miraculous muslcial transition. As · 1 d In y the hands of the President and Vice-President of the Dance rhvthms with a J'azz conception. Ul c ow· Own Sweet Way. It When Johnny found out that hls opposed Lo the heavy, early style, his Because" ol the addition of Morello, m1g· hl ,__"" said th at one o c th e w1est"'- plane was being held on the small Board. These are thankless offices, despite the tremendous style today is a clean, driving one. j din d d island of Tributo (any similarity to the music of Dave Brubeck has been azz reeor gs ever ma e was one Cuba is incidental), he sent a tele amount of work involved. Galef and Young have not only Paul Desmond able to grow both harmonically and by Miles Davis, on th1s same ballad. provided excellent entertainment, but have, by dint of imagina rhythmically. For those interested in recordlngs gram to the dietnlor in which he Along with Brubeck there is one by lhe quartet, there are many to said the following: "Release the tion and hard work, lifted the dance sets out of last year's mire, other man who has remained with When the quartet played at Wash choose !rom. Perhaps the best re plane, you fat butcher, or we'll bang a noteworthy accomplishment by anybody's standards. the group since its inception. This is ington and Lee last Saturday after cording done in the SO's by the you for piracy!" Alto Saxisl Paul Desmond. Prob noon, it was met with tremendous A word of thnks is also due the faculty committee on so· group was Jazz At Oberlin, on the Well, you can guess the outcome ably one of the most gifted lyrical enthusiasm. The music of the day Fantasy record labeL The group Cor yourself. The Fat. Butcher (who, cial evems for giving them a chance to show what they could improvisera in jazz today, Desmond's was wonderfully balanced and ex played such famous jazz classics incidentally, had a beard and was a do with a dance set, and co Dr. J ay Cook and Dr. Charles Phil worth to the group is one never to pertly performed. From the opening as Perdido and Ilow High the Moon. Commle), refused to release the be doubted. With complete com bars of the SL. Louis Blues to Mo lips for their patient service as Dance Board advisors. Since the group switched to the plane, so Johnny bopped up from mand of hls horn, his solos are a rello's IanUstic rhythmical display Columbia label, they have turned his desk, enlisted the aid of a few wonder of perfect tonality, rhythm, in 5/4 time nl the end, the quartet out a great number of albums. The commandoes, whipped down to Tri and imagination. played with o jazz feeling whlch fmest of these are probably Gone buto, and hanged the Fat Butcher. The basslst In today's quartet, had almost all feet tapping. With the Wind and lhe recent Time Take that, you nasty old dictator! A Welcome Discussion Eugene Wright, Is an unobtrusive The musical highlights of the day Out and Tlme Further Oul. Now there's an example of real It looks like this year's International Relations Week, which Americanism. It's like one of John ny's admlrers said, "You don't often begins Tuesday, will be another outstanding event in the see that kind of courage in nn Am school year. Professor J ohn Gunn and Lance Tarrance deserve On The Problem Of Biased Professors.· erican any more." a good deal of credit for bringing a distinguished sec of speak Johnny got hlmscU into a pretty ers to the campus. bad predicament in Tribulo, though. robjectivity' Is A Much-maligned Word The Fat Butcher's comrades were Senator Gore's announcement today chat he will discuss relatively hocked off, and were clos By lfOWABD SLATER our purported ideal? The proverb observation. 1 do not believe that ing in on Johnny for the kill. the United Scates policy in the Congo, together with Professor Just as students attend college for about "people in glass houses" Jits the professors at th1s university are Nawaz"s an nounced plans to discuss " The United Nations at a number of seasons, so It Is also very well here. But this, of course, is biased. They have opinions, but 1 do Enter Daddy Warbucks the Crossroads," should encourage some much-needed discus true that students give opinions and my personal reaction to lhat arti not th1nk that these opinlons per But, then, but Lhen, bul then! write columns for more than one cle. and l1ence, subjective. It il meate their classrooms. Recently, Along came THE man Daddy War sion at W&L on the role of the U nited States in the United reason. Usually they do so because lustrates how difficult iL is to ach I heard one professor remark, "Gen bucks. (Darn lt. you've guessed IL Nations. We hope that everyone who can will get down to Lee they believe in what they have to ieve objectivity, and also possibly, tlemen, il you are looking Cor an We're talking about a comic strip.) Chapel fo r the sessions. say. the uUer !utility of trying to argue swers, forget it! There aJ"e no an Daddy Warbucks whlsked Johnny But saying that you support about anything. For this reason, give swers In t.hls course." And then he away without a scrat.ch. They ended something, or "stand" for something credit to all those who realize this went on to point out his biases. God up at Big Daddy's secret hideaway, is an entirely different matter often paradox and yet continue the at bless the man, and all those Uke and in the process managed to sink from actually doing so. The oceur tempt. himl I think they rule the roost an atomic Russian trawler that was The New History Major ance oi lip-service protestations Let me make one final 'personal' here. Intent on ending their illustrious The announcement today that the history department throughout the course of hlsrory nre careers. sufficient proof of this phenomenon. Their troubles weren't over, even ment will offer advan ced p lacement to qualified freshmen is Behind the News It is also true that this lip-service at Daddy's pad. Not by a long shot. proof chat the overall p reparation and talent of Washington does not necessarily have to be Dean Gilliam has said lhat this In the hands of the Ring-lum Plri Those nasty old whatcvertheywercs and Lee studen ts is goin g up every year. For the p resent f resh hypocritical. I do believe, for ex year's Fancy Dress "wa.s one o! sU!ff: nn excellent print o{ Dr. At stlll wanted revenge, and dropped 200 crack parachuters down to put man h istory cou rse is an excellen t course in the hands of the ample, that the medieval Church the best three 1 have ever seen." wood, Dr. Shillington, and Dr. Bar was sincere in its belief that ll act rilL performing ln one of the old the quietus on Johnny and Daddy. department's overwhelming majority of good teachers. I t is ed rightCu.Uy as the agent of a mild, • • • SWMSFC minstrel shows. The pro It took OUR boys about two day,o; a stimulating and challenging cou rse to aU but the very best stu· forgiving J esus, when it in fact There seems to be a good chance fessors are clad in loud striped to wipe out the 200 parochulers, an dents. ruthlessly surpressed deviationists, tho~ Ray Charles will play for blazers, boaters, and bermuda shorts. other example oi the obvious su heretics, or whatever you prefer clther a concel't or a dance during Dr. Atwood is sporting a very dia periority of the Western mind. Advanced p lacemen t, however, should be a great advantage to call those unfortunate wretches. Spring Dances. Other possibililies bolical moustache. Oh, this really made th.ose other to students who en ter here with a very good background in "Objectivity'' Problem Include Dave Guat·d. (a former One picture is wodh a thousand people mad. They decided to wipe member of the Kingston Trio), Jo!.lh words, they say. up the enUre island with an H European history. And it should prove further, as the pres Therefore, we must, In fairness, White, and Charlie Byrd. bomb. Guess what! Big Daddy had a ent highly successful advanced placement p rograms in mathe cast the benefit of doubt in favor of Dance Board President Steve ray gun stashed away in some dark the recent article, "Too Much Opin • • • matics and English do, that che U niversity is willing to lee a Galef had originally hoped Lo pro comer, with which he shot down the ion Puts Bias Into Some Courses." mote a folk music festival for There is a good chance that the foreign planes carrying the bombs. studen t go as far as he is able as fast as he ca n. Probably, it was a sincere article. Spring Dances. He !eels now, how "High Society" theme U5(!d in this WHOOM! The bombs went off, right We will be waiting to see the specific requirements for the However, being sincere about a sup ever, that lhere is not enough lime year's Fancy Dress Ball will be in the mlddle of n Russian ship. End posed belief is not the same thing as Contemporary Civilization major. The University presents a t•emaining to make the proper con made a permanent one. The theme or bad guys, hooray for good guys! actually holding this belief, as we tacts and preparations. is especially well-suited to the de sound group of courses now in contemporary art, literature, have seen. It is one th1ng to demand cor of Evans Dining Hall. Futhcr, Deus Ex Machina? and history. But we believe that it is just as important for a man objectivity from our professors: it is • • • the cost of lbe costumes is consid The last time we looked, J ohnny, another thing Lo spell out how this erably less, which improves the at Daddy, ru1d Annie were standing co know about the M iddle A ges, or the sixteenth century, as it objectivity ought to be achieved. Uncas McThenla ru1d others arc around, commenting on how tense extrcmdy interested In studying the tendance at the dance. is to know about the events of the last 100 years. We are sure, And when lhe attempt is made to things had been. Every once in a spell out what Is obJective, what possibility of changes in the pr~ent while, someone would throw in one however, that the history department is not deluding students rush system. They feel that the • • • other result is there than the ex of those priceless liltle pearls o! into chinking that a thorough knowledge of contemporary change of the student's "objeetlve present system definitely hns H's Rumor has it that the announce wisdom like, "That just shows you advrutt.ages, but that there are ment on the new history major will t•vents is any substitute for a sound knowledge of the whole conclusions" in pia~ o( the profes that nothing can beat good old changes that could be made which be followed by t.he announcement span of human history. It does matter, a great deal, what the sor's "subjecUve" opinions? Yankee ingenuJty." (After all, ev would iron out some o[ the rough of t1 new sociology major. Dr. Ley ery Yank has a r·ay gun in his Now who is (foing to scr1ously edges, and improve the system ns a burn Is reportedly In charge of the ancient Greeks, or the Carolingians, or Louis X IV , did. contend that, in o comparison o( a house.) Or, ''True Americans aren't whole. details. student's views and a professor's, afraid to act." (Rise, W&.L, to Cuba. that the student's are more valid? Jl We'll hang old Fidel in lhe morn IDIJr lUng-tum 1111t Is ridiculous to argue that a man Ing.) Friday Edition who Is, comparatively speaking, an Dr. Drake Reads 'Peter a12d The JVolf' But, halt. Before we go, perhaps The Rlnr-t om Phi la pubUahed Tuea- Enterrd as ~ond ch1.u matter Sep- expert In his field ought lo subor- we need a little or~onization. That's day llncl Fiida>· during the colle&'& year. tember llO !946 at the Polt Oftlce Lo· d' t h' 1 · d ts l th why we need a Johnny Quick Fan It ta printed by thf' Journalb1m Llbor· ln~rton. Va. under the act ot Marcb 1 ma e IS va ue JU gmen o osc atory 'Pre!l!l. Wuhlnston and Lee Unl- S. 18'78. of hi~; litudcn t ~. Club. Every other organit.aUon on s;,)',''~xl~~~~~~~nr addrua Ia Box Editor ...... _ ...... - ...... _ .. Bill Roberti This is not to say that teachers are campus gets members without even RualnrM Manager ...... Peter Aceluto always r1ght tht're :li'C always cx- lrying lt'8 only loRtcal that some Notional Advorllalng Service l\lanaJinr Editor ...... _ Lanny Butler ccpt1ons. But think of how workable thing really worthwhile like the GO E. 60th Street AMt. MonnJing Edltur...... lhe educntionnl li) "tem would he JQFC could attract throng:;. N• w York 22. New York -··--...... Tt·a e) Hanlnrton If ll { II . ------1t were at lC mercy o a optn- Would some responsible leader, ionalt'd, so-called "critical'' students. who wor~hlps the ground that John ny and Warbucks walk on, and bc Wh~ Stud~? llcvc~o in t'Vl!l'ylhinl( they advocate, Of courst, Usc 111 l.lcll.' llb:>I.'IIL-d that gel lo work on the sLudt•nl body? only ''some coUrl>es" nrc bia~oed. ll could be the ~reutest. "SludenU. attend colll'~te (or many One final warnml(. though. Don't and varied rl.'ason:.." Unfortunut.cly, get indoctrinated In Uw process. Onl' 0£ theM~ reasons is the dcair<: to Join the JQFC bccau. e \'OU feel It find confirm.1t1on of ~hal one ul· in your heart, not lx>cau~e someone n•ud~ h£olievu Allhou~;h '"'!'hi.' true tells you il might be tht nice thing cducalionnl pt oce:.JI consi~ots of Jjre to do. Plc.lltl'? &<·nllnl( unci cxplorm~ot u subject from all points of vit•w,'' th
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o( the hotel • From the • "Cum Loude Col~ction" • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page 4 TiiB RING-TUM PHI Go Generals! Warbucks, Si! (Cootinued buD P•l• %) no illusion, friends. Just as the Communists are try mg to destroy the House Un-Amer ican AcUviti1..'S Committee by calling for their civil rlshts as Americans under the Fifth Amendment, the au thor or this little hit o{ subversion and hand-biting has chosen to at lack one of our mo:.L venerable and J. T. Russell, Librarian re!ipceted free lnsUtuUons-Daddy How The Ring-tum Phi Got Its Name Wnrbucks. He would feel that War- J. ThollU\S Russell hns resigned as bucks ls not a grenL hero but rather The name "Ring-tum Phi" aounds plcntUul. Local merchants found "Saturduy evening, '0\.'C. lt, the Washington and Lee's Public Serv- n desp1scd cnp•lalist and enemy of more like a yell than the name of a their ads well-read because the edi mo.>t brilliant evening of the !Iea ices Librarian to accept a position the working gcln~scs, nn Imperialist college paper, il should because IL Is. tors slipped in such little gems of son took place when Ml!C'S CarmJch at the Naval Wenpons Laboratory at who no doubt has ties with a Fns- Back in 1897, one oC the Generals' fact as this one: acl gave her lasl leliliOn In the danc Dahlgrcn. cia't organization like the OAS. yells went like this: A Little Gem ing haU on Randolph Street. The A member oi the McConnick Li- We also act the imprCSI>ion thnt rooms weH! tastefully decorated Ring-tum Phi "Found- in front of Dr. Howe's, brnry stofl' here since 1959, Russell the Fat Butcher is not a cowering Stickerl bun with cut flowers and growing plants. will become Reader Services Li- slob but a bright-eyed idealist. ~hoc, number 3 ~. Having a long At 8 o'clock Miss Anderson took her We're hot stuff brarian at the Naval Inst.aUaUon Really now! tongue it is :suppo:.cd to be of Cem place at the piano. and to the inspir From Lexin(lon inme gcnder.-R.EL.'' near Fredericksburg. What we n«.'d m the United Rah, Rah, Rah! ing strains of "Drunk Lost Night.," Russell's successor has not been St.atrs is a johnny Quick-Daddy White and Blue The "Ring-tum Phi" yell was the clau entered the room led by named to date, Henry E. Coleman, Warbucks fan club. He, like Whoopla, whoopla! d1scardcd in 1900 but the newspaper Miss Law"ll Tucker. The young la university librarian, &aJd. Barry Goldwater and Douglas Mac- WL.U. has continued under that name until dies were in fancy dre.:as, represent the present. ing flowers.'' He received his bachelor o{ arts Arthur, typlfic:; the great Amen Not only was that a college yell The fourteenth issue of the Ring degree in 1957 from Kenyon Col- can virtues oC Resourcefulness, back in 1897, but it was the only one tum Phi was published on Saturday lege and his master of arts degree Patnotism nnd Love of the Land Washington and Lee bad. January 15, 1898. The Southern Col Houses Abolish Hell Week m 1959 from the Uruver&ity of that we JO desperately need in this So, naturally or not., when J. Sam legian hod nlready been established (Continued from paJe 1) Michigan. He also attended the Uni- modem age. Ri!IC, up Real Ameri Slicer and Gordon R Houston for the lead article in the paper vei'Slty or Maryland. cans, rally behind the Star-Span- rowlded the paper in that year they dcocribcd the article:. in the forth i h Hell Week. Do<:ngu suid lhnt he Russell, 26, served ns assistant to glcd Bonner, and smile down those chose lhe name Rinr-tum Phi. Il coming issue of the Collegian. felt a great change was innovated the cataloguer ot the Navy's David _ac_o_ff_c_r•_nt_o_ur_F_rec__ w_a_y_o_J_Li_'f_e._ this year, and that even greater was also picked to slgnliy "The A news story on the third page Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Voice of the Student Body." modification would come next year or this is:sue or the paper is head Md., in 1958. He taught public school The two Ring- tum Phi founders lined "Mlss Carmichael's Dancing Dr. Louis Hodges, ASllt. Profes Southeast Asia Lecture sor of Religion, spoke from a facul In Leesburg In 1957. He Is a native hod few financ1al troubles in that Closs Closes with a Flourish.'' The of Washington, D.C. (Continued from page 1) Beat H-S day and lime. AdverU~mcn ts were nrUcle goes to say: ty viewpoint; The administration will prob.lbly crack down on Hell period, he was asked if U.S. recog Week unless Irntcrnllics &ubslltulc nition or Red China would effect a more conslrucU\•e PI'OI{ram for the Hamric and Sheridan the stability or the notions or South traditional pled~tc abu!oe. JEWELERS cast Asia. He answered that the an Mr. WilUam Chaffin, peech In Watch and J ewelry Repair ewer ls p1·obably "yes," but he 49 Listed On Honor Roll structor. noted: Hell Wet•k has Hand Engraving and Class Bln&s quickly added, "Circumstances no plact~ on the carnpu:. of a modem no 3-zou would chnngc "10 much by the Ume Forty-nine students made Honor Ladd, E. F. McEnuJiy, R. W. univen;ity. we did tlus that my Opinion now Roll grades for Ute first ~mcster of Lcv.is, R. D. Mannion, W. II. would prove practical!) worthless." the 1961-62 school year, including McClure, D. H. Noell, W. L. eutht Cre:Junen. Eight student:. made McKim, W. M. 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