Three Fraternities Abolish Hell Week
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FRIDAY • FRIDAY Edition t Edition Washington and Lee Semi-Weekly Newspaper 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 .