VMI GAME FIRST CONFERENCE CLASH (See Page Three) V The News and Editorial Voice of Davidson College VOL. U DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSON, N. C. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1962 NUMBER TWELVE Pupils Voice Disapproval YMCA Gift Fund Of Compulsory Religion Goes BY JIMMY DOWNEY Davidsonian Assistant News Editor An overwhelming majority of the student body wants a change in the required improving thepresent programs. Hospital vespersand chapel assemblies by either abolishingor — To Cambodian Only 35 students indicated opinions on the religious pro- But an even greater number their endorsement of vespers gram. 82 per cent (319)— indicatedthat and 101 endorsed chapel in the The purpose of the survey the Thursday chapel periods YMCA poll conducted Oct. 25 was explained by the YMCA were likewise not useful to Anesthesia spokesman, Machine concerning the Davidson relig- Bill Ferris. "This them. Odetta ContractedTo Sing ious program. poll is a student effort to bear Each answer on the student Opposed to that number were part of our responsibility with survey had to be qualified with 177 and 226 students who want- constructive criticism of the a reasonin order to be accepted. Target $4,000 ed to abolish the required ves- religious life program," he In the YMCA's report to the Folk Songs At Midwinters Of Goal pers and chapels, respectively. wrote. faculty committee was includ- Students began soliciting in the dorms this evening The number of students who "This poll is the result of ed a list of students' sugges- Odetta, probably the most highly-rated figure in the field of folk music today, for the 1962 edition of the annual YMCA Christmas Gift felt that only some kind of im- several students' concern for tions and some random com- for a Saturday,February Fund, which will go to aid a f'ARE-sponsored hospital religious Dav- chapel has been contracted Midwinters Concert on 16. provement is neededin vespers the program at ments on or vespers. According to IFC President, project in Cambodia. was 226; in chapel, 232. idson. We submit It realizing The most frequent comment Rogers, — — Johnny the contract has YMCA hopes to However a number of stud- that each of us as a students by students 143 times was already signed, and The raise lowed in this and in future been the $4,000 through student collec- yean, ents not only marked an en- is responsible for Hie relig- thatrequiredservices cannot be deposit been each solicitor will have a advanced has mail- tions to help provide the hospi- chart dorsement of one of the two ious program at Davidson. If religious. ed. roon with the names of services, the services are not meaning- One popular tal with needed equipment students he is soliciting. A list but also indicated idea to im- It is paradoxical that that required attendance ful the fault is, in part, our prove vespers was to permit Odetta Monry collected will be stretch- will be compiled after the drive the had never given a thought to at be abolished. own. substituting off-campus and ed between the three greatest showing whether a student con- the service folk singing. Her first profes- machine, These facts were indicated in One result of the report that morning servicesfor the regu- MMto: an anesthesia tributed or not, but not how sional appearance was in the report to Faculty the committee will consider is lar Sunday evening vespers operating table, and more lab much he gave. the YMCA the field of classics when .she was that 69 per (224 students) (56 suggested oratory equipment. In this way the hopes Committee on Religious Life cent students this); cast produc- YMCA re- who poll or in the West Coast An impassioned plea by to get an indication Tuesday, whichwill take the of those answered the attendance at a "cultural tion of "Finian's Rainbow." of student sults of the poll under consid- said that vespers was not mean- event" instead of vespers (32 Esther Wedin of the World 1 ni- interest in the Gift Fund pro- eration to study the students' ingful to their life as students. votes). Twelve students sug- Since this was Odctta's first versity Service for assistance ject, an indication moreprecise gested a greatervariety in time away from home she be- for college student housing in than that obtained from merely the very ministers' denominations, and came homesick. During Chile given in chapel Tuesday adding up the totalamount col- this trying time founil a few called for more familiar she com- failed to sway the student body. lected. fort in music which was hymns in the services. beeaisV More entertained thin in- Red-Blooded Youths ing popular at the time. The improvement ideas for fluenced, they voted by nearly It was a long hard margin the Thursday chapel also includ- strue.de> to a three-to-one immed- College WillSend ed hymns, plus the professional stage Her first iately after chapel for the familiar more appearance student participation. Some public was a spon- Cambodian hospital project. ; Their taneous one in hungry i," FiveToHockUN To Give Share "the More students this year voted BY TOM LOFLIN students asked for better prep- after which she was hired on than in any past -<!<■»■(i.m of the Davidson Davidsonian Staff Writer aration of talks for the chapel Colic-.' will send programs, proposed the spot. The offer was with- YMCA project. Also rejected five delegates to the Middle wine homecoming while 13 drawn, Blood will flow redder than on a however, due to the pro- by the students u.is a project to South weekend, Monday "feature" programs. United Nations Model in the basement of the gymnasium and tests of the performer then supply funds for (ieneral The faculty committee seem- additional Assembly in Raleigh Tuesday.Theoccasion will be the semi-annual blood drive there. teachers salaries Feb. ed impressed the problem at the Interna- 20-23. sponsored by the Red Cross and the Davidson College with I'nivcrsity of reaching through Later she was hired by a new tional Christian in ROTC Dept thestudents Tokyo. Japan. The mock United Nations is religious night club, the Tin Angel, and ODETTA sponsored While bleeding is not asi works will receive merits for a program. bn.niM' by the Collegiate performed there for a Her The collected dollars will 1 most of the students genuinely year. Council on the Tinted Nations pleasant as guzzling the booze each hour heputs in. go to Medico, the medical For people who donate the felt that a Christian influence eareer thereafter has become Its purpose is to enable <■. after a dance and the after- all service branch of CARE, to greatest was not gcttinfi through to them much more noteworthy. She has students to learn more about effects of a donation might not gift they can give this help support its hospital season, in the present program. appeared in the movies "Cinera- in the attitudes of last as long as a hangover, tho Christmas the Red Cross| Council small, other countries. Seeks Voice the malaria-ridden vil- provided provides Chaplain II ma Holiday" and 'Sanctuary'" ROTC Department has also a reward that no As a result Will lage of Lomph.it in an isolat- Davidson willrepresent Portu- a stimulus to encourage reluct- onehopes he will get. Any blood Terry sent out questionnaire Her reputationis wellearned; gal. The delegates 1 ed part of Cambodia. from here freshmen, | ant students to share a pint of donor or a member of his im- forms to the asking Odetta is perfectionist. She \s described by Dr f'omman- will receive information from their blood with the Red Cross. mediate family will be eligibleI them to submit suggested sub- has been known to work on Groups Portugal and will Faculty ; "]On diir.is nf in i-hap.-l 1m assume its be given blood any problems song for year CASE A free drill cut will to receive free from jects or for future a before releasing j BY JOHN TODD Thursday, the hospital has an position in the UN. Tuesday all of Red Cross hospital programs. He will eventually it the public. Once to cadets all member for to she has!' Davidsonian Staff Writer excellent staff nf doctors, hut survey song, however, The agenda includes two Gen- ranks who donate cither day six monthsafter he gives, should conduct this with all the mastered a it is suffers from serious equip- hours of emergency classes. property. The Student Council is seeking membership on at ■ eral Assembly sessions, commit- between the 11 a.m. an arise. her own ment shortage and 5 p.m. least four more faculty committees. They arc Absence tee meetings, ,", business meet- "The (lift Fund would help The Interfrafernity System; Building ami Grounds; Fraternities. Clubs, and inc. and a plenary session, to Council provide medical care not does its part, also, Social Life; and Reynolds Lectureship Committees. edu- decid< on constitutional pro- to see that cated j'tiessuork." he students donate someof their In its ri-Kular meeting this dorms on Sunday night," de- stated. posals. Dept., Burgery is limited at present All students Y eek. the council decided a wishing to apply Music Present In clared Fred McGuirt. life-giving After substance. due to the lack of an A new plaque will be awarded k the respect ne committee short discussion, Kimbrough anesthesia or to receive further informa- machine tad other equipment. this time to the fraternity with c lairmen In approve the idea. said he would check with the tioe should contact .lohn Spratt. In addition to an anesthes- ■411 liiehardson dormitory (The the largest percentage of don- Vespers Speaking for the council.