Daily Eastern News: February 02, 1965 Eastern Illinois University

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For more information, please contact [email protected]. --Panthers Move Into Tie For League Lead-- (Story On Page 4) EASTERN NEWS "Tell The Truth and Don't Be Afraid" EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1965 Letter Cops · Warbler Controversy fute objectively, although proba ponents on the cover was deter tea, coffee hour, keg party, debate bly upon deaf ears, the criticisms mined by professional artists at and lecture without doing damage against last year's Warbler . the Durand Cover Company of to the sports section, the academic Chicago and supervised by the section • and even the Greek sec "FOR THESE are not true criti editor." tion." cisms at all, but only vague accus "And in the final analysis, "THE BEAUTY of a layout ations without any objective basis. Homecoming, Artists Series Board, consists in the balance and move-· whatsoever." Greek Week, Student Senate, started with a ment of whites, blacks and grays The letter then listed six ori Warbler, registration activities, e book and this on a two-page spread," said the ginal inovations of Mander's con Greek Rush, music department hn Roscich, a letter. "Again these were care tained in last year's Warbler: programs, News and student reli Kappa Epsilon, fully planned by professional art (T) the theme; (2) the use of gious activities are more import in the Senate ists working with the editor's beige, uncoated paper for the in ant than "a hootenany and vari the Greeks." ideas in mind," it said. troduction pages and section di ous other dances," said the letter. John Roscich d to the Sen- "If the taste of the students at viders; (3) the organization of the Eastern, particularly the Greeks," On Roscich's last comment, the academic section and the student letter said, "In direct refutation, "THE GREEKS only repre Roscich's charges it continued, "differ so much from life section; the editor will cite the coverage sent 14 per cent of the student ed "originality," that of authorities on the subject, of the two most impo:r;tant issues body. So we find that on the in appearance" (4 ) The use of a design motif the only solution is to let the o.f the 1964 school year; the News basis of pure numbers, the Warb oor coverage of on the cover and carrying. it Greeks state precisely what they through the introduction; (5) the controversy culminating in the ler staff deprived independent stu as well as in think would make a yearbook firing of Jon Woods as editor and dents of their fair share of cover of subject mat use of each fraternity's and sor beautiful and then let them try ; the Student Senate controversy on age by their overcoverage of the ined," Mander's ority's pin (6) the use of a line their hand at it." copy photograph of each .Greek On the item of "poor coverage the search clause in housing con Greeks," said the lette1'. position of the tracts." house. of student activities," the letter "If coverage of the Greeks in a quality publi "Both -of these articles were "The beauty of any yearbook," said that- all of the major activi the 1964 Warbler was completely defended by let judged as completely fair and ac said the letter, "consists in its ties at Eastern for the year 1964 lacking, as Roscich claims, then rating curate, with all details accounted cover design, its layouts and, in were covered. adequate coverage must be some for by the parties most involved the case of the 1964 Warbler, its thing far over and above the 36 letter said, "As "IN THE 56 PAGES (the length in them," the letter said. the yearbook and color scheme." of the student life section)," it pages worth they did receive," it who worked on it, According to the letter, the said, "the staff cannot cover every THE LETTER also noted that said. the way a yearbook shows consid obligated to re:- "placement of the various com- organizational dance, hootenany, In closing, Mander stated that eration for the various groups is if the Senate is "still unhappy ·through the amount of space al with the Warbler, then the stu loted them in the book,. "as the dents should seriously think of Greeks would define it." A/S Elects Samii Head doing away with the Warbler. Of Fire Twirling "Of a total of 188 pages devoted course, if there are enough stu As Nelson Leaves Post to various student activities," it I dents satisfied with the Warbler w a painting? said, "36 are. devoted entirely to Set For Lantz At the Jan. 2 meeting of the to justify its continued publica intings, drawings 7 the Greeks, and Greek activities. astern junior, sen Association of International Stu tion, the students .should consider Four of Eastern's baton twirlers "This includes the Greek section, t.e- students and fa dents, Iraj Samii was elected pres the possibility of making the pur will perform with fire batons at two pages on rush, one page for being offered for ident of the organization. chase of a yearbook voluntary half-time of the Central Michigan Greek Week and three pages of Pi, honorary art Samii replaces former president rather than mandatory." game on Feb. 6 in Lantz Gymnas Homecoming devoted entirely to David Nelson who will be student ium. the Greeks. This amounts to al OTHER SENATE action saw available for use teaching next quarter. most 20 per cent of all the 188 The twirlers are planning to the Sportsmanship Trophy ap · e offices and de Other replacements because of activity pages," the letter said. twirl fire batons burning gasoline proved. and campus off-campus student teaching in Noting that "there were 547 while performing a routine to a The award will be based on the cluded Fernando Velasco for Greeks who were interested jazz number written by George athlete's sportsmanship on and off may make Shaikh Yousuf as vice president enough in the 1964 Warbler to Westcott, director of Eastern's of the field and his sportsmanship Thursday in the and Rashid Khan for Jean Davis have their pictures taken for it pep band. "in general," according to the reg of the Fine Arts as student senate representative. the editor can and does as The four girls that will perform ulations. ct the art depart Maria Lopez, Lonnie Slider, sume that almost an �qual num are Judi Harold, sophomore from ' according to Or Nasir Husain and Furhad Dehghan ber are complaining about the The award will be made this Taylorville; Kathy Keefe, soph resident of the fra- were elected to serve as executive complete lack of coverage," the year, according to Bob Luther, omore from Oblong; Karen Mc board members. letter said. Student Sep.ate president. Nabb, sophomore from Charleston; and Tresh Wolfe, junior from Delavan. Miss Wolfe, commenting about 'EBONY' EDITOR SPEAKS IN LAB SCHOOL the fire twirling said, "It isn't nnor, associate pro . really dangerous except for our try at the Univer hair. We enjoy twirling with fire ota, will lecture on because it takes more concentra hon 14 at 7 :30 p.m. 'New Negro Mood Grove Crisis' --Bennett tion and skill and makes it more m 216 of the Science exciting." "The new Negro, mood is our tured by hundreds of years of bad were diluted, and by 1896 the doc gravest crisis since the Civil War." faith," he continued. The imposi trine of "separate but equal" was , according to O'Con- Thus Lerone Bennett, ·Jr., �egro tion of power by the Whites built the most recent and in full bloom. editor of "Ebony" magazine, es this "bad faith," according to Ben od for dating arche Bennett said, "The new mood Eastern To Host tablished his pivot-point Wednes nett. of past living mat can be traced back to the Niagra day evening at the Buzzard Lab Bennett then clarified the Negro terial living 30,000 Movement in 1905 when a New Debate Tourney oratory School Auditorium. position by assuring that "protest York organization was formed Bennett pointed out that two ing is not revolt." He continued which proposed to help protect the Eight students will represent forces are on a collision course with " . the current upset is Negro. It merged with the NAA with each other. They are the the result of active protest, but in 1909, and at the same time lications To Eastern in the debate tournament CP "Black Fury of 1964 and the White the potential is actual revolt." the Urban League was founded. y Friday to be held at Eastern Feb. 6. Rep Hysteria." Nothing can be settkd Today these are the two major resenting affirmative for team one or will be settled until America AT A MEETING prior to the "defense organizations" -for the lecture, Bennett compared this s for men's resident will be Bonita Ahring and Kathy decides what Gods it serves," he Negro." itions, for the 1965- present situation, in essence, to Lamkey, with Jean McCoy_ and said. , must be turned in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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