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University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 2-16-1962 Sandspur, Vol. 67 No. 14, February 16, 1962 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol. 67 No. 14, February 16, 1962" (1962). The Rollins Sandspur. 1171. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1171 EDITORIAL AH Campus Publications To Call A Halt Beginning with Fall term of next year, there will be no Sandspur, no Tomokan, offer their services. True, others came in from time to time to chat and criticize and n0 Flamingo, and no R Book. contribute an occasional article. But when spring term rolls around, there is almost Next fall, campus news will consist of the Rollins calendar on the Union bul never more than one person who is willing to accept the editorship. letin board. Important campus figures can no longer declare themselves misquoted, The Flamingo at this point does not lack an editorial board or a successor to and campus dissenters will have to dissent vocally. The Grapevine table of intramura! the editor, but it perenially lacks contributions. "You know who has talent," said the gossip will be banished forever. editor in discussing the magazine's plight, "but you have to go to them and ask them." If a student wants a story published, he can publish it himself, for the Fla In all of these cases, we will concede that encouragement is necessary, and per mingo will no longer attempt to reflect the atmosphere of campus creativity. haps more might be given. But when an editor has tried to recruit writers and still has to beg for copy something is wrong. And as for the R Book and the Tomokan, the general public will have to rely Rollins is not lacking in talented, imaginative, and experienced journalists; on the reports of stray students if it asks about Rollins such questions as, "What is this can be proved by talking to the faculty. But what happens to these potential lit Fiesta," "How does the campus really look," and "Do you have sharp girls down erary geniuses ? Do they simply fall into the apathetic role of the average Rollins stu there." dent and never emerge again? Does this bother you, Rollins ? Have you ever stopped to think what your college The Publications Union is deeply concerned about this problem, and it does would be like without publications ? have some suggestions to make. First, in order to have publications of high quality, This is not a joke! It could happen. The fact is that every year the possibility the steadying influence of a journalism course is necessary. Without this bemefit, of losing the Sandspur, the Tomokan, the Flamingo, and the R Book comes a little editors can only pass on by word of mouth their accumulated experience and idiosyn closer to being a reality. Why? crasies. But the college authority apparently does not feel this lack, for it has taken The reason is fairly simple: The "Rollins family" simply does not care enough. no action on this suggestion, though it has been made many times before. It is obvious that when both editors of a publication are seniors, someone must The second suggestion is that Rollins offer, in connection with the journalism be available to replace them. But out of 76 names which the co-editor compiled of stu class, a publication scholarship. Under this arrangement, an entering student can dents who had had experience in publication, six came to express an interest in join work off some of his hours in publications, as otners now work them off in the bean ing the staff. There is no one who is qualified at this time to assume the editorship ery, the tennis courts, and in professors' offices. of the 1963 Tomokan. These are the only solutions which we have to offer at the present time. The The Sandspur finds itself in a similar though less critical condition. From a ultimate answer to this problem lies in the hands of the student body and the admin list of 80 entering men with some journalistic background, two came to the editor to istration, ^ijjfi The Rollins Sandspur Volume 67 Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, Friday, February 16, 1962 Number 14 'What Could The Future Be For Rollins?' Smathers, Bryant To Speak At Animag The theme of the Rollins 1962 Animated Magazine has been announced and will be carried out by a trio of distin guished speakers on Sunday, Feb. 25. Special guests at Animag are to be Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Associate Administrator of NASA; U. S. Senator George Smathers, and Florida's Governor Farris Bryant. They will discuss the topic, "What Could the Future Be For Rollins." Contributing also will be the following faculty members: Dr. Lyndon Johnson's absence. He was Dudley Degroot, Dr. Bruce Wav re-elected in 1956. ell, Dr. Dan Thomas, Dr. Charles In 1962, he was unanimously Welsh, and Dr. Herbert Hellwege. elected secretary of the Democra President McKean will moderate tic Conference of the 87th Con the discussion. gress in 1961. He consequently ite-. Dr. Seamans, who occupies the came a member of the Senate top career post at NASA, is re Democratic membership of various sponsible for general management Senate Committees. He was also of the agency's operations. His a member of the Democratic Poli duties there include supervising cy Committee of the Senate, which laboratories, l-esearch centers, shapes the Party's general policy rocket testing and launching fa on legislative matters. cilities, and a world network of Smathers has been closely as tracking stations. Previous to his sociated with efforts to better appointments as NASA, Seamans the U. S.'s relationship with Lat GOVERNOR FARRIS BRYANT SENATOR GEORGE SMATHERS was chief engineer of RCA's Elec in America. He proposed an infer- - tronics and Controls Division at American police force to preserve Burlington, Mass. peace in the western hemisphere Key Society Harvard granted the scientist and also recommended such pro Annual Shakespeareana his B. S. degree in 1939 and he grams as journalist-student ex went on to obtain his Master's and changes and long-range trade Doctor's degrees from MIT by programs. He is an advocate of a Taps Jane Ruble 1951. He has been active in the strong-arm-in-Cuba policy. fields of missile and aeronautics As chairmen of the Senate Sur To Be Held In Strong Hal Jane Ruble was the sole new since 1941. At MIT; he served in face Transportation committee, A quote from Shakespeare is novation to replace the nut-vendors member to be tapped by Rollins the department of Aeronautical Smathers conducted extensive the admission price to the 16th of Shakespeare's time who pro Key Society this term. The honor Engineering and was chief engin hearings on. the plight of the na annual Shakespeareana festival to vided the groundlings with this ary, the local equivalent of Phi eer of Project Meteor as well as tion's railroads. He was the auth- be held next Friday, February 23, all - purpose commodity which Beta Kappa has tile high require the director of the Flight Control (Continued on page 5) ments of an 11.0 average for six at 4 p.m. in the Strong Hall patio. served as ammunition in the event Lab. that a play was not well received. terms, one of which must be in In 1955 he joined RCA as mana Co-ordinated by Professor Nina the student's junior year. Oliver Dean, with the aid of her The Shakespeareana actors won't ger of the Airborne Systems Lab Shakespeare class and members of have to compete vocally with an and chief engineer of the Missile INSIDE Besides maintaining the high Electronics and Controls Division. the theatre arts department and undertone of nut-cracking! scholastic average prerequisite to the conservatory of music, the A flag will fly from the roof Until 1958 he served on technical THE 'SPUR tapping, Miss Ruble, a junior, has committees of NASA's predeces program consists of songs, scenes, of Strong Hall to signify that a been active in extra curricular sor organization, the National Ad sonnets and soliloquies of the play is in progress as a pennant activities, both on campus and off. Candidates Chosen Elizabethan Bard. in Elizabethan times was flown She is now president of the Inde visory Committee For Aeronau For Fiesta King The atmosphere corresponds in to announce that a play would be pendent Women, and has been tics. He has been a consultant to detail, as nearly as possible, with presented that day. secretary of the group for two the Scientific Advisory Board of And Queen the Air Force and a board member that of the dramatic performances At 4 p.m. sharp, trumpet calls years. Page 2 of Shakespeare's era. The Strong since 1959. will herald the beginning of the This is her sec Senator George Smathers, who Hall setting suggests the struc ond year as rep Libra Honors performance. is up for re-election to his post as ture of the Globe Theatre and Robert Chase and Eugene Miller, resentative to the Thirteen In Elizabethan inn yards in which Legislative Body the U.