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Rollman Asks For Apology From Reid ffilitjtltj&ttrn Carolinian "Voice of the Students" Catamounts Lose Again VOL. XXVI, NO. 6 Friday, October 14, 1960 Cullowhee, N. C. Heinz Rollman Charges YDC With Harassment To Assist Mrs. Hirt Jane Blankenship Elected To Office Of Publicity Director Miss Jane Blankenship, feature editor of this newspaper, has been elected to the office of Student Publicity Director. Jane defeated Julie Godwin and L. D. Hyde in a campus-wide election held in conjunction with the May Court election, Wednesday, October 5. The election was held in conformity with Pre-Session Conference recommendation number 2, which states in part: "That a Student Publicity Director ... be elected in a general election in order to create more effective school spirit and greater participation among students." Jane will be working through Mrs. Hirt, the College Publicity Director, and will be in charge of all campus-wide publicity for visiting celebraties, various student activities and so on. There will be a bulletin board placed in the cafeteria for the purpose NewMembers Skillman Elected To Of HSSC of informing the students through advertisement of coming events. This election is a followup of Jane's appointment as assistant to the publicity director. She is presently originating and writing many of the feature and news stories appearing in The Asheville Citizen concerning WCC and her people and plans. A 19-year-old junior from Spindale, Jane is a member of the Debating Team, the Student English Seminar, Sigma Kappa Sorority and the Greek Council. When asked to comment on her election, Jane laughed, "I am sure I will like the job fine as soon as someone discovers what I am supposed to do. So far, I haven't been able to find out. Even Gurney Chambers, the one who told me I was running, doesn't know." Greeks Accept 28 Pledges The Greek organizations on the campus of Western Carolina College have grown to a great extent since their formation in 1957 and 1958. Two fraternities were established in 1957 and two sororities and a fraternity ly 1958 Since that time they have progressed in a steady climb, and on Wednesday, September 28, the bids put in for sororities and fraternities numbered 28. Of these 28 bids which were put in to the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men, 19 were accepted by the sororities and the fraternities with the approval of both Deans. Only one sorority rushed this quarter, and that was Theta Upsilon. The girls who pledged Theta U and were accepted are Nancy Mills, Mary Welte, Judy Hamilton, Carolyn Herman, Sylvia Smith and Jeanne Crawford. The men who pledged Delta Sigma Phi this quarter are Ray Haney, Everett Kendall, Charlie McGinnis, Bruce Peterson, Tom Brooks, Mark Hull, Rodney Harrill, Hal Sain and Rupert Bowen. Pledging Tau Kappa Epsilon for the fall quarter were Benny Johnson, Buford Turner, Sam Ray and Ike Royal. Homecoming 1960 The Homecoming Committee met in the lobby of the new Administration Building on September 12 at 7:30 p.m. The main topic of discussion centered generally around the aspects of the Homecoming schedule. The date for Homecoming was set for October 29, and this year's theme will be "Football, Mountain Style." The 26th Pre-Session Conference recommendation that "clubs be urged to bring our homecoming back to our home in Cullowhee and that each club be assigned an individual tract of land on campus on which to present original decorations, rather than building floats to take to Sylva" was passed by the Homecoming Committee at this meeting. The schedule of events for Homecoming is as follows: 10:30-12—Open House in the dormitories and Student Union. 10-12—Registration, Hunter Library. 11-1—Fall Meeting of Board of Trustees. 12-1—Lunch. 1:30—Motorcade (on campus). 3:00—Dedication of new Administration Building (Hoey Auditorium). 3:30-4:30—Open House in the new Administration Euiiding. 4:00—Alpha Phi Sigma Tea for Alumni and Guests. (New Administration Building.) 4:30—Alumni Mass Meeting and Election of Officers (Hoey Auditorium). 5:30—Barbecue for Alumni and Guests (Brown Cafeteria). 7:45—Crowning of Homecoming Queen and Presentation of her Court (Memorial Stadium). 8:00—Football Game, WCC vs Elon (Memorial Stadium). 10-12—Informal Dance, Gallery of Hunter Library and Breese Gymnasium (sponsored by the Marshal's Club). The Student Senate has appointed new members to the Health, Safety and Security Commit Eleanor Marshall. Tewannah Bradley, Fred Arrowood and Wayne Culp. These members are placed on the commit! the benefit of the students. If you have a problem that requires the attention of the Committee, please see one of those representatives. The "Ambu," new respiratory unit of the college, pictured In last week's Western Carolinian, is now located in the college infirmary in case of emergency. A lingering problem on the WCC campus is that of students walking in the roads, especially to the "chow hall" and post office. The Health, Safety and Security Committee deems this a very serious problem. It feels that the students would be startled if cars drove on the sidewalk. Please use the sidewalks. They were put there for that purpose. Dr. Newton Turner is in the process of drawing up maps for parking facilities for each building on campus. State YRC Office 'ing in Chapel Hill on October 1, the annual convention of the Young Republican's Club elected Ben Skillman, chairman of the WCC Young Republican's Club, treasurer of the North Carolina Federation of the Young Republican's College Council, it was reported here this week. Skillman is a senior, concentrating in business education. David L. Morton, chairman of the Federation, placed Skill- man's name in nomination. Skillmanj who had a letter published in the October 15th issue of The Saturday Evening Post in which he praised that magazine for its endorsement of Nixon, graduated from Mars Hill College in 1959. Previously, he put in a tour of duty with the US Air Force. Married to the former Miss Nancy Murry of Asheville (now a secretary at Mead Corporation in Sylva), Skillman is a day student representative to the Student Senate, a member of the NEA and SAM, a member of the Jackson County Junior Chamber of Commerce, and a member of Pi Omega Pi, a national business education honor fraternity. Aside from teaching a class of nine year olds at Sylva Baptist Church, Skillman says he has no outside interests. As he says, "When you are in school and are married, you don't have time for outside activity interests." Skillman reports that the Y- RC has provided radio station WWOO with $15 to help defray the cost of broadcasting this week's footabll game at East Carolina College back to the students at WCC. Attorneys General May Investigate re the Progress On Recommendations HSER Report Last week end, 29 yearbooks and 19 newspapers were entered in competition at the ninth annual High School Editor's Roundtable. Among the list of winners in the yearbook divisions are Brevard High School, first place in Division I; Franklin High School, which captured first place in Division II; and Pleasant Gardens High School, which took the number one spot in Division III. In the printed newspaper category, The Broadcaster from Brevard won first place, and St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines' entry, The Victorette, took second place. Mimeographed newspapers were also judged, and Franklin's The Mountain Echo carried off top honors. During the conference, officers for the coming year were elected as follows: Peter Best, Brevard, president; Lucille Shelton, Mars Hill, vice-president; Keith Hampton, Canton, editor; and Betsy Westmoreland, Glenwood, assistant editor. Mrs. Lillian Hirt, director for the Roundtable, expressed her deep appreciation to all local students who served on the various committees for the conference and to everyone who provided accommodations for the guests. By Gurney Chambers As of this writing, nine of the 12 Pre-Session Conference recommendations, approved by you, the students, have been carried out or are in the process of becoming reality. Those recommendations concerning assembly programs, department receptions, Student Publicity Director and Homecoming have definitely met with the approval of all concerned. Committees have been appointed to work on the recommendations concerning the formation of a House of Representatives, and recreation facilities on and near the campus; therefore, it will be only a week or so until these are also carried out. Other recommendations which will definitely be carried out are those concerning the procedure in selecting the most outstanding freshman, the presenting of awards to the most active club in the professional, social and service fields, and the election of freshmen class officers during the latter part of the quarter. Of course, these cannot be carried out until the proper time. The recommendations concerning the non-voting power of the social deans on the Student-Faulty Judiciary Committee and a student appearing before the SFJC having the right to choose a counselor to advise him before and during the meeting are the only two rec- omendations which have a chance of failing. However, there is every reason to believe that these will also be put into effect soon. The Pre-Session Conference will be considered a successful one only after every recommendation has become a reality or after investigation has shown that it is neither feasible nor best to see them all put into action. APPROPRIATIONS ANNOUNCED Releasing tentative figures here two weeks ago, the Student Appropriations Committee leased official figures this week amid a minor bombshell caused by cutting $600 off e Citdstropiic, W< literary magazine. This cut, leaving Catastrophe $100, amounted to killing that magazine. With the Business Manager of the college, the Dean of Women and the Personnel Director as advisors, the committee consisted of Tom Higdon, Marie Pearce, Gurney Chambers, Mike Bowen, Wes Pierce and Rupert Bowen. The appropriations are: TOTAL ESTIMATED COLLECTIONS (1300 ENrollment) $ 78,000 AMOUNTS SET BY ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION: Athletics (1300 x $6 x 3) $ 23,400 • Gym Fee (1300 x $2 x 3) 7,800 Special (1300 x $2 x 3) 7,800 Lyceum, Lectures, Commencement Speakers 6,000 Salary—Student Union Director 3,288 48,288 Like Poetry? Write Some! The American College Poetry Society has announced that its fourth semester anthology of outstanding college poetry is now being compiled for publication early next year. Contributions must be original work of the student (who shall retain literary rights to the material), and must be submitted to Alan C. Fox, Executive Secretary, American Poetry Society, Box 24463, Los Angeles 24, Calif. The entrant is required to put his name, address and" school on each page of the material submitted. Poems, which may deal with any subject, may not exceed 48 lines, nor may any individual submit more than five poems. Entries which are not accepted for publication will be returned if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope, but they cannot be otherwise acknowledged, nor can the Society compensate students for poetry which is not published. All entries must be postmarked not later than midnight, December 9, 1960, to be considered, and the decisions of the Society judges are final. Bulletin There will be a meeting of all boys interested in playing Freshman or J.V. basketball October 17th in room 22 of Reid Gym. All interested persons will be required to bring a letter from a> physician stating that they are physically able to participate in college basketball. SUB-TOTAL Printing student Handbook 400 TO BE ALLOTTED BY COMMITTEE Function; Organization Amt. Rcvd. Last Year Requested The Catamount 6,849 $9,720 Western Carolinian 5,640 6,815 Men's House Govt. 400 650 Women's House Govt. 530 655 Day Student Govt. 350 Chorus 1,695 1,900 Band 1,450 2,000 SNE Association 150 610 Little Theatre 900 1,865 Science Club 295 340 Asso. Childhood Education 75 75 International Relations Club 250 350 Alpha Phi Sigma 30 Marshal's Club 400 Inter-Faith Council 600 Music Educators Natl. Conference 35 35 Cheerleaders 400 645 SAM 350 545 Radio Club 772 1,158 Physical Education Club 176 265 Fine & Industrial Arts Club 155 275 Women's Athletic Asso. 125 180 Student Union 1,602 Home Economics Club 50 103 Chemical Society 60 100 Cenacle Du Gilet Rouge 200 Catastrophe 700 800 Senate Forensic Club 300 Pi Omega Pi Chartered Buses to Asheville 29,712 400 29,312 Appropriated $8,520 6,400 550 600 400 1,700 1,450 150 1,200 160 75 250 30 400 600 35 645 300 800 175 150 125 2,000 75 60 100 988.20 75 25 1,303.80 Heinz Rollman, Republican candidate for Congress from the 12th District, lashed out against the WCC Young Democrats Club last week, and that President Paul A. Reid apologize for the behavior of some 50 students who, Rollman said, accused him of being communist, insulted his religion, and attempted to run him off the highway between Cullowhee and Sylva. The incident occurred after Rollman had spoken to about 50 students in the Student Union Building on October 6. Charlie Smith, president of the local Young Democrats Club, denied the charges in a YDC meeting here Monday night, and stated that he had written a letter to Rollman demanding an apology to the Western Carolina YDC. "I think it was a cheap publicity stunt, and I challenge Rollman or anyone to prove these charges brought against us," Smith said. Rollman requested the apology from President Reid in a letter which appears in full on the editorial page. Rollman reported that he had, sent copies of the letter to the Attorneys General of the United States and North Carolina, and that 2,000 copies of the letter had been sent to WCC for distribution. At a press conference in Waynesville Saturday night, Rollman made public a copy of the letter, parts of which were printed in Sunday's Asheville Citizen-Times. Dr. Reid was quoted as saying, "I am surprised to learn that a press conference has been held off campus concerning a matter which allegedly involves our students. If such a conference has been held without first giving the college a chance to make a thorough investigation, then it is an unfortunate procedure." In a separate letter to Ben Skillman, president of the local Young Republican's Club, Roll- man accused the young democrats of making "a circus out of politics," and stated that "It has been mentioned to me by quite a few members of your group that they will be discriminated against in their grades on account of your Republican activities. I hope that this is not so . . ." YDC President Smith reported that there was no profanity used on campus, and stated that the demonstration "was not a called meeting of the Young Democrats Club although about 45 per cent of the assembled crowd were members of the YDC, which is normal, since one third of the campus belongs to Heinz Rollman the YDC." Smith said that "we had people in authority who saw the demonstration on campus and in Sylva, and we challenge Mr. Rollman to prove any of his charges. "Even if these things had happened, a man with any integrity would not have blasted loose at a state supported school in an effort to hurt it when only a small fraction of the students were even present," Smith said. "If this had happened," he stated, "rather than hurt the school, he could have settled it through the administration. In my estimation, this is smallness on his part, and I certainly do not want him representing the 12th District in Congress." Various administrative personnel are presently investigating the incident. Rollman's Speech Senior Superlatives Announced Nominations for senior superlatives were made at the first senior class meeting this year. The election was held the following week, and these are the people selected by the senior class to bear these superlatives: Most Beautiful: Love Brendle, English and Social Science major from Sylva. Best Looking: Tom Viceroy, Art major from Morehead City. Best All Around Girl: Joan Edwards, Home Economics major from Harris. Best All Around Boy: Gurney Chambers, Business Education major from North Wilkesboro. Best Dressed Girl: Wilma Cooper, Elementary Education major from Robbinsville. Best Dressed Boy: Fred Ros enkampff, Business major from Hendersonville. Wittiest Girl: Martha Mc- Kaughn, Chemistry and Math major from Big Stone Gap, Va. Wittiest Boy: Dusty Medlin, Business major from Monroe. Most School Spirit, Girl: Barbara (Chid) Carswell, Health and Physical Education major from Canton. Most School Spirit, Boy: Phil Royal, English and Spanish major from Mayodan. Girl Most Likely To Succeed: Linda Polk, English major from Indian Trail. Boy Most Likely To Succeed: Wes Pierce, English and History major from Monroe. Most Talented Girl: Susie West, Music and Social Science major from Asheville. Most Talented Boy: Tom Higdon, Math and Art major from Franklin. Most Courteous Girl: Mary Welte, Elementary Education major from Canton. Most Courteous Boy: Danny Sells, Business major from Charlotte. Most Intellectual Girl: Mysa Crawford Matthews, Chemistry and Math major from Franklin. Most Intellectual Boy: A. L. Matthews, Chemistry and Math major from Clyde. Best Personality (G^rl): Ginger Crawford, Elemenvary Education major from Old Fort. Best Personality (Boy): Charles Pless, Biological Science ma- Contlnusd on pag« 4 Speaking to approximately 50 people here last Thursday night in the basement of the Student Union, Heinz Rollman, Republican candidate for the House of Representatives from the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina, spoke out against the Democrat machine in this state and answered many questions, including why he left the Democrats and joined hands with the Republican party in 1958. Rollman stated that he had invited Roy A. Taylor, his Democratic opposition, to travel through the district and to debate on the courthouse steps of each county. "This would add something to democracy," Roll- man asserted, "but I never heard from Taylor on that issue." Rollman, who left the Democratic party in 1958, then said that lie "would never have anything to do with building a party organization." Noting the dismal international scene, Rollman said that neither the Democratic party nor the Republican party alone is responsible for the Castro situation in Cuba or Russia's power, but Congress. Asked why he left the Democratic party, Rollman said that he lost in 1958 because the people did not know that Shuford was sick. A committee appointed a candidate who was baeked by the machine to represent this district. "No candidate has ever won who did not belong to the machine," Rollman stated. The big reason for his change-over, Rollman said, is that he believes Nixon and the Republican party can halt inflation. Rollman asserted that he wants to serve in Congress because he felt it was his duty. Coming to this country without a nickel, he now lives in affluence with three adopted children. Instead of resorting to conspicuous consumption, he said, he preferred to spend his time and his money working for the American people. "I feel that those who think they can serve effectively should- do that," the Republican nominee asserted. In response to a question as to what he felt was the key issue of this election, Rollman replied "Peace on earth." People may not talk about it, he said, but that's the real issue. Concerning socialism in the US, Rollman did not think we were anywhere close to having that system in this country. "What is your stand on civil rights?" the reporter asked. Mr. Rollman s^id, "It must be terribly uncomfortable to be a Negro in any part of the US." Then he went on to say that he would give minorities equal but separate facilities. "Most people are happier if they are just left alone, provided they have equal opportunities," he said. To raise the per capita income In this district, Rollman said that he would encourage the tourist industry and heavy industry.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1960-10-14;
  • Date digitized: 2017-09-25
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  • Pages: 4 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1960-10-14_Vol26_No06
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library