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^) / / Read 'Feedback' ®lit3ilt$ttrn Carolinian "Voice of the Students" April Fool Edition VOL. XXVII, NO. 19 Friday, March 30, 1962 Cullowhee, N. C. WCC Host To District Science Fair For WNC High Schools 120 Entries In Senior And Junior Divisions Ten top senior winners in the District Science Fair for high schools in Western North Carolina were chosen here Saturday from among 120 entries in both senior and junior divisions. They will complete at the State Science Fair to be held in Chapel Hill April 6-7. Five winners were chosen from the two senior categories — physical and biological sciences. They are (listed with their schools and towns): Physical — Geoffrey Walker, Mebane Millender and Charles Millender, Lee Edwards, Asheville; Rodney Leftwich, Cullowhee, and Shirley Blankenship. Hayesville. Biological — Adelaide Clark, Charles D. Owen, Swannanoa; Kimberly Blakeney, Lee Edwards, Asheville; Bronwyn Kin- caid, St. Genevieve-of-the- Pines, Asheville; John Brook- shire, Hendersonville; and Margaret Pillow, Brevard. Junior Division winners were (in first, second and third places respectively): Physical — Don Kunze, David Millard Junior High, Asheville; James Lanz, Hendersonville High School; and Mike Sten- strom, Rosa Edwards Elementary School, Hendersonville. Biological — Ramsey Brea- zeale and Paul Groome, David uuu, Asheville, Juhnnj Young, Enka; and tied for third, Jane Hull and Linda Ray, Hall- Fletcher Junior High, Asheville. Professor Julian Hirt, district director of science fairs, said that there was a 20% increase (19 more exhibits) over the entries of 1960. A number of Western Carolina College alumni sponsored entries. They are, according to an unofficial list: Ruth Alexander, Howard Ar- rowood, Winfred Baker, Phil Croft, Fancy Funk, Christine Gilmore, Eleanor Mack, Bill McElrath, Louise McTaggert, Harris Pryor, Hugh Rayburn, Ruth Sursavage, Eugene Wal- droup, Boyce Whitmire, and Loren Ray, of McKee Training School. Judges were members of the Western Carolina College Science Department as follows: C. F. Dodson, F. A. Hodges, Louis W. Clark, W. Newton Turner, Dean L. Sinclair, and Mark Smith. Rains Bring Fallout From USSR Blast The rains of April and May should bring to earth some of the radioactive fallout from last fall's series of Russian nuclear tests. But the U. S. Public Health Service said it is unlikely that the fallout will create a public health menace. The settling of the fallout — a kind of stratospheric dust — will take several months. Some of it may not come down for years. The danger to human life comes from Strontium 90, which can cause cancer in the bones or leukemia. Fallout can be gauged by testing the Strontium 90 content in milk. Cut System Shifts To Students Toledo, Ohio (I. P.)—A new rule in effect for the current academic year at the University of Toledo has repealed the instructor's right to drop students for excessive absences. The responsibility has shifted to the student. Editor Selects New Staff John Streetman III, Acting Editor of The Western Carolinian, recently announced staff i.ypcintmcnts for this quarter. Retained are Roy Bemis as News Editor, Don Yarbrough, Feature Editor, and Howard Perkins, Cartoonist. Paul Jones was appointed Sports Editor to replace C. W. Hopper, who tendered his resignation at the end of winter quarter, and Robert J. Cable is the newly selected Layout Editor. Billie Jean Barnes will serve as the new copy editor. Weekly columns by Bill Shawn Smith, Bill Raoul, and John David Stovall, in addition to a bi-weekly jazz column entitled "Off Key" by Jac Murphy, will also appear in this quarter's issues. Ron Williamson continues as columnist. Regarding the new appointments, Streetman said, "It is our sincere wish to produce a publication that will include articles for readers of many varied interests — and one which will perhaps instruct as well as inform." Jim Cloninger, who was elected to the post of Business Manager last spring, still serves the newspaper in that capacity. Reporters for The Western Carolinian include Bob Davis, Roberta Morrow and Isaac Rose. Serving with Paul Jones on the sports staff are David Howell and Howard White. Continuing as feature writers for the newspaper are Joan Davis, Kay Carswell, Barbara Little Theatre Wins Top Honors In CD A Festival Since roll-taking is voluntary, and since the student has paid his tuition, he is permitted to exercise his right to attend or not attend classes at the University. L D. Hyde To Run Again Student Body President L. D. Hyde has officially announced that he will seek re-election next month. A native of Bryson City, Hyde was elected by an approximate 6-4 majority in the Spring 1961 campus elections. Regarding his announcement of candidacy, the 22-year old junior asserted: "I feel that I have gained valuable experience this year which can definitely be used to a advantage for the student body. "During this year we have begun some projects which I would be a progressive step for the student body if we could succeed in getting a cut system through which class attendance would be left to the individual student's own prerogative. If a person can pass, why should he be limited to two or three cuts?" The Student Body head concluded by noting that there are individual rights which the serious students should not be deprived of because of the action of a few. Cops On Ca- Det System More than a dozen American cities have adopted the British system of "cadet" trainees for police departments. The cadets work part-time as apprentice cops. They neither carry weapons nor make arrests, but they do get a chance to test their liking for police work. Among major cities using the system are New York, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Pasadena. St. Daivd's New Priest Assumes Duties Sunday PICTURED ABOVE IS RODNEY LEFTWICH, CULLO- whee High School student, who received honors for his display in the Physical Science category. Hegwood Merits Fellowship To Vandy For Summer St. David's Episcopal Student Center has a new priest-in- charge beginning this weekend. He is the Reverend Jesse Spur- geon Sparks, Jr., who comes to St. David's from Rockingham, where he has served as rector of the Church of the Messiah since May 1960. The Reverend Mr. Sparks will hold his first Morning Prayer service at St. David's on Sunday, April 1, at 9 a.m., and his first Evening Prayer service at Dr. Muriel Porter Hegwood, member of the science faculty at Western Carolina College, has been awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship for a six-weeks summer institute at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. She will study evaluation of vascular plants from June 18 through July 24. Only fifty science professors were chosen for this institute from the hundreds who applied. Before joining WCC's staff last September, Dr. Hegwood had spent the previous year on research in plant pathology at North Carolina State College under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. A native of Radford, Virginia, she holds the bachelor of science degree in biology from Radford College, the master of science in botany from the University of Linville, Reginald McLelland and Mary Ann Olson. Veteran photographers for The Western Carolinian are William Gerald Smith and Eddy Thornburg. French Plan To Orbit Cat And Rat The French have tentatively planned to orbit a rat and a cat into space soon in a wide ranging research program aimed at making France a major space power. With the major goal of having a satellite in orbit around the earth and moon within two years, the French have designed their program to "develop more powerful propulsion systems to make wide and more comprehensive studies in space," says Professor Pierre Auger, chairman of the French National Center for Space Studies. The program includes experiments in space biology and research on the earth's crust. Scientists are working on observing the sun and interplanetary space forms, particularly Venus, and the ionosphere and the very high atmosphere. First to go up this year will be the rat, by the end of this month or early next month. It will be launched at the French rocket range at Ham- aguir in the heart of the Sahara Desert to a height of some 125 miles for biological tests. The cat will follow in the fall. French astronomer Dr. Audo- in Dolfus will attempt to go up more than 88,000 feet between May 1 and June 15 to study Virginia, and the doctor of philosophy in horticulture from Rutgers University. At Western Carolina College, Dr. Hegwood has taught vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and microbiology. Rev. Jesse Sparks, Jr. 6:30 p.m. Since the departure of the Rev. Robin Johnson in January, Episcopal ministers throughout Western North Carolina have conducted the Wednesday morning Communion services at the student center. Lay readers, in cluding WCC faculty members Dr. D. C. Sossomon, Dr. James H. Horton, Mr. William Paulk, Mr. David Purser, and Mr. Paul Tuttrup, have led Morning Prayer. The new priest-in-charge received his Graduate in Divinity degree from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and was ordained in 1959. A native Of Bath, North Carolina, Mr. Sparks also attended Porter Military Academy and the College of Charleston, both in Charleston, South Carolina. While in college, Mr. Sparks seived as president of his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi. He has taught in summer camps, and in 1956 he served as a student missionary in Cuba. Last summer Mr. Sparks visited churches throughout Europe. Mr. Sparks and his recent bride, the former Miss Kay Strickland of Columbia, South Carolina, will reside in Sylva. Paulk, Buff, And Grant Cop Honors For "Inside Out' The Little Theatre emerged with top honors Saturday March 24 as nine one-act plays competed in the District Drama Festival. The Little Theatre earned the only distinguished rating of the festival with its presentation of INSIDE OUT, an adaption of a short story by William Paulk, WCC English professor. The play was directed by Harry Sandlin of l// the WCC Lab Theatre, under the direction of Dick King; Bertha, the Bartender's Beautiful Baby by the Asheville Country Day School Drama Group, under the direction of Jim Hamilton; Beauty Parade by the Asheville Country Day School Thespians, under the direction of Jim Hamilton; and The Bespoke Overcoat by the WCC Theater, under the direction of Joseph Walker. Given a creditable rating were Robinson Gets 3 0 Men InFirst Day Of Practice An estimated thirty men reported to Head Coach Dan Robinson this past Friday (March 16) to open five weeks of Spring football drills. Robinson reported that he would hold drills every afternoon except Saturday and Sunday from 3:45 to 5:30 p.m., and that the workouts would run from Friday, March 16, to Thursday, April 19. Of the 30 boys out for spring practice, the head mentor stated that he had 14 lettermen returning from last year's squad. Commenting on the team thus far, Robinson said that his backfield looks good but that his big problem is the line. He stat- Venus in a sealed magnesium alloy gondola hauled by 24 balloons. France is cooperating with Britain and West Germany in a European satellite launching project, the European Launcher Development Organization. Plans are to use a British rocket as the first stage, the French Diamond III as the second, and a West German missile as the final stage to orbit a satellite from the Woomera range in Australia in 1965. France is also a member of the 12-nation European Space Research Organization. Plans for the next eight years for this group include experiments with light and heavy satellites orbiting the earth and moon. USPO Runs On 850 Million Per Year The United States Post Office is running a deficit of $850 million a year. Of that sum, an estimated $400 million represent services which should properly be born by all taxpayers instead of by mail users alone. Included are such services as issuance by the Post Office of migratory bird stamps and of forms for the Census Bureau and the Peace Corps. ed that he would have one good line but after that he would have to rely entirely on freshmen. In other words, he would have depth in the backfield but would be lacking in this department on the forward wall. Heading the returnees in the Catamount backfield will be Ken Morgan, Larry Thomas, Lew Bost and Donnie Henderson. On the line Frank Stankunas, Steve Paduhovich and Matt Lawson will lead the returning lettermen. 1962 Football Schedule September— 15—Carson Newman—Asheville 22—Appalachian — Asheville 29—Guildford — Cullowhee October— 6—Catawba — Salisbury 13—East Carolina — Cullowhee 20—Lenoir Rhyne — Hickory 27—Elon — Cullowhee November— 3—Emory & Henry — Emory, Va. 10—Newberry—Newberry, S. C. Tennis Schedule April— 3- 4—High Point — High Point 11—Appalachian — Boone 14—Appalachian — Cullowhee 27-28—Elon — Cullowhee May— 4- 5—Pfeiffer — Pfeiffer 7- 8—Carolinas Tennis Tournament — Wilson, N. C. News Briefs After returning to Chapel Hill with the results of the District Drama Festival at WCC, The Carolina Drama Association of Judges invited Miss Josefina Niggli to bring William Paulk's play INSIDE OUT as well as her own play TOOTH OR SHAVE to the State Festival. To be held at the University of North Carolina in April, the Festival will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the CDA. Two Students Receive Grants Two WCC students have received teaching assistanship grants to be used for graduate study. Linda Roane, a senior biology major from Union Mills, received a $2,000 grant to continue her study at the University of North Carolina. Linda, who is presently doing her student teaching at Enka High School, will serve as a gradate assistant in botany. Consistently on the honor roll, Linda has also made Alpha Phi Sigma, the Dean's List and was on Who's Who last fall. She is also president of this HARRY SANDLIN, WILLIAM PAULK, AND WHEELER Buff (L to R) discussing their winning play at the Carolina's Drama Festival District banquet at the Jarrett House. the British Government to provide facilities for England's rapidly growing number of qualified university candidates. The location of the fourth will be announced during the summer. This brings the number of planned new universities in England up to seven, the others being already under construction in Sussex (Brighton), Norwich and York. Old Fort, N. C. Individual distinguished ratings went to Wheeler Buff and Evelyn Grant of the Inside Out cast and to William Shawn Smith of The Bespoke Overcoat. Productions receiving a rating of excellent were The Lark by WCC's Studio Theatre, under the direction of William Shawn Smith; Theater of the Soul by A nationwide search for the "All-American Coed" is being sponsored by the Fiesta of Five Flags Association in Pensacola, Florida. The annual contest will be held in Pensacola from June 6- 10 at the annual Festival of Five Flags celebrating 403 years of the colorful history of the city. A woman from the ages 18 to 26, and unmarried, will be chosen on the basis of intelligence, beauty, personality, poise, and talent. But she must be a student of an accredited college or university. The winner will share in scholarships or savings bonds totaling $5,000 and will receive an all-expense paid vacation to Hollywood, California, where she will appear with Jackie Cooper in the Hennesey television series. For further information contact The Western Carolinian. Coventry, Colchester and Canterbury will be the sites of three new universities established by Mr. Max Eury, Student Director, reminds students not to litter the floors of Joyner building with trash and cigarettes. Students using Joyner's facilities are also asked to rearrange chairs and tables before leaving the club room. Various social activities are being sponsored by the Union this quarter, including a coffee hour in the club room every Wednesday evening, and an informal dance with re- reshments every Saturday evening. Pictures for student identification cards will be taken April 4 from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. year's science cTub. Sam Honeycutt, a senior chemistry major from Tucka- seigee, received a $1,950 grant to begin graduate study at Clemson College next fall. The grant, which Sam will use to work on his Ph.D. in chemistry, is renewable from year to year. A member of the student chapter of the American Chemical Society, Sam has been listed on Alpha honor roll five times and has made the Dean's List for the last two quarters. Jack or the Submission by the Montreat College Thalians, under the direction of A. K. Cates; Magnolia's Man by the Swangle- tree Players of Pilot Mountain, under the direction of Otis Carroll; and Everyman by Mars Hill College, under the direction of Glenn L. Vernon. Miss Josefina Niggli, drama director at WCC and president of the Carolina Dramatic Association, was in charge of the arrangements for the Festival. This year marks the 40th anniversary celebration of the Carolina Drama Association, which sponsors the event. All final ratings are to be given at the district level when the statewide festival is held at Chapel Hill in April. Judges were Tom Patterson of Chapel Hill; Gary Carden of Cartersville, Ga., and Miss Floyd Chiles of LaGrange, Ga. Two Students Injured In Wreck Last Friday TKE Cops Stereo Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity captured top honors in the Philip Morris Pack Saving Contest last Tuesday. C. R. Nifong, a division manager for the cigarette company, presented a Webcor sterophonic record player to the winning group which had collected appromixately 46,- 000 points. Delta Sigma Phi fraternity received a Philco radio for accumulating 39,000 points in the competition. According to Nifong, the company has tentatively planned to run similar contests during the next college year. IA Confab To Be Held aturday The North Carolina Council on Industrial Arts Education will meet here Saturday, according to Dr. Rodney Leftwich, head of the Industrial Arts department. The first session, which will begin at 9 a.m. in the faculty lounge, will be a panel discus James Harrison Carpenter, a Freshman from Charlotte, was critically injured on U. S. 441 near Dillsboro when the car that he was driving, a '60 model Triumph TR 3 owned by Robert Kelly, a student at WCC, skidded on a curve and went out of control Friday night. Carpenter, who suffered severe head and internal injuries, was reported to be improving on Tuesday evening, although his condition is still critical. He was sent to Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville after the wreck. Lonnie Harris, a WCC student from Hendersonville and former Sports Editor of The Western Carolinian, received multiple bruises, and a sprained ankle. sion on the philosophy of industrial arts education. The afternoon session will be a discussion of ways to implement industrial arts programs to meet the recommended certification requirements for industrial arts teachers. Panel members will be representatives from East Carolina College, Appalachian State Teachers College, N. C. State College and Western Carolina College. Guests of the Council will be Carroll Smith, state supervisor of industrial arts, and Dr. Paul A. Reid, President of Western Carolina College.

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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