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Dorm Hostesses Relate Funny And Weird Tales Wild stories and opinions of life at WCC in the men's dorms appear regularly and distorted to fit the occasions. When the real story is needed, the host and hostesses of the male quarters can truthfully relate their humorous, strange, and weird tales. They may vary from students burning to death to hanging cats in closets. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ray, host and hostess of Madison dorm, are experiencing their first year in this capacity. Early in fall quarter Madison dorm was involved In a big mystery. Mrs. Ray said that her husband went to investigate some loud guitar playing. In about half an hour Mr. Ray hadn't returned and the music was still blaring. He had been detained by a mysterious "phantom" on the floor that somehow managed to trip all that passed by. When Mr. Ray finally located the prankster in the elevator shaft, he had escaped through another floor before the key to open the shaft was found. Meanwhile, the music was still going strong, from the area down near the steam plant. The "musicians" had moved down there when they found that Mr. Ray was looking for them. By the time everything had quieted down, it was close to 1 ajn. Mr. Ray added that the "phantom" had made only one appearance so far this year. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hicks, host and hostess of Robertson dorm, have the problem of keeping the building under control as well as the boys. The building is filled to capacity, and it doesn't look as if it will be any better next quarter, Mrs. Hicks explained. "At this moment, plumbing is the biggest problem. The other day a boy flushed the toliet and steam came rushing from it. Lately, there has been a scarcity of hot water, and when there is some, it may be running from a cold faucet. Or a boy may adjust his shower only to find when he steps into it there is nothing but cold water. The steam plant is being patient and helping us the best way they can." A fire drill system is being developed in Robertson. The bells ring in terms of codes as to which of the staircases is blocked by the "fire." During one of the drills the South stairway was the blocked one, but about 20 boys came running down it. There is a joke who got "burned" at the last fire drill. "I'm the veteran hostess of the men's dorms," Mrs. Hicks said, "and all the new ones come to ask me exactly what they have to do. Actually, any conscientious moron can do the job. Take for example the times we get the baby In the tub with soap in her hair, and there is a knock on the door. That's a problem. But we are on duty or call most all of the time." The biggest complaint in Robertson is my inspection of the closets, she says. "I consider health, hygiene, and safety in my inspections, and the closet can be a real hazard. I had one boy who just couldn't see it my way. One day his room was spotless. When I opened the closet door, it was stripped of all clothing. In the very middle was hanging a dead cat with a sign that read, 'Are you satisfied now?' I never let the boy know I found the cat, and I imagine that made him as mad as ever." "Another boy wired his doorknob with a bell and shock sys- ^iwjoftik lije e/a MM . s it possible that every child can be bom into this world free from physical or mental defects? Is it possible that there can be a cure or a preventive for arthritis, an affliction which has plagued people of all ages since the dawn of mankind? These two questions—which concern every family everywhere —are the prime challenges of research supported by your March of Dimes . . . research which already has produced two polio vaccines and two Nobel prize*. The answers will not be found for some time. To help speed the quest, The National Foundation-March of Dimes finances a nationwide, multimillion dollar research program and helps sup- 'port the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, Calif., where world-renowned scientists will study and work together to •olve the most fundamental problems in the life sciences. Until these problems are solved, your March of Dimes must devote millions of dollars each year to saving lives and alleviating suffering—helping patients afflicted with birth defects, '•rthritis and polio through direct aid as well as a rapidly expand- jing nationwide network of study and treatment centers which 'provide the best, most modem medical care possible. m THE MARCH OF DIMES 'POLIO-BIRTH DEFECTS "ARTHRITIS aho THE &ALKt&EB$i INSTITUTE tern to play a trick on his new roommate, but I got the treatment when I went to check the room." Overall, she agreed the conduct was not too extremely bad. Mrs. Hicks used this opportunity to express an opinion. "The Men's House Government needs to be stronger with more prestige for the counselors and members. It needs to be represented by more responsible and mature students." The Herbert Pendergrafts and Dan Wells share the duties in Reynolds dorm. This is the first year for the Wells, but they were well informed a- bout the situation by the Pendergrafts who have served in this capacity for several years. They explained how the dorm is a lot quieter this year than it has been before. "There is just a little noise, especially a- round 11:30 p.m. But there have been no firecrackers that we know of." Mrs. Wells says the only specific noise of any consistency is the moose horn of one of the fraternities. "The first time I heard it I thought it was a train coming down the hall." A few students were frightened during the preparation of a homecoming display. They were using paint cleaner from a Coke bottle, and someone accidentally drank part of it thinking it was water. After the victim had recovered In the infirmary, he said he had slept well, and the paint cleaner was evidentally what he needed. Mr. and Mrs. Max Eury have been keeping things under control in Buchanan dorm for several years. They have experienced the usual problems, but none that can't be overcome. Because it is a freshman dorm, things are a little harder to control at the beginning of the year. Mr. Eury says the walls are always a factor in the noise situation. But there have been no serious problems, and "they are doing a lot better," he explained. THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Friday, February 15, 1963 Recognize This Man? Smithsonian To Display Mrs. Kennedy's Gown The inaugural ball gown of Mrs. John F. Kennedy will go on display next week at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington. The unveiling ceremony will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Smithsonian's First Lady gown collection. The white silk gown will be displayed on a manikin in a glass case in the same room with gowns of the late Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. \ ENSLEY'S SUPER MARKET Fresh Meat & Produce Fancy Foods Frozen Foods Dry Goods and Notions WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS Located at Intersection of Waynesville and Cullowhee Hi-Way All those who are contented with this life pass like a shadow and a dream, or wither like the flower of the field. —Cervantes DO YOU KNOW HIS NAME? IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN to the laundry, he probably knows yours. Pictured in a familiar pose—getting a student's laundry—is Charles Daves. For many years he has been a 'fmarvel" to the students and faculty alike because of his phenomenal memory for names. The CAROLINIAN takes great pleasure In Introducing him, by name, to the student body, whose names he already knows. (Photo by Quarles) Franklin-Marshall Starts College Scholar Program Lancaster, Pa.— (I. P.)—A special experimental program for the handling of superior students will start next month at Franklin and Marshall College, and will involve approximately twenty carefully selected mem bers of the freshmen class. To be called the "College Scholar Program," the new experiment will follow similar programs now in operation at Princeton and other leading colleges and universities. Three full-time members of the Franklin and Marshall faculty will supervise the program. A team of four faculty members finalized the program during the past summer at the Dan- forth Conference on Liberal Education at Colorado College. The twenty selected freshmen will be freed from all rsgular curricular requirements, accord ing to Dean G. Wayne Click. They will not be required to take the usual "distribution" requirements taken by othar students, but will choose advanced courses in consultation with the College Scholar Program's advisors and departmental chairmen. The students will work closely together in a special seminar each year, staffed by at least two professors from different departments. Over a four-year period the College Scholars will thus be introduced to major problems in human knowledge past and present, scientific and humanistic, of individual and social significance. A special headquarters for this seminar will be established on campus, to be closed to all other students. PICTURED ABOVE IS SUSAN TODD, Miss Western Carolina College for 1962-63, as she will appear in an informal pose in the forth coming edition of the CATAMOUNT. Editor Ted Home announces that, with the exception of a few minor details—in cluding the possibility of the basketball team going to Kansas—the 295- page yearbook has been completed, and will go to press on February 15 as scheduled. The publication will include 32 color shots of campus life. (Photo by 8mlth) The Geography Of Romance And You Think Is Courtship Complicated At WCC? Who are the most ardently pursued girls in the world? Prime contenders are the coy Kirghiz maidens of Central Asia who get a novel kind of rush from their swains. When it's time for a girl to be married, she mounts a horse and gallops away from her suitors, who follow on horseback. If she's a skilled equestrienne, she sees to it that she's caught by the man of her choice. At the other extreme, the tribal men of New Guinea just sit back and wait — confident that sooner or later a go-between will arrive with a love message from an eligible young lady. Only then does the courtship begin for this culture considers it unmanly for a man to take the initiative In matters of the heart. Obviously, Cupid needs ingenuity to adapt his aims to such widely differing customs. In one West African tribe, for example, he'd be wide of the mark if he tried to make a man's heart beat faster at the sight of a slim young thing. Here the fat girl is Queen of Hearts. Young women are placed in special "fattening huts" until their names (and frames) can carry some weight in the marriage market. Love tokens and symbols also vary in fascinating ways. For centuries the magnet has been the symbol of love in France. Not all lovers have played fair and normal rules. Lovelorn maidens of Indonesia hide personal trinkets in the belongings of the man of their choice, hoping he'll be "charmed" into returning the affection. Yugoslav peasants literally track down their beloved by scooping up his footprints. They believe it will enable them to "hold" his love. Living "happily ever after" is a relative matter around the globe. Dutiful Arab wives, seldom seen or heard in public, often nag a husband into taking a second wife. Loneliness is the prod since she lives in strict seclusion and craves the companionship of another female — as well as help with the housework. And in one South Sea tribe, the Dobu, the bride always goes home to mother. The reason: tribal taboos demand that husband and wife come from different clans and villages. To keep family and tribal peace, the couple lives one year with the bride's clan, the next year with the husband's. Compared with some of these international customs and problems, American courtship and marriage seems relatively uncomplicated. Feedback... —Continued from page 3 Dear Editor, I think that most of the people who reside in this "charming" community of Cullowhee will agree that it is a bit isolated and that we need some contact with the outside world, with other people, places and ideas. This could be accomplished at a very small price. How is this contact with the outside world to be made at a small price? Namely, through books. How can a college grow if no outside inspiration is added to it? With a bookstore on the campus of Western Carolina College, the future leaders of our nation will find out what the present leaders of our nation now think. So, please, would those who are in a position to help us get a bookstore help instead of becoming an impassable obstacle. Sincerely, Joyce Waldroup Dear Editor, It has come to my attention and the attention of others that this school is lacking something that no other college I have been to is without — a book store. Never have I seen an institution of higher learning that did not have access to some type of bookstore. Several assignments have been given to students by their professors that require them to purchase a book. Due to the fact that no such place is available, the student goes to great difficulties in getting the required assignment. I think this school and the people who attend it would greatly appreciate a book store on their campus. Ernest Clifton Weant Jr. Dear Editor, I was very happy to see your editorial on the need for a bookstore on the campus of Western Carolina College. It is, indeed, something that is needed on every college campus, especially one that is so isolated as Western Carolina. I only hope that this dream will be a reality. Sincerely, Lynne Milroy Dear Editor, How can a college function without a bookstore; especially a college which is miles from an urban center? One would think that an isolated college such as this one would make a concentrated effort to provide educational facilities for both faculty and students such as a bookstore. Yet it is 53 miles to the nearest adequate bookstore. This is an issue upon which we must stand or fall. How can we survive as an institution of higher learning when the tools of learning, books, aren't availa-ble. If an entrepreneur is unwilling to to open a bookstore in this community, it is incumbent upon the college to do so. Sincerely, Pat Robinson Bessie Burch Dear Editor, How do you start your library when one is so necessary in your future profession? If you are at Fri. 21 DISCOUNT PER - GALLON - Sat. Cullowhee Hi-Way Service TIRES —:— TUBES —:— WASH GREASE —:— BATTERIES —:— OIL Radford Hooper—Owner-Mgrr. WELCOME, STUDENTS TO The College Shop ALL YOUR COLLEGE NEEDS SANDWICHES — SCHOOL SUPPLIES — Next to Joyner — Cullowhee you have three choices. First, you can continue paying the Book Rental office your usual seven dollars a quarter and instead of returning your books, which usually look like a blotter, "lose them." Then you pay for the books plus the rental. This is costly but since we are all rich students we do not mind. The second alternative is to go to Asheville which would entail a dollar or two. The third possibility is to fight for a resolution to get a bookstore and to support a bookstore should we be so lucky as to get one. That my fellow students is what I pledge to do. How about you? Even those who find comic books suspenseful are welcome in this fight. Wayne Vogler Dear Editor: Try standing in the halls of Stillwell by yourself sometime just to hear remarks made by passing students. Never have I heard such negative attitudes by those supposedly yearning for knowledge. "That simple-minded professor asked for the little, unimportant details on our test . . . Think I'll cut that 'dull class' today . . . May I copy your homework? I just didn't have the time to prepare mine." Is there a legitimate excuse for such statements as these? Our secluded campus is no different from any other in this respect, but that is no excuse. We have a capable faculty and provisions for learning here, yet the laxity of a flexible schedule and self-expression made out by students obstructs the so-called "real reason" we are here. Challenges are here for each person! Not only a full time class and study schedule, but clubs of every nature exist to meet our intellectual needs. There should be an ever-present ambition arid a working toward our goal. Which is most important? To have fun now and let our future suffer, or to obliterate this passive submission and to work toward something? Are we developing interests and imploring outside cultures? This moment will never return. Ten years from now we will wish that we could attend that "dull class" again and that we had kept up a reading knowledge of a required two quarter foreign language. Take advantage of vour college facili ties now and and help build a foundation for our future. Marjorie Kay Nuttall Dear Editor: My hearty congratulations to Mr. James Callahan for his splendid editorial concerning the situation at Clemson College. It is gratifying to see the students on this campus take an active stand in vital issues. With a few people like Mr. Callahan around, we Southerners may yet advance to twentieth-century thinking. Who knows? Perhaps before the century is out, the handful of Negro youngsters who live in Cullowhee will not have to travel to Canton to attend a decent high school. William L. Easterling Bob Waterfield of the Los Angeles Rams holds the modern record for the longest punt from scrimmage with a boot of 88 yards in 1948. The nation's top scorer, Nick Wurkena of Seton Hall, was held to 11 points, the lowest of his career, by Gerry Ward of Boston College. His teammates picked up the slack and downed Boston College, 61-53. POLIO BIRTH DBFBCTS ARTHRITIS .»oTHE SALK .-.•JVSPt&i,-. itKZTITIITIZ The Steven Vance Men's Shop At Winner's Asheville, N. C. Headquarters for: Gant Shirts Canterbury Belts Corbin Slacks Bass Weejuns Gold Cup Sox London Fog Jackets STOVALL'S 5-10-25* STORE Next to 1st Union National Bank WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS "We Back the Cats" Raymon Stovall, Owner-Mgr.

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: 1963-02-15;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-02
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  • Dimension: 21.5" x 16"
  • Pages: 6 pages
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  • 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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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1963-02-15_Vol28_No18
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