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  • Editorial Page Oh, Speak Again ... Where exactly is 1965 going to take us, the students of today and the world of tomorrow? The new year has already begun with very definite drawbacks. For almost two years the public colleges of North Carolina have been burdened by the censorship of the incorrigible ban on Communist speakers. Yet it goes on. Editorials and letters have been written by the hundreds, petitions have been signed, protests have been made against the ban. What have these accomplished? Absolutely nothing! This absurd hypocrisy to our educational theory began and is maintained by the itellectual midgets and cultural pygmies who dictate legislation so that they may prove their own ignorant fears. (We ain't gonna let no dirty reds fill our kids with them evil thoughts.) Joseph Hunt, Jr., Dan Moore's key campaign aide, thinks that the law should be strengthened, and he is certain that our new governor shares this view. Hmmm We must still continue to fight for free thought and free speech. All of us will be able to vote in the next elections. We must make certain that there are some changes made. Now Has Arrived The recently reported behavior of our fellow students in a Wayesville beer hall is disgusting to say the least! Perhaps it occurred simply by accident, but the point is lhat it did happen, and as a result a death threat was issued lo any Western Carolina student who chances to enter the place. Naturally it was put off limits. In this same road house our students have stolen from, and otherwise abused not only the handicapped couple who try to eke out a meagre livelihood as owners, but also the reputation of the entire student body of this college. ' The incident could have been entirely avoided had the students simply exercised a little of the understanding and mature rationalization that we have supposedly learned in this institution. Life is being lived now, kids. Let's wise up a little and realize that all that high classroom theory doesn't mean a damn thing unless we can apply it to reality. Shooting cows. Robbing the blind and poor. Where do we go from here? What is wrong with us, that college students do these things? So the "Bird Cage" is off limits! No big thing. Who needs it? But the reason behind it reflects a grave social problem. Knowledge is supposed to direct us in the ways of a greater society in which we can all live together in peace and understanding. Now is the time to start. Not two years from now. Not when the degree it attained. But now. After all, we know that tomorrow may never come. THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN is published weekly by the students of Western Carolina College, Cullowhee, N. C. Represented for National Advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc. A member of the Intercollegiate Press Association and the Carolina Press Association. Offices are located on the second floor of Joyner Building. Telephone 293-2312. Subscription rate — $2.00 per year. BILL SHAWN SMITH FRED R. WRIGHT Editor Business Manager Managing Editor Jerry Chambers News Editors Nick Taylor, Betty Sprung Feature Editor Charles Stephens Sports Editor John Reid Copy Editor Joan Burnett Photographer Jack Stevenson, Jr. Cartoonist Mitchell Flinchum Columnists: Neal Evans, Joan Burnett, Jerry Chambers, Bill Melton, Gary Carden, Thad Roberts. Writers: Kathy Abbott, Carolyn Allen, Mary Jane Carpenter, John Keeler, Burt King, Linda Krug, Eddie Woodard, Bunny Wallace, Cindy Borden, Joe Wray, Charlotte Wise, Marc Latour, Marcia Huntsman, David Walker, Ted Whisnant, Danny Willard, Francis Vaitekunas. Typists: Carolyn Allen, Rosemary Cameron, Rita Baliey, Becky Walker, Gloria Moody, Ann Ramsey, Carla Warner. Secretary Jane Souther Circulation Managers Hines Hunt, Ronnie Robbins Sponsor Henry G. Morgan 0V«r th« CkriAtma* hoilAmft ? National And International Scene 80 Years Of Progress In Education 80 years of progress is the echo of our ruling party in North Carolina. The great Democratic party in North Carolina laid claim to this statement in our past state elections. The present administration under Terry Sanford, whose platform was higher education, has accomplished a great deal for education In North Carolia. They have possibly By Bill Upchurch taken the first step in a new assault on our educational problems with the establishment of Community Colleges and Industrial Education Training Centers. Truly, progress has been made compared to what has been the case in regard to education but not enough incentive has been taken to improve our position in correlation with the rest of the Candid Campus By Jerry Chambers Since this is the time of year designated (according to ancient pagan ritual) for resolutions, predictions, projections, etc., it is only fitting that The Western Carolinian should add its "voice" to the list of the prophesying elite. And since this column has served this function in the past, far be it from me to depart from tradition. In the first place, 1965 will long be remembered as the Year of Love at Western Caro -lina College. From the Tuc- kaseegee's icy waters to the shores of Ste. Albright-Ben- ton, couples will be given almost unlimited freedom in the area of amour. Yes, and if the communities surrounding the campus see fit to approve, such liberties as hand- holding may possibly be allowed. Furthermore, the Year of Love will not be limited to simple boy-girl relationships in its scope. Brotherly ..love will develop between faculty and administration, faculty and faculty, faculty and students, and students and administration, and probably even between administration and student government, although I am somewhat timorous about making a prediction of such sweeping proportions as the latter. Speaking of student government: some of you may not know that we are permitted such liberties as a democratic form of self-government. In any case (and providing that the aforementioned agape does develop between student government and Bird Building), something BIG is brewing in this department. Student government will not vanish from the face of this institution. This year, somewhere on campus, a Coke machine will be found working. When this suspicious instance of indiscretion occurs, an ensuing investigation will reveal all sorts of dirt. Elsewhere in the area of liquid refreshment — Jackson county will, at the request of certain elements in the faculty and student body, sponsor a liquor-sale referendum, Prohibition days will be over at last, and certain establishments in nearby towns will suffer a decided loss in patronage. They will regret their sometimes unkind treatment of a few of the nation's most renowned imbibers. Again I shall go out on a limb and make a drastic projection: 1965 will be the long-heralded, long-awaited year in which the "Western Carolina College student" of the oft-repeated phrase "conduct unbecoming to a Western Carolina student" will be discovered. With trumpet- flag-waving, hosannas, etc., this angelic, messianic figure will be carried to Buzzard's Roost and hung. And 3,000 students will be free from his influence forever. The only building finished on our campus this year will be the BSU Building. The new cafeteria addition will remain in its present dilapidated, smorgasbord condition and will possibly be finished sometime in 1967. The new dormitories will not get off the ground. For the first time in the history of the school, the cafeteria will run out of mashed potatoes (because of a shortage of synthetics), but this idyll will not last very long, two days at the most. The student newspaper will again be among the best in the Carolinas, and the basketball team will prove to be a surprise, making once more the trip to Kansas City. We will all go along, naturally, and for a weekend, the campus will revert to the primordial, forest primeval stage which we all miss so much. Enough predictions' ? ? nation. North Carolina has come a long way in the last 80 years under her Democratic administrations. She has witnessed the admission of approxi- 20 new states all of which have made greater progress in their expenditures per pupil than has North Carolina. Our Tarheel State has made progress, but in the wrong direction. In the 1963- 64 school year we were forty- third while for the 1964-65 school year we fell to forty- fourth in our expenditures per pupil. North Carolina spends an average of $322 per pupil compared to a national average of $6, 499. The only states spending less money per pupil than our progressive administrations are Alabama, South Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. This, my friends, is really progress. The Tarheels hold another impressive score, this being in the field of average teachers' pay. We again were motivated in the wrong direction. Our average teacher's pay ranked thirty-eighth in 1964-65, compared to thirty- seventh in 1963-64 in the national standings. Here we can look with pride for we have overcome several of the newer states. We do rank above North Dakota, South Dakota, and Idaho. Feel proud, my people—with our approximately 125-year head start as one of the original states, we have stayed ahead of someone. Is North Carolina not to be exploited for this progress? Yes, we are, by extreme groups, right and left, which thrive on ignorance. When is this blot on our proud people going to be extinguished? North Carolina has the twelfth largest population and the eighth largest school population in the United States. Surely a people with our incentive and hardness can make a more impressive record. Let's hope Mr. Moore will get behind some of our slumbering representatives, both in Washington and Raleigh, to imprr re the situation. Let us no stop now that we have taken the first step forward with community colleges and industrial education training centers. Let this first step be the beginning of a comeback and not the continuance of the standstill in progress which we have maintained for the last 80 years.
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