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  • Editorial Page Un-Golden Silence The student body has spoken: "The students of Western Carolina College respectfully request that the Board of Trustees of Western Carolina College be informed that the Western Carolina students deem it imperative that Western Carolina become a branch of the University of North Carolina system. It is further requested that the Board of Trustees be informed of the feeling among the students that this request be acted upon before the end of the 1964-65 school year by the Board of Trustees." The Western Carolinian has spoken: "The Carolinian supports, without question, any possibility of Western Carolina College becoming a part of our state university system . . . The Board of Trustees must act promptly, and we urge them to use every means necessary in order to create the University of North Carolina at Cullowhee." Jackson County Representative Lacy Thornburg has spoken: "If the Board of Trustees sees fit to act in the affirmative, I plan to see that university status is achieved for Western Carolina College." All of us are impatiently waiting for the Board of Trustees to speak. We have voiced our collective feeling, now we can, as individuals, inform the members of the Board of our stand. They are J. Ramsey Buchanan (Sylva) , R. Guy Sutton (Highlands), Arnold Hyde (Asheville) , Sam J. Ervin, III (Morganton), Thomas Lane Malonee (Candler), E. J. Whitmire (Franklin), Morgan Cooper (Forest City), Charles O. Van Gorder (Andrews) , Jonathan H. Woody (Waynesville), Mrs. Dan K. Moore (Canton), Modeal Walsh (Robbinsville), Boyace A. Whitmire (Hendersonville). They must decide. That's Entertainment As Director of the Western Carolina Student Union, Mr. Baxter Wood has certainly lived up to the word "serendipity" in his move to bring the "Serendipity Singers" to entertain the students of our college. Serendipity means "the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for." This describes the Student Union-sponsored concert to a tee. The folk group is one of the best and most popular in the country, and we couldn't be more pleasantly surprised by their appearance at Western Carolina. Mr. Wood has proved his serendipity, and we thank him. Now it is up to us to prove that we can support such an independent venture. Because if we can, then we may feel certain that more and more programs of this nature will be brought here for our enjoyment. Let us give an enthusiastic welcome to the Serendipity Singers! 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 Editor Nick Taylor Feature Editor Charles Stephens Sports Editor John Reid Copy Editor Joan Burnett Layout Assistant John Keeler Photographer Jack Stevenson, Jr. Cartoonist Mitchell Flinchum Columnists: Joan Burnett, Jerry Chambers, Thad Roberts, John Roper, Eddie Woodard, John Bruton. Writers: Kathy Abbott, Mary Jane Carpenter, Linda Krug, Cindy Borden, Joe Wray, Charlotte Wise, Doug Hill, David Walker, Beth Bartlett, Bill Upchurch. Typists: Rosemary Cameron, Rita Bailey, Becky Walker, Erskine Ardey, Gail Verne, Marty Oates, Carla Warner. Secretary Jane Souther Circulation Manager Ronnie Robbins Sponsor Henry G. Morgan ■ Na<inna1 Scene France - An Ally' By John Roper A new development has taken place concerning our old "ally," France. It has been announced that she will have only observers present at the next meeting of S. E. A. T. O. The statement further read that she would probably withdraw completely from the organization shortly. Whether or not these statements are completely true or not, it remains that France has done much since the rise of DeGaulle to harass and irritate the U. S. It has been said by France that the U. S. should not try to accomplish in Viet Nam what she tried to do and failed. Why she should feel that a failure on her part should justify anyone else refusing their obligations, is not known. If this is, indeed, how France feels about the situation, it would be entirely in order to remind her that she also failed in her efforts to arrest the progress of the German armies. If the U. S. had taken a hint from this Wanderings By John Who doesn't like full- fledged things? Things that got the way they are through years of careful development, adjustment, and progress. Things that are in their own right institutions. We could take the Jaguar XKE for an example and discuss its purity of tradition with justifiable admiration. Or, we could take universities, such as U- NC or what have you, and do the same thing. A good university, a full- fledged living one, is the end product of many years of organized development. And so are colleges. Both have traditions all their own, and both are constantly growing along both traditional and speculative lines. But a university belongs to its own special breed of things, its own class of institutions. In short, it's a different thing all together from a small college. The people of North Carolina admire U.N.C., and there is a good, reason for it. It is a ct mplex, highly specialized, and competent school in nearly all academic and scientific fields. But what exactly makes it a university? First of all we might consider its size and consequent influence. At Chapel Hill a- lone, U.N.C. boasts 10,887 students. Add to that another 7,451 at Raleigh and who knows how many more from Greensboro and, though I hesitate to add it, Charlotte, and you have a school the right size to be called a university. In other words, U.N. C. can afford to be a traditional sort of university. Next a university is several schools. Many universities have separate campuses for the liberal arts and the Brutor sciences, and often these cam- uses are several miles apart. Specialization is a key component in the university- system. Nevertheless, when one of the specialized campuses is isolated, say, 65 or 70 miles up in the mountains of North Carolina, it is liable to betray a lack of interesting and diverse people in the student body. In addition to size and specialization, a University features graduate schools and confers advanced degrees in nearly all academic and sci-.. entific areas. And good graduate schools take a long time, and lots of money to develop. That's why small colleges have difficulty instituting graduate studies. Now, where does a college fit into all of this? The truth is, a college doesn't fit, especially a small or even medium sized college. There are, of course, a few exceptions. Charlotte College got fitted into U.N.C.'s system and overnight it became U.N.C. at C. But. is it really a university? No, not in the full- fledged sense What about U.N.C. at Cullowhee? It's a vague possibility, and perhaps, a sad one. Right now we are a full- fledged thing, a college, and a good one, that has been carefully developed for over 76 years. Someehow, the words "good college" Just sort of sound better than, say, the, words " a poor branch of a good university." We should remain a good college, and we will unless . . . But the possibility is too vague. W.C.C. isn't ready to be a university. And when it is, I'd like to see it with its own traditions as U.W.C. and refused to commit herself anywhere the French had failed, the present situation would not have arisen. This is not. saying that a country should be eternally grateful to us or anyone else because we protected freedom at one time, but I do feel that France and all the other free nations of the world should take warning from things that happened in the past and not try for a repeat performance. Although it is enough to say that we should not try to prevent the spread of Communism «in a free land, the French have not contented themselves with this. They have also stated that we should get out of Europe and leave it for the Europeans. It is bad enough to object to our attempts to protect people in the Far East who wish our protection; it is considerably worse to object to our wishes to protect our own interests in an area so important to us. Although the French are in Europe literally, I do not feel that they have any more right to consider themselves solely responsible for the conduct of affairs in Europe than the Americans. The reason that I feel this way is the fact that if Europe was lost to the Communists, we would not be in a very good position so far as our own battle against Communism is concerned. I will not go so far as to say that Prime Minister De- Gaulle is entirely responsible for the present French policy, but it's very interesting that the history of France has been the history of one man. All the great periods in French history are during the rule of one singularly strong, and often hard-headed, man. It is also interesting to note that these periods have, almost without exception, ended in disaster for the French nation. Although DeGaulle is certainly the strong man, the French Nation is not the strong nation it was in the past. Perhaps Mr. DeGaulle feels that he is taking the necessary steps to make this strong nation, but I object to the implications possible in his present course. I thoroughly sympathize with his desire to make France an important nation. By the same token, he should not feel that the U. S. is out of line in wanting to insure that we remain thus.
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