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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1965-10-22_Vol31_No06_08

Page 8 The Western Carolinian Friday, October 22, 1965 News Briefs Nomad Accepting Entries, Pre-Registration Planned Nomad The Nomad, Western Carolina's literary publication, will be accepting contributions from now until Jan. 14. Anyone who is interested in creative writing is urged to submit either poetry or prose to the Nomad. Prose should be limited to 1,500 words. Poetry may be of any length. To submit your work—Please enclose one typed copy of each of your contributions in an unsealed manila envelope. Put only the title of the work on the copies; Do not put your name on them. Along with the typed contribution enclose a sealed letter-size envelope containing your name and the titles of your contributions. Give them to Either Jeri Bailey, editor, Carla Warner, Secretary in Albright-Benton Dormitory to Harold Dellinger, Business Manager, Reynolds, or leave them with Dr. Agnes Stout in McKee 3205-A. Pre-Registration Tentative winter quarter pre- registration dates have been set for October 27 through November 3, according to Miss Addie Beam, Registrar. During this week, students will pick up course request forms at four stations on campus. These will be available at Hunter Library, in the lobby of McKee and Stillwell buildings, and in the foyer of Bird Building. After securing the course request form, the student will proceed to his faculty advisor to complete pre-registration. It is hoped that the use of four pick-up stations will prevent the forming of unreasonably long lines. IRC Meets The Western Carolina College International Relations Club will meet Thursday evening, October 28. The evening's program will consist of a debate between John Roper for the affirmative and Dean Baughn for the negative on the question, "Resolved: The United Nations has failed as a peace-keeping organization and should be disbanded." All members and interested persons are invited to attend. YRC The Young Republicans Club of Western Carolina College will hold their second meeting of the year on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Stillwell Building, Room 236. Tentatively planned for the meeting is a talk given by Mr. William Latimer, professor of political science, in the Department of Social Sciences. Plans for the upcoming state-wide convention for interested members will be discussed. Retakes Scheduled The Catamount staff has set Tuesday, October 26, as the date for re-takes and make up pictures for this year's annual. All students who have not had a picture made or who must have a picture made over are urged to go to the Staff Lounge of Hunter Library on Tuesday and have their picture made. This will be the last opportunity to have pictures made for the annual to go with the rest of your class. Also on Tuesday, all Greek organizations, Men's House Government, Women's House Government and the Senate will have their pictures made. These groups are asked to come in at any time between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. to have pictures made and do not need to wear special attire. The attire will be provided. All students are urged to come to the Staff Lounge between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. for their pictures. Also, Saturday morning, October 23 has been set aside for students who have not yet picked out proofs for the picture for the Catamount and also for purchase. The students who have not done this are asked to go to the lobby of Stillwell and pick out their proofs. The staff of the Catamount will pick the pose for the class pictures of anyone who does not come down by Saturday morning. The Business Manager of the Catamount said that thanks to the pictures being of better quality and students being able to chose the pose they wanted and the package of pictures wanted to fit his own budget, that this was the largest picture sale ever held on campus. There have also been more pictures made than ever before. Player Award The Brothers of Lambda Sigma Nu Fraternity at Western Carolina College will make, beginning with the 1965 football season, a Most Valuable Player award in all three of the major sports, football, basketball and baseball. The recipient of the award, to be made in the form of a trophy, will be decided upon by the coaches and players in each sport. Inter-Faith Council The Inter-Faith Council at WCC has announced the dates for the Religious Emphasis Week of 1966. This year's events will take place from Sunday, January 30 through Wednesday, February 2. On Wednesday, October 27, 1965, the Inter-Faith Council will present "The Restless Ones," a movie starring Robert Sampson, Jerome Courtland and Kim Darby. Admission will be 25c per person and the show will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Catamount Staff Announcement: Any club or organization on campus may select and sponsor a contestant in the 1965- 1966 Miss Catamount Contest, open to all upperclass girls who are not major campus beauty tiWe holders. Club presidents may submit their entries to the office of the President of the Student Body beginning Monday, October 25. The contest, which will consist of evening gown and casual wear appearances is tetatively sheduled for Thursday, November 4, In Hoey Auditorium. Judges will be from the fields of photography, fashion, and campus experts in the field of beauty. Job interview schedule for the week of October 25-29, 1965. October 26 — company, U.S. General Accounting; openings, accounting; majors, accounting and business administration. • * • All dormitory students who do not plan to return to college for the winter quarter, please come to the Housing Office to cancel room reservations before November 9. Room reservation refunds will not be made in full for cancellation received after November 16. Clinic Plans Formulated Center Will Give Assistance To The Mentally Handicapped Cabe Names Appropriations Appointments Student Body President Paul Cabe announced the appointment of six new members to the Student Appropriations Committee on October 4, 1965. Those members named are Jessie Harbison, Buz Helms, Bill Upchurch, Nick Taylor, Janet Smith, and Charlie Stephens. Jessie Harbison, a Senior from Highlands, N. C. majoring Education, was appointed by Cabe. Miss Harbison is President of Womens' House Government, a member of SNEA, and a counselor in Moore Dormitory. Buz Helms, a Senior from Monroe, N. C. majoring in Psychology, is Vice President of the Student Body. In addition to this, Helms is Dorm Assistant in Madison and President of TKE Fraternity. Bill Upchurch, a Junior from Asheboro, N. C. majoring in Social Science, was appointed to serve on this committee. Up church is Vice President of the Debate Club, Junior Senator, Editor of the College Democrat, and a member of the Young Democrats. Nick Taylor, a Junior from Ft. Meyers Beach, Florida majoring in Professional Writing and Journalism, was appointed to serve on this committee. Taylor is News Editor of the WESTERN CAROLINIAN, Corresponding Secretary of Kappa Alpha Order, and a Sophomore Senator. Jane Smith, a Senior from Mocksville, N. C, is a member of Alpha Delta Chi, served on the Executive Council of BSU, on the May Court two years, and is Vice President of the Home Economics Club. These members will serve for the 1965-66 academic year. Editor's note: This story was written before the Appropriations Committee met to make the decisions noted on page 1, where each organization and the funds alloted to it are listed. Neither story was run In the last issue due to Homecoming and we regret that they are both late in appearing. This is the second in a series of articles concerning the Comprehensive Clinic at Western Carolina. The first of these articles appeared in the October 1 issue of the Carolinian. The Developmental Evaluation Clinic, which is being established as a branch of the Western Carolina College Comprehensive Clinic, will assist mentally handicapped and functionally disordered children to work up to their Intellectual potential as nearly as possible. The personnel of this clinic will work with parents, teachers, referring physicians and others In bringing this possibility to realization. The Developmental Evaluation Clinic will make provisions for a team approach to: (1) broad diagnostic services for children, with emphasis on children believed to be mentally retarded and those not getting along well in school; (2) pediatric, psychological, neurological, speech and hearing, and social service evaluations; (3) diagnostic information for private physicians and other agencies; (4) counseling and guidance for parents; (5) training facilities for professional personnel; (6) aid to communities in developing other resources for care and training. Limited day-care services and in-patient services are being considered as a part of a physical facilities expansion program. The clinic will be headed administratively by the Director of the Guidance Clinic. Professionally, the clinic will be staffed by a board-eligible and board-certified pediatrician, a speech pathologist, an audiologist, a full-time registered nurse, a full time social worker, a full time psychologist with doctoral qualifications, additional specialists for consultation and three full time secretaries. The State Board of Health in North Carolina, through the Maternal and Child Health Section, will assist the college in setting up a local policy and administrative machinery for the operation of the clinic. The routine administration will be handled by the administration at WCC. Williams Wins Recognition In Lenox Table Setting Contest Suzanne C. Williams, a Home Economics major at Western | Carolina College, was recently announced as one of the fifth place winners in the eleventh annual Lenox Creative Table Setting Contest. From Franklin, she was the only winner from North Carolina. Miss William's winning entry was in the group of fifteen entries submitted from the meal Carolinian Begins Syndicated Column Beginning with this issue, the Carolinian will carry a series of fifteen syndicated columns by Paul Goodman, noted writer and lecturer. This column is written especially for collegiate publications and will be concerned with facets of higher education in to day's society. Goodman, a native New Yorker, was born in 1911. After graduating from City College of New York, he received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Chicago, New York University, Black Mountain College, and Sarah Lawrence, and has lectured widely throughout the country. Mr. Goodman has written for Commentary, Politics, Keyon Review, Resistance, New York Review of Books, and other magazines. His books include the novels Making Do and The Facts of Life; poetry, The Lordly Hudson; criticism, Kafka's Prayer and The Structure of Literature, Compulsory Mis-Education, The Community of Scholars, and Communitas. management and table service class taught during the spring quarter by Mrs. Leland Waters, Jr. Her prize was a cup and saucer of Lenox china in her chosen pattern, Kingsley. Over 370,000 high school and college home economics students from more than 11,000 schools across the country competed in creating original table settings. Each girl selected a theme, then chose the occasion for which to create her setting, decided on a color scheme and selected materials for table cover and napkins. The final step was illustrating the table setting on contest forms provided by Lenox, Inc. Judges in the contest included Jens Rissom, noted furniture designer, Eugenia Shepherd, women's feature editor, New York Herald Tribune, and Robert Houseman, editor-in-chief of Modern Bride Magazine. Suzanne C. Williams Annual Sponsors Design Competition The Catamount, Western Carolina College's yearbook, is sponsoring a contest for the best idea in cover design for the annual. The contest is open to all students; deadline for entries is October 29. Any contestant may turn his design in to Kathy Abbott, Catamount editor, Duane Oliver of the Fine Arts Department, or to the Catamount offices on the second floor of Joyner Building. All designs should be 8 by 12 inches and in color. This contest is being held in connection with the Art Department, but any or all individual students who wish to enter are encouraged to do so. All students who wish to form an AYN RAND STUDY GROUP please meet In the Faculty Lounge, Hunter Library, at 8:00 p.m. Monday, October 25. If you are Interested, but unable to attend at this time, please contact Jerry Carpenter at 304 Robertson Hall. Prerequisites for Interested students are that you have read the novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand. An artery-clogging condition that underlies most heart attacks is known as atherosclerosis, says the North Carolina Heart Association. Because your body's built-in thermostatic machine takes time to adjust to weather extremes, take life a little easier when the temperature zooms up or down, advises the North Carolina Heart Association.

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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  • Western Carolina College
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  • Date original: 1965-10-22;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-12
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  • Dimension: 15.75" x 11"
  • Pages: 8 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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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1965-10-22_Vol31_No06
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library