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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1966-12-08_Vol32_No19_01

FEATURES, SPORTS . ..... PiKA to sponsor dance featuring the Tarns, coed privileges extended nationwide, ticket rap beaten. UCLA at top of both AP, UPI polls, UNC ranked. The 19th Hole rambles through a full agenda of sports, both local and national. TheWESTERN CAROLINIAN INSIDE THE CAROLINIAN . . News: College Center Board's winter schedule is outlined; Christmas activities planned. Editorials: A look at freedom of the college press-here and elsewhere. Feedback: Readers knock lack of sportsmanship in opening game. VOICE OF THE STUDENTS .3JL n, 19 Thursday, I ecember 8, CULLOWHEE, N. C. National Draft Council Lines Out Alternatives WASHINGTON (CPS)— A vast majority of Americans may favor drafting young men for military service, recent Lou Harris polls indicate, but not many of the experts at the November 11 and 12 National Conference on the Draft here could agree on how it should be done. Nevertheless, with the present draft law coming up for Congressional review next summer, conference partici" pants, as guests of the American Veterans Committee, were intent on outlining the present alternatives. What few initial objections there were to conscription itself were snowed by the apparent impossibility of raising our present army through volunteers. The draft itself has not supplied the military with more than a "residual" number of men since 1948, according to Dr. Harold Wool, the Pentagon's Director for Procurement Policy, but it poses a definite "spur" to enlistments. Wool said he doubted whether financial inducements alone could attract enough volunteers. To maintain an army of the present proportions, he indicated, a large number of men would be needed who are "basically not inclined to military service careers." Beyond a certain point, pay increases would not bring in significantly more people, Wool explained. A poll prepared for the conference by Lou Harris indicated definite public preferences of the direction Selective Service reform, if there is to be any, should take. Conscription, according to the poll, seems to be an accepted fact of life. Only 12 per cent advocated a strictly voluntary army. CONTINUED, Page 4 Moran Termed 'Killed In Action' Missing Speaker Is Discovered Murdered In Guatemalan Jungle William T. Cox, representative for the World Around Us, an organization sponsoring lectures and documenatries, has announced that Robert Moran, who was to have given a film- lecture in Hoey Auditorium on Oct. 12, has been "killed in action" in the jungles of Guatemala. Moran was to have lectured on the Dominican Republic but was replaced by Richard E. S. Maxson who spoke on "China's threat to the Himalayas." It was reported at that time that Moran was missing in the jungles of Guatemala. The announcement of Moran's death was contained in a letter to Baxter Wood, Student Center Director and sponsor of the College Center Board. Cox, in announcing Moran's death, said, "'killed in action' might be a better term, for he was pur suing his chosen profession of documenting the events of current history." Cox said that since he was reported missing "the searched continued and the U. S. State Department reported that a body was found and then the identification was confirmed through dental records. The suspected killers have been apprehended, and an official investigation is under way in Guatemala. It is now believed that the killing was connected with the rebellion taking place there." Moran received a master of science degree in nuclear physics and took extensive studies in philosophy, Biology, and Anthropology. He was born in the United States, but his early childhood was spent in Chile. For a time he lived in Ecuador among the Jivaro head hunters, worked for the U. S. Forest Service as a firefighter, and supervised convict crews in California. He was formerly a director of the planetarium at the University of Nevada, and past president of the Astronomical Society of Nevada. At the time of his death he was writer- producer-narrator of educational radio programs in Reno, Nevada, and appeared nationwide on the TV documentary series, "Of Lands and Seas." Registration Still Underway With 3,744 Enrolled Registration at WCC is still continuing although the winter quarter is well underway. The approximate total enrollment is 3,744, but graduate students are still registering. The number of new students present on the campus has not been computed yet because of the large number of drop-adds and late registrations. Leaving WCC were 44 seniors who completed requirements for graduation during fall quarter. Sixteen students are doing student teaching this quarter. The number of students who did not return for other reasons is unavailable due to the number of appeal cases still pending. Winter quarter has brought about 135 students into dormitories. There are now more students in the dorms than there were at the beginning of fall quarter. This is due to the fact that many students reserved rooms for fall, then decided to live off-campus or at home, and failed to cancel their reservations. The Housing Office has now cleared up the waiting list for rooms in women's dorms and there are rooms still available. Dukes Of Dixieland To Highlight CCB Winter Entertainment Schedule Is Announced Upchurch And Steagall Report On Convention Bill Upchurch and Barry Steagall, Student Body president and vice-president, attended the Associated Student Government Convention at the University of Oklahoma on Nov. 3-5. The main purpose of the convention was to aid the student governments of the colleges and universities across the United States, through exchange of ideas, achieve and change of ideas, achieve better and more efficient governing systems. The convention held many seminars on effective student government and campus activities. Upchurch and Steagall attended the conferences on the student senate, student-faculty relationship, student-student relationship, and freshman orientation. Steagall stated that he found that the student government of WCC far surpasses that of many other colleges that were represented at the convention. "The students of Western accept responsibility and have more voice in campus activities than most of the other colleges. We have a student senate instead of the student council that governs other colleges. Only one other university had a day-student government, and Western Carolina is the only college in the United States that had Men's and Women's house governments." Mr. Upchurch reported to the student that relations between the student government and newspaper here at Western are excellent compared with other colleges. "The court system here is one of the better ones, and our freshman orientation program is one of the best in the nation. "One area we have been able to do much in is student participation in policy-making. Attendance at more college committee meetings by student senators is in the works now." "My only regret," said Mr. Steagall, "is that two delegates were sent when there could have been more. If that had been the case, Western could have been represented at more seminars and more ideas and suggestions could have been brought back to the campus. "The convention was very beneficial. I feel that the ASG is a nucleus that we can use to help do our work in the student government. It is effective and effici enL" Approximately 2700 high school students are currently enrolled in the new Air Force ROTC program. Tony Hodge, president of the College Center Board, has presented a schedule of campus activities planned for winter quarter. The CCB is sponsoring a "Christmas on Campus" program on Thursday night, Dec. 8. Organizational Meeting Held For CISGA The organizational meeting of the Carolinas IntercoUegiate Student Government Association was held at Catawba College in Salisbury on Nov. 11-12. The conference was attended by David Frederick and David Fisher from WCC. Appalachian, Catawba, Guilford, Elon and Western Carolina sent representatives to the meeting and will become charter members of the organization. Other colleges will be given the opportunity to join at a later date. Several years ago a similar association failed because of a mishandling of funds belonging to it. High Point CoUege withdrew because of this and was not asked to attend the organizing meeting. Bill Upchurch, student body president, has been active in the movement to reorganize the old association. CONTINUED, Page 3 The event will take place in Joyner Square at 8 o'clock. From there a procession will move to all the dormitories for caroling and lighting of Christmas trees, according to CCB source Ginger Lathan. Santa Claus will lead the procession around and then to Albright-Benton for coffee and fun. The Dean of Women has granted permission for all girls to wear slacks. Another pre-Christmas activity will be a Dec. 14 concert i in Hoey Auditorium featuring the poet "MichaeL" He will be backed up by WCC's New Salem Trio. The Dukes of Dixieland, a well-known jazz band, will perform Jn concert here sometime afterthrfstmas.' Three lectures are scheduled for winter quarter. Following is a list of the dates, topics, and speakers for each occasion. Jan. 11 - "Russians. China," Raphael Greene March 8 - "Colombia," Au- bert Lavastida April 3 - "South Viet Nam," Kenneth S. Armstrong The movie schedule' is as follows: "Hamlet" - Jan. 21 "Song of Bernadette" - Jan. 28 "Henry V" - Feb. 4 "The Cardinal" - Feb. 25 "King of Kings" - March 11 ■Freud" - March 18 "The Robe" - April 1 "War and Peace" - April 15 "The King and I " - April 29 Choirs Present Christmas Concert \n Hoey Sunday The choral organizations of Western Carolina College will present their annual Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Professor Armand Kitte, director, said that music selected for the concert ranges from the Renaissance period through that of present day composers. The featured work will be Bach's Cantata 140 (Sleepers, Wake) sung by the Concert" Choir, accompanied by an orchestra composed of WCC faculty and guest artists from the Charlottee and Asheville Symphony Orchestras. Asheville Symphony members participating are Sidney vom Lehn, violin; Louise Ellis, viola; and Dr. Frederick Wessell, viola. Those from Charlotte include Elain Rickey, concert- master; Sarah Slechta and Joseph Slechta, violinists; Samuel Davis, cellist; Macleod Smith, oboe; and Alice Smith, English horn. Soloists for the cantata are Gwenda Ledbetter, Asheville; Dr. Edgar vom Lehn, Cullowhee and Joe Ginn, Sylva. The Chamber Singers and Mixed Chorus will also sing. Other composers represented on the program include Praetorius, Hassler, Handl, Menotti, Dello Joio, Kodaly, William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams and HandeL Accompanist for the Concert Choir is Henry Lofquist of the WCC faculty, and Miss Karen Koon^2 of Weaverville will accompany the Mixed Chorus. The performance is open to- the public and there is no charge for admission. The 4,500 college coeds who make up 130 Angel Flight units are dedicated to promoting interest in the Air Force ROTC program.

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.

• Creator
  • Western Carolina College
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
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  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1966-12-08;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-23
• Extent
  • Dimension: 15.75" x 11"
  • Pages: 4 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1966-12-08_Vol32_No19
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library