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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1971-10-07_Vol37_No09_05

Thursday, October 7, 1971 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN 5 CAROLINIAN FORUM 'Catamount9 considered a failure by many By STEVD2 PHILLIPS and KAREN FUSON When it was announced last week that students could pick up their 1970= 71 CATAMOUNTS, most students showed some degree of excitement. An annual is a onee~a-year publication that students look forward to receiving. After standing in line, sometimes for more than an hour and a half, for their annuals, students immsdiately began flipping through the pages of the yearbook. Just as they always do, students seated themselves on the nearest plot of ground, or, if in a hurry to be elsewhere, held the book open as they walked across campus, to read and to look. But reactions and comments were not what one would have expected at such a time. Apparently, most students did not think the CATAMOUNT met their expectations. "It is the poorest yearbook I've ever seen," said Frank Wyatt, "in layout (the sports layout, especially) and in taste. Too many things were definitely in poor taste. It's so bad I'm not even going to take it home and show it to my mother! My brother was editor of his high school annual and I'd be ashamed to show it to him." Frank is a senior. But freshman, Mrs. Roselynn Hopkins, held much the same opinion: "It didn't even follow the two basic rules for a yearbooks using one theme throughout the annual and unification. If names, descriptions, headlines are used once, they should be used on every page. The layout was terrible," Roselynn was editor of her high school yearbook. me CATAMOUNT resembled their high S=m ..VT^ QlvidSPoon,oneofthose, said, I liked it. . .about like my high pretty " yearbook" The co™r wis Though some freshmen were satisfied, those students who had received CATAMOUNTs In previous years were not happy, "It looks like a bunch of third- graders put it together," said one dissatisfied junior. Others were more implicit. A junior called "Curey" said the book has "no coordination -all of the freshmen, sophomores and juniors are just grouped together. You cant tell the Homecoming Court from the Miss Catamount runner-ups. The sports are poorly organized and many pictures are without captions." General consensus showed that most students agreed. They didn't like the mass grouping of underclassmen, Another complaint with the class picture section was made by sophomore Mike Willis, of Asheville, who thought "there was no reason not to get all of the names in the right order," Many more complaints centered around sports: from "too much coverage of Greeks and sports" to "it was all right, but there wasn't enough sports coverage," Several complaints centered around the quality of pictures, though all polled thought the color shots of beauties were "very good," Some even went so far as to say they were the "only part worth looking at. , ,but it you're not one of those girls, you may as well not own the book," :"•?, 4 Age of Concern9 so don't litter (EDITOR'S NOTE: The followingarticle was submitted to the CAROLINIAN by a student sincerely concerned about litter on campus. It is being printed under Feedback as it is a reader's opinion.) This is the Age of Concern. Everyone and everybody is concerned with the environmental pollution that is enveloping the world. Cries for change and betterment are arising from everywhere and everyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get involved. Or do they really? When one looks at the surrounding world, one could very easily draw the conclusion that all the concern and involvement very seldom goes farther than the living rooms, lounges, or small talk over coffee in the evening. What is being referred to is the general state of apathy that has overtaken the people of America and very truly the community that inhabits Cullowhee, This includes students, faculty, staff, and even the administration, What all this leads to is actually what this article is all about: UTTER ON OUR CAMPUS. Some would say we have a beautiful campus, others would say the opposite, but whatever the case, even the most beautiful loses its charm when covered with trash. While walking through one of the nicest parts of our campus I, as usual, looked about me at the expanse of lawn, at the trees, the bushes, and flower beds. But this wasnt what caught my eye, it was all the trash. I have been here for three years. Think what a first time visitor may think. During a short walk from the Post Office to Joyner Building I saw candy ^PPers, cigarette packs, newspaper, notebook paper, paper cups, drink cans, etc., (and this is but a short walk). While driving through the University Center Mt^a parking lot I had to swerve to miss running over eight beer cans, These beer cans stayed there for over a week. Trash in the parking lots, on and along the sidewalks, along the road, and even in the grass. It seems that everywhere one turns nowadays there's litter star ing you in the face. It doesn't say much for the people of our community, or does it? With all the employees that the state hires to work on our campus, it doesn't seem a bit too much for someone to pick up trash at least a couple of times a week. I don't mean just in certain areas, but all over our entire campus. This doesnt seem too much to ask. It also doesn't seem much to ask everyone else to pitch in and pick up some litter here and there and drop it in a trash can. Trash cans are placed all over our campus for this purpose. Tomorrow when you see that piece of paper lying on the ground, pick it up and drop it in a can. Maybe someone else wLH see you and get the idea and pick up another piece somewhere. Who knows, you may e<ren start a revolution. But don't just make it tomorrow. Do it the next day and the next week and the next month. Why not do it forever, any time and any place you may go? It might be nice to see the ground again. Since this is our home for another year, let's keep our yard clean. If you see someone drop some litter, stop him and make him pick it up and drop it in a can. If he wont pick it up, do it yourself, for it is your yard too. 11 isn't the humble who pick up other folk's litter. It's the proud. Some people still won't think our campus is beautiful, but they will think it is clean. And that is a reflection on us, all of us. Warren C. Wilkes Mobs wait for the Catamount. Few thought it was worth it. DMETX FROM Page 4 one character) but he nonetheless mourns for his youth and the fact that his goals have not been and probably never will be consummated. Thus the play has two casts-'the actual characters and their youthful ghosts. In the play's prologue, over an eerie, delicate, Debussy-ish melody, the ghosts of Follies girls haunt the stage (all in black and white costumes and their faces and arms covered with pallid makeup) of the old theatre with the sounds of past applause and the strains of long-ago melodies faintly in the air, And then the play proper begins, with the present day characters arriving for the party. They never actually see their ghosts, but instead in memory conjure up their youth in the form of these ghosts, and the ghosts never entirely give up the stage. Some may retreat, but even during the most intimate confession or bitter accusation from one character to another, there is always a ghost or two hovering on the stage, each on a spiritual reincarnation of times past. When the play ends, the party is over, it is early in the a.m., and the demolition teams are ready to tear down the theatre (to make way for a parking lot). The party guests go back to their disenchanted lives after a night of reminiscence and regrets, and their ghosts await the dynamite and the wrecker's ball. The old, "innocent" America— the America of the Ziegfeld Follies and Brenda Frazer and the WPA—is dead, but Its melodies linger on incongruously In the form of the American Dream. Hence the schism in the American soul and the emptiness in its people. FOLLIES' message is certainly not the kind one expects to hear when he goes to a musical, and FOLLIES has and will continue to turn off many people. But this Proustian musical (as it has been called) encompasses the entire range of American popular culture and uses this pop culture to dissect and analyze this strange and mythical country in which we live. And because of its honesty, integrity, and dazzling artistry, one can comfortably and securely state that FOLLIES is unquestionably one of the major plays of the American theatre. Most were pleased to see faculty pictures once again included in the CATAMOUNT, but again, many said the faculty shots were "blurred and taken from poor angles," There was also much mention of several departments, suchas sociology, being left out of the faculty section completely. And also tops on the list of complaints, was mention of the book being released to the students at such a late date. "It's rotten, and I can't understand why It was late," said senior Diane Causby, One junior said, "It looks like they were on a cheap budget and just threw it together at the last minute," Some students, however, predominantly males, favored the book with such praises as "pretty good," "really good," and "very good," One senior girl, upon hearing a freshman boy make such a comment, said she believed he was "too impressed with the beauty section and the cover to note the poor quality of the rest of the annual." Though it remains true that all of the people cannot be pleased all of the time, as is evidenced by complaints of "too much sports" and "not enough sports," it does seem that the 70-71 CATAMOUNT was largely considered a failure. ACTION ANSWER Got a question? Any question? Ask ACTION ANSWER, No matter what the topic: academics, athletics, rules, regulations, procedure, policy, (campus) politics, reading, writing, rithematic. ACTION ANSWER can answer your questions if there Is an answer. Mail all legitimate questions to ACTION ANSWER, Box 66, Cullowhee. And watch the pages of the Thursday editions for the answers. Write the editor P.O. Box 66 Letters to the editor should be addressed to The Editor of the CAROLINIAN, P. 0. Box 66, Cullowhee, N. C. 28723. It Is the policy of the WESTERN CAROLINIAN not to publish anonymous letters, and letters that do not have the author's name signed in longhand so that it is readable will not be published. The CAROLINIAN does, though, withhold the author's name on occasion if the author requests it. The Western Carolinian Published twice weekly throufh the academic year and weeklyduringtlie summer bythe students of Weatern Carolina University. Member: Collegiate Presa Service, Intercollegiate Press Service. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. WAT HOPKINS BUSINESS MANAGER. WM. J. BYF.RS News Editor. .Stephanie Phillips Associate Editors. Jim Rowel! Brooks Sanders Sport* Editor Frank Wyatt Feature Editor Tom DeVesto Copy Editor MeUnie Pope Photographer Tom DeVesto Editor Emeritus. Ron Williamson Advisor Gerry Schwartz Office*, first Door Joyner, phone 293-7267, mainng address Box 66, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723; subscription rata, S4.00 per year.

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 University
• Format
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• Date
  • Date original: 1971-10-07;
  • Date digitized: 2017-11-14
• Extent
  • 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.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1971-10-07_Vol37_No09
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library