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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS COLLEGE RIOTS I would hope that the cur rent fad of campus riots will not spread to Newberry College but if it should, I would then hope that the administration would immediately weed out the agitators and throw them off the campus until their man ners improve. This business of "negotiat ing” with the students is silly. The simple act of entering an institution places a student un der that institution’s control. If he doesn't like it. he should go elsewhere. 1 cannot understand college administrators all over t h e country giving in to the whims of a bunch of seedy looking bums, especially when there is no secret about the fact that most of the riots are inspired and led by the Students for a Democratic Society, a commun ist organization, created by a communist apparently for the main purpose of creating hav oc on campuses and brain washing naive students who arc too egotistical to admit they are naive. Every college or university of which I have any knowledge has a student council. It is certainly proper for college ad ministrations to pay heed to what the elected representa tives of the students have to say And I am the first to ad mit that perhaps some students have legitimate grievances. We have experienced the sort of thing that leads to utter frus tration on the part of students who are really seeking an ed ucation. One absurd idea is this bus iness of "publish or perish". Heat is put on faculty mem bers to "publish" this is sup posed to mean. 1 gather, that because a professor gets some thing he has concocted into print, that makes him a more knowledgeable person. A great thing is made of the tact that a faculty member has "published" when nine times out of ten what he has published doesn't amount to a hill of beans to anvone but him self But while he is making the citort to publish, the students never see him. Thev are lured to a college or university to sit at the feet of this renowned professor who has ■ published but thev never get a glimpse of his feet, or ins face either Then there are the professors who wander about the country making speeches or conducting arbitration hearing' or doing all sorts of other tilings instead of being m the classroom, while graduate students inherit the task of teaching the great professor's students This is a legitimate gripe Another concerns the grad uate programs of many if not all. universities One gets thru a Master's degree fairly easily but when it comes to a doctor ate. that's another story. No one believes tfiat a doc torate should be given unless it is actually earned- though I confess 1 wonder how some of the people who have 'earned’ doctorates ever got them, i By the way this has no reference to honorary doctorates.) The fault in the doctorate program lies in the fact that a student cannot get his facul ty advisors to outline a defi nite, concrete program, at the end of which the degree will be forthcoming. He is told he must take a certain number of courses and do a certain am- (Continued on page 10) Vol 33—No. 2 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, May 1, 1969 $3 PER YEAR May Day Sunday M iss Compton Dorothy Compton, a senior from Greenville, will be crown ed May Queen at Newberry College next Sunday in the 1969 renewal of a campus tradition dating back to 1935. Her maid of honor will be Joanne Hast of Cameron, also a senior and runner-up to Miss Compton in student balloting for queen of the college’s Spring Festival. Four Newberry County beau ties will also take part in the colorful pageant at 3:30 p.m. on the campus quadrangle. They are Jeannie Armfield, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Armfield of Whitmire, and three Newberrians: Lynne Mayes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mayes: Brantlee Price, daughter of Col. and Mrs J. R Price: and Patricia Shealy. daughter of Mr and Mrs F. 0. Shealy. Miss Price is among the soph omore attendants to the May Queen The other three are gar land girls also representing the sophomore class. The traditional enthronement eeremony will follow a 12:30 luncheon honoring students’ mo- Miss Rast Carolina State University will be guest preacher. A former May Queen, Verna K o h n of Spartanburg, will speak at the afternoon cere mony. Miss Kohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Kohn of this city, will deliver a tribute to motherhood. Miss Kohn was Newberry's May Queen in 1952. A reception on the quadrang le will follow the processional and the crowning of Miss Compton by Dr. A. G. D. Wiles, president of the college. Music will be by the Newberry Col lege Band and a new vocal group, the Madrigal Singers, made up mostly of music fac ulty members. The Maypole dance, an event missing from the ceremony for several years, will be restored on Sunday afternoon, with chil dren of faculty and staff mem bers participating. Dean of Women Hattie Belle Lester said students urged that the Spring Festival be dedicat ed to mothers this year. The May 4 celebration falls a week before Mothers’ Day. Kiwanis Club to give ninth scholarship The Newberry Kiwanis Club today announced plans for the ninth annual aw r ard of a very desirable scholarship to be placed at Newberry College for the academic year 1969-70. Value of the scholarship will be $500 for use during the fresh man year. Throug 1 ’ the Kiwanis Club’s special committee on scholar ship. the chairman, Ralph E. Watkins, Jr., has reported that forms have been sent to high school principals and will be available to residents of New berry County who are in the top quarter of their graduat ing class. Application forms for the Ki wanis Scholarship may be ob tained through the offices of the Newberry, Mid-Carolina, and Whitmire High schools. C o m p 1 e t e d applications should be sent to Dean Con rad Park for the Newberry Ki wanis Scholarship Committee, Newberry College. The deadline is May 15. Applicants will be carefully screened on basis of complete information which they must submit. Final decision as to winner will be made after close study of applications and personal interviews with those rating highest on academic standards. Mrs. Wertz dies in Greenwood Mrs. Eva Long Wertz, 93, of Saluda, died Sunday at a hos pital in Greenwood. She was a daughter of the late H. T. and Emma Smith Long. Among her survivors is a half-sister Mrs. G. V. Clamp, and a half-brother. H. Tom Senator Lake successful on license issue State Senator Robert C. Lake came through on a campaign promise this week, and earned a salute from 12,000 National Guardsmen of the state. Lake outflanked a Senate committee trying to retain a $1 fee on license platesi for mem bers of the National Guard to pay for adding a Minute Man emblem. The state already prints the words "national guardsmen” on the auto license plates and charges an extra $1 for the service. Lake said curing the recent political campaign he heard more complaints about the ex tra SI fee than any other thing and he promised to try to re move it Lake’s measure also requir ed the State Highway Depart ment to add the Minute Man emblem at no extra cost. The Senate Highways com mittee, apparently worried that it would cost the state $12,000 gave Lake's measure a favor able nod but with an amend ment to keep the charge. Lake took the Senate floor to speak against the amend ment "This is little enough,” he said, "that S. C. citizens could pay to citizens performing such a valuable service. "The tags make ; a Guards man readily identifiable in cars whether they are reporting to Orangeburg or Voorhees or wherever they’re going.” The Senate voted by a large majority to kill the $1 fee and permit the Minute Man em blem to stay on the tags. Long of this city. Funeral services were con ducted Tuesday at Trinity Lu theran Church. tiiers Mother.' and fathers also have been invited to attend a service m Wiles Chapel start ing at 11 15 a m Sunday The Rev R Taylor Scott. Episco pal campus pastor at North Is .. - ■ 1 lo West Point Congressman Bryan Dorn has appointed Charles Frank Cul- clasure. son of Mr. and Mrs. L L Culclasure, Player St., to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York Culclasure will enter the Ac ademy in June. He is now a senior at Newberry high school where he is a member of the Beta Club and the Science and Spanish clubs. He is also active in the Luth eran Churcn and has worked with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. "Charles is an outstanding student and I am proud to ap point him to the I’nited States Military Academy,” Dorn said. Boundary Street Parent Teachers As sociation elected new officers for the 1969- 1970 session at a meeting last Thursday night. From left are Bob Underwood, re tiring president; Mrs. Jeannette Hopper, treasurer; Mrs. Fred Fulmer, secretary; Rev. Donald Funderburk, president. Ab sent when the picture was made was Pete Bishop, vice president. (Sunphoto by Martin Armfield.)