PAGE FOUR
Editorial Opinion
Better Seats-Better Spirit
Now that the new football stadium is nearing com
pletion, the question arises as to where the students will
be seati d ne\'t fall.
No ioimal decisions on the seating arrangement have
been made, but the Athletic Advisory Boaid will be con
sidering it in the near future.
The stadium will hold approximately 15,000 more
spectators than the old one, and the extra seats will be
located in the upper tiers on the east and west sides of
the field.
This means that approximately 3000 more students
could watch the games from the sidelines instead of the
end /one if they were seated in the higher section.
Tins seating arrangement will most likely resemble
the one m the old stadium except that all students would
be situated on the cast side of the field and the end zone.
But, m filling up these sections, it would be wise to fill
the upper section as well, thus giving a greater number of
students the advantage of getting evva\ from the end zone.
The new flash card section is expected to occupy a
section belween the 45 and 50 yard lines where the seniors
and graduate students have sat until now. This would
lend to dislocate many students not included in the flash
group.
The Athletic Advisory Board should attempt to give
all students the best possible advantages of the seating.
II as few students as possible would be seated in the end
zone in favor of the upper tiers, a great deal of student
dissatisfaction would be eliminated.
The student body is the most avid football booster
that the University has, and certainly pays a share
deseiwng of better seats.
Other View;
Creeping Secrecy
Creeping secrecy, the occupational disease of any bureau
cratic organization, is slowly infesting the bureaucratic bodies
of the University.
More and more, groups of power and responsibility in the
University community are finding it convenient to hold sessions
behind closed doors.
The disease generally manifests itself not only in closing
meetings to the public but also in barring the press, which serves,
in a sense, as the "eyes and ears of tho public."
The Committee on Student Organizations, for example, has
been running a continuous "executive session" throughout the
semester, ostensibly to discuss some secret revision of the social
code. The press has been admitted only for the routine business
portions of the meetings. However, it went into executive session
merely to pass on a recommendation involving the finances of
student organizations.
And secrecy is the policy of too many other University bodies.
The University Club, which last fall opened its lecture series
to the press, has closed the lectures this year.
The University's top governing body, the Board of Regents,
although required by law to transact its business publicly, carries
on as much discussion as possible in secret sessions.
It is not the Daily or the press as a whole which suffers when
meetings are held behind closed doors. Only the public loses
■when the press is excluded, for the press is the public's repre
sentative at these meetings. And when the press is excluded and
must obtain its information secondhand, chances for inaccuracy
and omission are greatly increased.
We hope these groups now holding secret sessions will one
day see fit to follow the example of ASUC, the top student
governing body, which scrupulously keeps all meetings open
to the public and the press.
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Campus Beat
Students Heed:
Get Antifreeze
For Bowl Game
Hello, again, Students:
How's your frostbite and wind
burn? We hope that this weather
doesn't keep up for two weeks.
Municipal—pardon me—Philadel
phia Stadium is cold enough in
the summer. Better take some sort
of heatei with you to the game.
And speaking of the Liberty
Bowl, a campus radio personality
quipped tecently that the half
holiday Prexy “gave” us is like
giving a Christmas present that
has to be given back after the
holidays.
* * *
We understand that money is
prelfy scarce now-adays. In fact,
it's so scarce that one fra'ternily
man had to sell his sweetheart
pin to meet expenses.
We’ve heard of mailing diplo
mas, but we’ve never heard of
the latest practice, A sign on the
door of Mac Allister Hall reads:
ALUMNI MAILING ROOM. Is
this for the alums who can’t make
it home after homecoming?
We understand that the Colle
gian office has been deluged with
propaganda from the Alabama
sports publicity office. One of the
pieces of literature was a gloss
covered booklet about the football
team, its past honors, and past
records. Why can’t the Quarter
back Club, or some other organi
zation undertake such a booklet
In conjunction with University’s
sports publicity office? If we’re
going to be a big time football
school, let’s go first class.
Who was ihe ghoul ihat wrote
"dead" in the snow under the
memorial stone of George Ath
erton by Schwab Auditorium?
* * *
Believe it or not, those old
pieces of the Beaver Field stands
actually fit into the new stadium
shell. We had visions of steel
workers cutting off pieces from
one side of the stadium and adding
them on the other side.
Bv the amount of traffic back
of the women’s residence halls at
2 a.m. Sunday, the new big week
end permissions weren’t as pop
ular with students as many had
expected.
* P *
In the firehouses buring down
department, we learned that
someone stole the Campus Patrol
office sign from inside the office
Saturday night while eight
members of the patrol sat inside
engrossed in a card game.
Well, good students, I have some
bluebooks to grade. If blueboks
are geting you down, don’t for
get the old adage: Non-iligitimus
Carburundum.
—Prof Way no
Gazette
TODAY
Accounting; Club, 7.15 pm., Lambda Chi
Alphn
AH hF, 7 pm. 112 Ruckhout
AIM, 7-10 p,ni., 20.1 HUB
American
Meteorological Society. 7 *BO
pm , M S auditorium
Chess Club, 7-10 p m , HUB caidtoom
Christian Fellowship, 12:45 pm., 218 HUB
Engineering Student Council, 6:15 pm.
212 HUB
Forestry Society, 7 p.m., 105 Forestry
Kappa Phi, 7 p m., Wesley Foundation
News and Views, 7pm, 204 Home Ec.
Building
Hiding Club, Christmas Party, 7 pm,
Stock Pavilion
Women's Chorus. 6:30 p.m., HUB assem
bly room
WRA Dance Club, 7 p.m.. White dance
studio
WRA Volleyball Intramural*. 6*30, 7:30
p m.. White gym
HOSPITAL
Carole Baker. Lawrence Beighey, Charles
Bercnt*. Chaile** Collin*. Diane Derrick*
son. Dunnld Hcarne, Madeline Hunslcker,
Kdward Kotchi, Paul Krieger. Stanley
Lipkin, Maiueen Mack, Mason Mabus, Lil
lian Mendez. Charles Munroe, Clement
Newbold, Marilyn Newman, Patricia Nied
bala, Patricia O’Handley, Norman Potter,
Richard Press, Bonnie Reese, Sally Sa
bold, Kent Schoch, Yong Shin, William
Thomas, Barbaia Trotter, John Urish,
Susan StuKz, Jane Luddecke, Robert Moss,
Dean Stiles.
Tickets for Jazz Pianist
On Sale Today in HUB
Tickets for Art Hodes, jazz pi
anist, and his Dixieland band will
be available to students at 1 p.m.
today at the Hetzel Union desk.
Non-student tickets will go on
sale ar 9 'sf.m. tomorrow for $1.25.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblsi
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WHEN HE <3OES OUT WITH LOUISE.'*'
American Policies
Prove Confusing
Associated Press News Analyst
A special study group sponsored by the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund has adopted the currently widespread belief
that broad changes are taking place in the relationship
between the Soviet Union and Red China.
In the Chinese section of a broad foreign policy study
it warns, however, that such
changes cannot be expected to
show definite results over a
short period of time. It criti
cizes United States policy to
ward Red China as lacking in
creative possibilities, and rec
ommends a far more deter
mined attempt to learn about
what is going on there, what
it means, and adjust policy to
This constitutes criticism of
the nonrecognition policy, but
there is no recommendation
that this policy be formally re
versed until after greater
study. The special study group
instead concludes that recog
nition in itself would have
little effect on the fundamen
tal conflict between the Chi
nese Reds and the West.
While no specific recom
mendations are made pending
the gathering of better infor
mation, there is a thematic
note to the Chinese section of
the report.
This theme begins with ref
erence to the traditional desire
of the United States to pro
mote the progress of China and
her integrity as a nation.
At the end of the discussion
of Red China itself, there is a
transition to discussion of the
contest for the ideological al
legiance of the countries sur
rounding her, and of those
around the whole Communist
perimeter.
This contest should go on,
THEY'SHOULD HAVE A BIS
SP6CT&OLAR ON TV, AND WEV
should carve His face on
MOUNT RUSHMOREI
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1959
By J. M. ROBERTS
the report states, against a
background of avoiding things
which would drive Peiping
closer to Moscow.
In trying to help such coun
tries, the report adds, the ob
jectives “cannot be thought of
as related exclusively to the
problems of power and mili
tary security. They must be
ends pursued for their own
sakes.”
This casts back to what used
to be called American altru
ism, before it got mixed up
with the benefits of military
bases, mutual security pro
grams, and the bread-on-ihe
waters idea that foreign eco
nomic aid will eventually re
turn a profit through new mar
kets.
Not so much that these oth
er objectives are subject to
criticism. But they do serve to
confuse American motives in
the minds of the under
developed peoples.
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