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PAGE 2—EDITORIALS
$10 Million Suit Follows
The Campus Chat
Friday, April 5, 1963
Post Article Strikes
Controversial Nerve
By snapping up the Wally Butts-
Bear Bryant conspiracy aft«>r several
other magazines — including News-
week and Sports Illustrated—had
turned it down, the Saturday Evening
Post not only gained a $10 million li-
bel suit but is credited with setting
the sports world buzzing with contro-
versy concerning the truth of the mat-
ter and the Post's coverage.
In its March 23 issue the Post assert-
ed that Butts, former athletic director
and coach of the University of Georgia,
gave football secrets to Bryant of the
University of Alabama prior to the
two teams' clash Sept. ?2. Alabama
won 85-0.
Both figures promptly denied the
charge and Butts filed a $10 million
libel suit against the Post.
From across the country came both
damnation and commendation to the
Post for its printing of the article.
Blackie Sherrod. executive sports edi-
tor of the Dallas Times Herald,
summed up the controversy in his
column. If the two football mentors
are guilty, he said, the Post was com-
pletely right in exposing them. On the
other hand, if thev are not. the maira-
7.ine has committed a grave injustice
by its coverage.
The "shocking report" finally came
out two weeks ago after many rumors
had drifted about for months. The
story was tucked inconspicuously on
the back pages with no cover headlines
to announce its presence. The article
itself, however, supported the scandal-
ous rumors with its aura of sensation-
alism. The Post even prominently
placed an editorial comment on the in-
troductory pirture for the story,
heralding its shock value.
The Post said that it sought to help
clean up collecre football across the
nation bv printing the article based on
a telephone conversation between
Butts and Bryant that Ceortre Bur-
nett. an Atlanta insurance salesman,
claims to have heard.
Undaunted by the fuss caused by
the article. Post's editorial director
Clay Blair. Jr.. whinned out a memo to
his staff: "The final yardstick of the
impact of our matrazine is the fact
that we have about six lawsuits nend-
imr. meanintr that we are hitting them
where it hurts."
Manv wonder aloud whv Brvant
would be willintr to jeopardize his Ala-
bama powerhouse, rated No. 1 in the
nation at that time, bv acceptinp in-
side information to defeat Georgia,
over whom Alabama was favored by
1-1 to 17 points.
Alabama's All-American linebacker.
T/ee Rov Jordan, called the storv ridic-
ulous. "If the Alabama coaches had
some kind of advance information on
Georpia. they didn't tell the team
about it.
Student-Faculty Barrier
"In fact we made our game plans
for Georgia last spring. And that's
exactly the way we played the game,
just like we had planned it in the
spring." The Bryant-Butts conversa-
tion took place only eight days before
the game.
Apparently the only possible reason
for Bryant to have wanted to obtain
football tactics would have been for
gambling purposes. So far there is ab-
solutely no evidence that either Butts
or Bryant were involved in any bet
placing.
A letter written by the president of
Alabama to the president of Georgia
further strengthens the Post's claims.
The letter quoted Bryant as saying he
did receive information from Butts
concerning the Georgia offensive plays.
Nevertheless, many outsiders feel
that the Post overplayed the story
with its sensational coverage. Stray-
ing from the conventional objective
news style, the magazine peppered its
article with yellow journalism tactics.
Action on the matter has begun
from all corners as a result of the ar-
ticle. Washington, through Sen. Mc-
Clellan's Senate Rackets Committee,
the Southeastern Conference and state
officials are investigating the affair.
In an official report Tuesday, climax-
ing a two-week investigation, Georgia
Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook reported that
Butts did give advance information to
Bryant last fall. Cook said that the in-
formation was "unethical and improp-
er and unsportsmanlike."
But he said there was no indication
that state laws had been violated nor
that any monetary consideration has
passed to either of the men. Examina-
tion of Butts' financial statement re-
vealed that although his 1961 income
was less than $16,000, his bank rec-
ords showed a net worth of $205,088.
Butts did not indicate how this amount
had accumulated.
Bryant's attorneys attacked parts
of Cook's report as "unwarranted and
inaccurate." To support their charge,
they singled out the attorney general's
report of the letter which Cook said
established and corroborated evidence
that a telephone conversation took
place.
Where the SEP and Senate Rackets
Committee investigations will end is
anyone's guess, but the accepted fact
is that— if there was an intentional
fix of that or any other game—those
involved should be purged from all
athletic endeavors.
The most confusing factor of the
entire situation is the fact that Butts,
Brvant and Burnett all three passed
polygraph tests. All three can't be tell-
ing the truth.
—Kay Lanier
Silent Classes Stifle
Individual Thinking
Discussion on most college cam-
puses, including this one, is centered
on the numl>er of new buildings under
construction or the need for more ade-
quate facilities, especially for the soon-
to-be-constructed Union Building.
This discussion becomes remote
when the idea is advanced that a fac-
ulty-student gap needs to be bridged
and too manv student activities are
"institutionalized."
Dr. Glen Nygreen, writing in the
National Observer, points out that
"an institution must be committed to
the nurturing of the faculty-student
interaction process."
The first stumbling block to this in-
teraction process is the lecture method
of teaching. Students do not have an
opportunity to converse or to express
themselves. There is a need for more
classroom participation.
A second solution to the facultv-stu-
dent gap would be informal coffee bull
sessions. A group of interested stu-
dents could discuss subjects pertinent
to the course with the professor in
the«e sessions.
This mifht be caOod "seprefation"
by some students. But we now have
segregation in the Union Bni'dincr. and
much of it stem* from a fu«inp of in-
terests. The Greeks a««emble together
in one area and usually a number of
business maioro. mn<dr maiors. biolo-
gy majors or journalism maiors will
l e iTouned together for informal con-
versation.
This would necessitate the nroviaion
of areas for these omuns to drink their
coffee and oool their knowledge. Dr.
Nvereen believes the dav of the Inve
central student union is over. He calls
for a serie« of sma"er centers located
in academic areas. These areas would
bring students and faculty together
for informal discussion.
This situation would create a bur-
den on the faculty. It is suggested that
for this much needed closer relation-
ship to exist, the faculty teaching
load should be lessened to provide
time with students in an environment
where they can express themselves.
It is the responsibility of an institu-
tion of higher learning to help stu-
dents find ways to develop the "spirit
of inquiry."
This present system of nonexpres-
sion leads to the "institutionalized"
student activities. If students have
learned only to listen in class, they
have learned to "go along with" ac-
tivities in which they have very little
interest.
Did we have Dutch Week this year
because it is tradition? Do we strug-
gle with a Road Trip year after year
because we did it last year?
If the interest doesn't exist, why
not let these activities die? A univer-
sity with thinkine students will find
interesting replacements.
Devising an intelligent poll on cer-
tain latreine student activities would
produce interesting and conclusive in-
formation. Not onlv would i>ol1s help
send some activities to the grave, but
thev would hrintr in fresh ideas for
reniacement planners.
Status nuo elassroom techniques and
student activities reveal an air of com-
plprenrv around university camnuses.
With enrollment expected to hit a
record increase in the fall of 1064. the
time has arrived for faculty, students
and administration to promote ideas
and nlans that will meet the needs and
challenge the minds of North Texans.
—Bob Lovelace
Insight Via Blindness
Coed Plans Life
With Disabled
BLIND STUDENT TEACHER Betty Bird shows Braille class notes to three of her
seventh grade students, from loft, W. J. Littrell, Rodney Price and Charles Wilson.
Miss Bird teaches history and English at the Lab School.
By BRENDA UKNT/
The blind can lead the blind, Betty Bird
believes.
And she hopes to do it in Puerto Rico
through the Peace Corps.
Miss Bird, a senior from Dallas who has
been blind since she had the black measles
at the age of 6, wants to help the Puerto
Ricans build up their school for the blind.
She thinks she can convince the Peace
Corps of her ability to serve in this capacity
through her knowledge of Spanish- and her
first-hand experience as a blind person.
Miss Bird is now doing her practice teach-
ing in the Laboratory School at North Tex-
as. She has a double major in English and
psychology and plans to graduate in 19R4.
If her dream of working in Puerto Rico
comes true, she would serve there for two
years and then return to NTSU to get
her master's degree in psychology.
Eventually she hopes to teach either a
special class in the public schools or at a
state school for the blind. She would especial-
ly like to work in a rehabilitation center for
students who lose their sight in their teen-
age years.
The blind North Texas coed has maintained
a high scholastic average throughout her
school years. At North Texas she is a mem-
ber of Psi Chi, an honorary club for psychol-
Cover to Cover
Bawdy Inmate Laughs at Insanity
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," by
Ken Kcsey. The Viking Press, Inc. 272 pp.
People sometimes forget what laughter can
do. It is one of mail's most powerful weapons
and one of his most forgotten blessings. It
is a relief from tension, a bridge from
the pressures of stored emotions to the peace-
fulness of a good chuckle.
In the mixed-up world of Ken Kesey's "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" laughter is
an essential but missing factor, for the cuck-
oo's nest is a humorless insane asylum.
At least it is humorless until Randle Mc-
Murphy feigns insanity to avoid a prison
work sentence and begins revitalizing the
entire institution. Because of his robust, ov-
ersexed nature, McMurphy immediately be-
comes an enemy of Big Nurse, who rules the
ward with an iron tongue. A power strug-
gle between the two begins hilariously, but
soon becomes a struggle for survival.
Besides the perverted and insane inmates,
this novel—Kesey's first—is further com-
plicated by the narration told through the
eyes of a chronic who fades in and out of
insanity during the span of the book. He is
a 6-foot-8 Indian who, in his madness, pre-
tends to be u deaf-mute and who is repeated-
ly bothered by illusions of "fog" and "ma-
chinery" in the walls.
BI T McMIRPHY is the savior of the nar
rntor and the other inmates both literally
and symbolically. With his rare laughter,
his obsession with gambling and his bold
disrespect for ward policy, McMurphy slow-
ly leads the victims out of their meekness
nnd fop into a world of manhood and sani-
ty.
Along the route, this pilgrimage is con-
stantly sabotaged by Big Nurse, a cruel pic-
ture of pure evil. It is up to McMurphy alone
to wrestle the power the nurse owns and uses
out of her hands.
The struggle begins on a light note, with
McMurphy laying odds that he can destroy
Big Nurse's control—or her virginity—with-
in a week. The inmates—humorless, power-
less, almost lifeless—are slow to go along
with this or any McMurphy scheme.
But, like a Sergeant Bilko of the strait-
jacket set, McMurphy methodically shows
his followers that freedom-—nnd laughter -
nre precious possessions anywhere, even in
an asylum.
He mnkes passes at nurses, organizes bas-
ketball teams, breaks the nurses' glass win-
dow, deals hot poker games and—most im-
portant laughs. If he can get just one in-
mate to forget his inhibitions and fears and
submit to a good down-to-earth guffaw, then
McMurphy would think he had taken a large
step toward saving the ward from the "com-
bine" of administration.
As a lender of this flight to salvation, the
red-haired Irishman presents a startling
Christ-symbol, complete with disciples and
crucifixion. In fact the entire book is rich
with Christian symbolism and dramatic irony,
but it is all kept in the background where it
belongs, never overshadowing the all-im-
portant plot.
The comic scenes in the novel are, surpris-
ingly, just as effective as the depressing,
sadistic ones, A monopoly game among the
hallucinating inmates, the committal of a
jolly red-clothed fat man on New Year's Eve
and MeMurphy's plot to smuggle two town
prostitutes and a load of liquor into the ward
for the night provide a rare hilarity.
Bi t THE BOOK must be considered most
powerful for its careful subtleties, such as
the questions and clues about the character
of the narrator —but never any direct answ-
ers. The symbolism, subtle but undoubtedly
intentionnl, helps the novel attain a higher
gonl than just a well-plotted story.
McMurphy's leading his 12 disciples to a
weekend of freedom nnd his head being
anointed with oil just before his shock treat-
ment (crucifixion) are just a few examples
of the subtly repeated Christ image.
A nightmarish combination of "Catcher in
the Rye" and "Brave New World," this book
is not for the squeamish or the prudish. Mc-
Murphy brings the inmates their salvation
through smuggled wine and women, not
through preached morals and commandments.
News in Review
As a savior he is shocking, almost, blasphe-
mous—but as a man he is to be admired and
pitied, like the third goose in the children's
folk rhyme: one flew east and one flew west,
and one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
—BILL PERKINS
ogy majors. In high school she was a mem-
ber of the National Honor Society.
She graduated from Dallas' W. W. Sam-
uell High School, where she was also active
in the Blue Jackct, a sorvice organization,
Quill and Scroll and choir.
Miss Bird went to school in Dallas through
the ninth grade in special education classes.
She then went to the state school for the
blind in Austin for a year and a half be-
cause there were no special classes in the
public schools. She played the trumpet in
the band while in Austin.
After the special classes were established
in the public schools she came back to Dallas,
was graduated, and then went to Tyler Jun-
ior College a year before coming to North
Texas.
Horseback riding, water skiing, collecting
pennies, reading fiction and listening to all
types of music on her stereo are just a few
of Miss Bird's favorite pastimes.
Miss Bird is proudest of her stereo, which
she worked for and paid out by herself. She
worked in a button factory in summers be-
tween school terms. She has approximately
$.'100 worth of long-playing albums with
everything from Beethoven's Fifth to jazz
by Louis Armstrong.
Being blind doesn't keep her from enjoy-
ing sports. She likes to water ski because it
gives her the "feeling of flying"—until she
falls into the water.
She came to North Texas because it had
strong departments in the fields in which she
might want to major, English or psychology.
Actually, she ended up with a double major
in both fields.
Even though she takes notes in class in
Braille with a slate which fits over the pa-
per and a stylus which many people call a
puncher, some people don't notice that she
is taking notes with a stylus. For instance,
one day she dropped her stylus nnd the girl
sitting next to her reached down, picked it
up and said, "Here's your pencil," without
ever noticing the difference.
Coffee Cup
'Coo/' World Replaces
Warmth of Spring Fever
By CARL LEATHERWOOI)
The days when "bare trees imprinted the
black lace of their twigs on a gray and som-
ber sky" have gone. And the season just
arrived on a campus with a clear and bubbly
pond has spread an ailment reaching epide-
mic proportions. Even John Sappington's
"Theory and Treatment of Fevers" lists no
cure for the gripping disease commonly
called spring fever.
Spring moves northward at the average
rate of about 15 miles a day. At the moment
it has not quite reached the midway point
of its yearly journey over the United States.
Storybook' Land Struggles
Against Real Life' Threats
By KAREN GOODMON
Many of the Southeast Asinn nations—
Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia—have received at-
tention in national headlines as Communists
and nationalists hattle it out for govern-
ment control. Another of these nations is
having its own problem with the Reds.
Thnilnnd is still the ancient land of tinkl-
ing golden temple bells and "The King and
I," but, almost unnoticed, Red Chinese agents
and guerrillns nre snipping away at Thai-
land's border with Laos, a two-thirds Com-
munist-controlled country. They simply wade
or paddle across the muddy and unpatrolla-
ble Makong River to tell the isolated peas-
ants that the Bangkok government steals
their rice and Americans kill their children.
Recently Royal Thai troops uncovered a
settlement called "Vegetable Village," one
of a reported 19 Chinese Communist indoc-
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Entered an •^iind-ebu," matter April 18. l 4 .
at the Pnat Office at Denton. T*iaa. under tb«
Act of March *. 187*
Raprreented by Natlanal Advartlalnr Sarrteaa.
tnc Rubacrtptinn ratea,
delivered by mall II plua tax
trination centers that are spotted through-
out Thailand.
One top Western official who has made a
dozen trips into the outlying areas said that
if infiltration continues at the present rate,
in a few years "the Communists will not
only control solitary villages, but 50-mile-
wide regions."
The Bangkok government seemed oblivi-
ous to the problem, or perhaps just ignored
it, until a few years ago when vigorous Sarit
Thanarat became prime minister. Sarit im-
mediately began action to combat the situa-
tion. With U. S. foreign aid and jungle war-
fare experts, he has trained the 100,000-man
Royal Thai army as efficient border patrol
guards and counterinsurgency troops.
Most crucial in Sarit's fight against Com-
munist encroachment nre the barren, isolat-
ed areas. In the north and northwest sec-
tions where ThRilnnd meets Burma and
Laos, thousands of pro-Peking Chinese
exiles mingle with Thaiese.
To the northeast, 28.000 Vietnamese re-
fugees of the Indochinese war 10 years ago
remain loyal to Ho Chi Minh, president of
Communist North Vietnam.
In order to penetrate these isolated re-
gions, Sarit has established a sort of "Thai
peace corps." Mobile units have been sent
into the northeast to teach everything from
planting yams to delivering bnbies. Bridges
and roads are being built for better com-
munication. Chiefs of the remote villages nre
being invited to Bangkok for courses in
local government nnd compulsory education
has been raised to aeven years in some
provinces. Literacy is now as high as 64
per cent nnd still rising.
But some Washington officials are wonder-
ing if Sarit is moving fast enough to stop
the steady influx of the Communists and the
theft of guns and ammunition from govern-
ment armories. The fear that Thailand might
become another South Vietnam.
But on Florida beaches ring-billed gulls
flutter in Gulf breezes. Young bald eagles ap-
pear on the Kissimmee Prairie.
Dark water and moss-hung trees charac-
terize the Suwannee River in Georgia, and
also the bayous of Louisiana.
In the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park it is a time of white shadbushees, a
time when acres of
woodland wildflow-
ers nre in bloomi.
Because glaciers did
not reach the area,
the flora is more
varied than in nor-
thern mountains.
Everywhere it is
the season of the
young. Baby cotton-
tail rabbits begin,
one of a host of
creatures bom dur-
ing the warm days
at winter's end.
Naturalist Edwin Tenle made these ob-
servations after a 23-state trip several years
ago.
Time has not changed nature greatly.
Man has. At least he has changed his
natural environment to some extent. He
spends more and more hours under air con-
ditioners as the weather warms each year.
As early as 1500 A.D. Leonardo da Vinci
built a water-driven fan to ventilate a suite
of rooms for the wife of his patron. Another
cooling device, which originated in India
mnny years ago, was the "punka." The punka
was a large fan which extended from the
ceiling nnd was operated manually by pul-
ling a rope.
One fellow attached a series of fins to
his clothing. Operated by his arm and leg
movement, they produced a fanning effect.
Another early inventor had a rocking chair
with hellows which forced an air stream out
n hose over his head.
"Although many instances of conditioning
air to produce such products as candy, gum,
cheese, matches nnd similar items, took
place before 1922. it wns during that year
that the first comfort installation was made
in a theater," w.Htes V. Paul Lang of Car-
rier Air Conditioning Co.
Over one-third of the rooms in major ho-
tels. R0 per cent of all denartment stores,
almost even' major office building, half of
the hospitals' onerating and delivery rooms
and annrnxlmatelv 6 million homes nre air
conditioned, he notes.
Air conditioning mnv cure hay fever, but
it does not successfully treat spring fever,
I have discovered. The units in the Chat
office purr on. "History From 1805" remains
open at the Spanish-American War. the notnt
where I bee-tin reading an hour ago. I lost
the war in a battle with nature.
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