The Stetson Reporter

^7" '.... '-TV.. ■**-•-*__*-, y *•• Florida's Oldest College Newspaper • •• 76th YEAR-NO. 11 DELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18^1962 PRICE 10 CENTS V ■£^^:£''?>^^^ . t. "- X K. •Jr. -v Greek Gab By ANN THOMASON The Christmas spirit has come to all the Greeks. Parties and socials have been in the air' for the last two weeks. Most'organizations are having parties . for under- privledged cbildren, to give'the less fortunate a .Merry Christmas. All the parties on Friday and ' Saturday 'night were held after the Hatter Invitational Tournament to enable all the Greeks to support, the Hatter Five.' , DELTA SIG Delta Sigs- had a big celebration after winning the Green . League football crown. Saturday after- . moon at the house the Delta Sig's aod their dates attended the Pop Warner party for the underprivi- ledged children of DeLand. Pinned last • weekend were brother Skip Taft and -Alpha Xi Karen. Horn. La-laliered during'-lie past week were Rick Gainag- and Alpha'Xi ' Paula. Tondee. LAMBDA CHI ' The AlpliaXi's and the Lambda Chi's had a party for the under- priviedged children - of Volusia county last night at the Lambda Chi bouse. Afterwards, there was a stag O-ristmas party for. all the actives and . pledges. - Saturday, might after the basketball tournament, the Lambda Ohi's amid their dates went.over to the- bouse for a -©card party and smacks. PI KAPP The annual Pi Kapp "Mud Hole" party in which the pledges, try to throw the actives fa-'a big mud puddle took .place this weekend. Sunday night the Pi Kapps bad their annual Christmas party., The mew .officers for next semester - were elected last week. They are: Bill Keown, Ardhon; Turner Matthews, Treasurer; _Tpank 'West, Secretary; Bruce Haulman Historian; Ed Mulock,, Warden; and Charles Bugg, Chaplain. . PIKES The Pifces have gone inactive until after the Christmas holidays. ' Mel and 'Tri. Delt Phyllis Hedrick were Pinned. SIGMA NU The Sigma -Nu's toad a record party after the.basketball games • on Friday- and " Saturday night. Brother Floyd Gladden and Virginia Sporbase, Alpha Chi,' were pinned - last week. Tonight nine Snake' pledges . will go active. They are-: Bob- Pasoel,.'Dennis Skeletotn, - DVIifce Watkans, Tony Voas,. Allen' Jennings, Ron. , Mc- Kindrey, Pete Taylor; John Keiper. end Dick Schaefer.- " SIG EP ' 'The Pi Phi's,and the'Sig Ep's had a party for orphans at the - Sig .Ep bouse on Saturday.afternoon. 'On Saturday, night they bad their .annual' .• Gbri_.tanas banquet, and a tea.for the faculty on Sunday afternoon. 7 The. Sig .Ep , house motfaer, Mrs."' Ames, is: still in the hospital recovering from a, broken ankle: Lavaliered last- week - weire Jeff Davis arid Tri-Delt Bev. <Sa_n) ■ Finney.'. ,' SORORITIES The Panhelenic council' bas changed their ' Cbriistmas project from giving food to needy families to buying Christmas presents.for the Underpriviedged children in the Welfare Home in Daytona. Each-sorority' was given" a Mst of . names to buy gifts for. ALPHA CHI . The Alpha Chi's -went, singing on' ' Friday night at the. Volusia Nursing Home.'Last Wednesday "night - thie'actives and .pledges'had their annual Christmas party. ' The pledge, of. the month . is-. Bonnie Moffat arid the active of the month is Margie McCree.' - ■' ■ ' ALPHA XI The Fuzzies aire going (__iri_tmas j (Continued on Page Two. Stover Hit Is First Try Dr. Gerald Critoph, Stetson, associate professor of American studies who began his theatrical writing when he was in the Boy Scouts, had his first-play on the stage last weekend in Stetson's Stover Theatre. .*.** The drama, "A Long Way. from Home" is the story of a oollege student and his struggle to find himself. Critoph wrote it this summer, although -he had been thinking about it since -be himself was in college. "The problems of Nat (the main character) are' drawn from a classmate of mine while I was at the University, of Rochester," the Stetson professor.'explained. Some of the. problems aire also drawn from students' he has taught in various colleges., " . . MAJOR THEME I suppose the play's major theme is one -1 always thought was extremely important — a person's development, in the ■ years after high school," Critoph said. ■ .This-problem,is largely centered around the attempt on the part of a college student to 'establish a separate identity. • "It seemed to me that in talking to students, this was one of their major problems," the author said. CRITOPH EXPLAINS ' Critopb - explained . that he has seen students who.were overcome by this search and consequently flunked out of oollege or were suspended. "I often wonder if there wasn't something I could have done to keep' them from spoiling their lives,'.' be said. -Dr. Critoph himself takes -the pant of the professor in the Stover production. He * enjoys acting, he said, .although he would also like to sit in the audience to watch Ms own play.' NOT FIRST PLAY "A Long Way from Home" is not the Stetson professor's first full-length play. "I wrote one while I was .in college," he said, ."one of those things you don't like to .re-' veal later." Most of the plays and skits Critoph bas wrirtteri aire comedies. Bis first efforts at serious dramatics oame when he was teaching at Michigan State \ University in a play concerned with the problems of-a lower middle class family who based- much of its life -on social acceptance. ' - • ■ Dr. Critoph would like to present' this play, at Stetson too, but it" must be reworked before being staged. He also'-has an idea for a comedy he would like to .write:-. - MAJOR CONCERN Critoph's major .concern with "A Long -Way from Home", is "making the chaiacrbers, ■ situations, and solutions in the1 play clear enough so the. audience can see them." -. - - -'- -. . * Sigma Beta Chi Elects Officers: . Sigma Beta ■ Chi, * businesswomen's honorary,' met on Tuesday, December 4'in the*1 SUB., Diane Moteair, presided over the meeting. . Election of officers, for the year was held.. They are .as fbl-, lows': Diane Moloar, - president; Paula .Tcnidee, vice-president; Gleoma Tippett, secretary:tr©a: surer; Elizabeth Wick, publicity! Plans were discussed for future meetings and for possible .program speakers. , Further". business included discussion on initiation and membership pins. Colleges Coordinate Study Series The.four Florida private-colleges making up the new Associated Mid-Florida Colleges group — Stetson University, Florida ■ Pres; byterian College, Florida Southern Oollege, and Rollins College — will launch' a ' series of campus- institutes dealing .with international challenges' to the. free world, officials'have announced. The 7 first institute will be held in-February on each campus and deal-.with the impact of Communism on Southeast Asia. -; * . * $9,000 GRANT The new effort at college' cooper- .ation- is being supported initially by a-$9,000:grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Mo. The Florida colleges expect to invite.five distinguished experts on Southeast Asia for the first institute this winter. They will speak to ' students,' faculty, and townspeople in a-series of lectures and seminars. 'Institutes' are planned to ' increase students and public understanding of the people in-critical areas of the world about whom far too little is known, college 'officials feel. " JOINT ENDEAVOR ' The joint endeavor is further designed to inform oollege students, faculty members, and citizens of the-impact of Communism .on various - non-Western countries and cultures. . The institutes-will be of benefit to high school teachers who seek accurate factual information about Communism'to use in their social studies ■• courses. Florida state law now requires that such informa-. tion be' included the secondary school. curriculum. NEW GRANT - ■The'new ."Danforth grant follows a-previous three-year grant 'that supported a successful Russian Institute on "Stetson University's DeLand' campus last January" and launched , conferences ' exploring areas of; possible joint. academic cooperation with other colleges., : The Danforth Foundation 'is ah educational foundation designed to- serve education, particularly higher education, and 'spiritual values' in higher education. It was-chartered in St. Louis in 1927 with funds, from Mr. .and Mrs.'-- William "H. Danforth. . ' . Article Praised Dr. Cyril D.. Garrett,' executive vice president and dean of East- em' Baptist 7 College . in Penn-1 sylvania, bas expressed his ap-. pred-ation to Dean W. - Hugh McEniry Jr. of Stetson University for his • article "The Mission - of a Christian University" ^in the fall issue of the Stetson Letter.. Garrett said-the article was such a clear statement that he was requesting additional copies of the issue which! he might distribute to bis divisional chairmen. Spark Ignites Grease i-i ses '< ..-".'!-.'"ii; ! -h'"'.i. Jii.'Li ii ij N'Jll I'ilSjif^liiilt] Alert Students Prevent Damage BY-ART SKIBBE A small grease firebroke out in the Hat Rack at 12:45 . p.m. Sunday,, approximately on the eighth anniversary of the fire that destroyed the cafeteria during the Christmas vacation in 1954 ' ' Roy C. King, manager of the Morrison's Cafeteria and; soda shop explained that nobody was in the Hat Rack' at the time; iilllEllllldliillii ii, ■ lll!ll!ll)l||fl|Hll! 1 , II M I lilllllill . One of the Hat Rack employees cleans up the deep-fat fryer and grill after Sunday's small but smoky fire. The Hat Rack was opened in the afternoon due to the quick and' efficient work of sever al Stetson students in bringing, the fire under-control. ' . • - -"-,-- Four College S.E.Asian * Talks In Feb Four associated mid-Florida colleges have announced a new cooperative" approach which will bring- to each, campus institutes dealing with- the "International Challenges . to the ' Free World." Cooperating in this program are. Stetson,. Rollins, Florida Southern, and- Florida. Presbyterian. -The Institute will be on the Stetson campus February 6-8, and it will deal with the impact of communism on Southeast Asia. The colleges concerned are planning • to - invite > five dis-' ■tinguished speakers who are experts on Southeast Asia., On each campus," they will speak to' students, faculty members, - and townspeople who may be interested. The- Institute- is planned to- increased student ahd public understanding of-the people and problems in this critical area of the world, "an area about .which far too little is known. The Institute has a further purpose of - informing -students, faculty members, and citizens of the impact of communism on these 7 non-western countries, and cultures. Be on the lookout for the Southeast Asia Institute here on .the Stetson .campus February 6-8. Pinner Speaks •The Rev. Tom Pinner, pastor of First Baptist Church,' Bunnell, and a graduate of Stetson University, spoke at Vesper Services Tuesday evening at'6:30 in -bJtoa ifc__ cm the DeLand campus. McEniry Says ission The mission* of- Stetson' University and of all Christian colleges is to "witness for their faith," according to Dr. W. Hugh McEniry Jr., Stetson 'dean of the university.- In an article, in the .fall issue of the Stetson Letter, university quarterly just released,-McEniry says Christian colleges . are, faomg trying _ days.' The Stetson--dean points out how shocking the realization- is that today an ■. increasing' number , of civic-- and educational - leaders' believe there -will be no Christian colleges within 25 years. ,- " - ■Educational authorities' predict,- MoEhdry says,"- that the costs of .an education, will become sogreat the only colleges surviving will be those .which are' tax; supported or those .catering to the financially favored. These people .also believe that ■ Americans are no longer interested in Christian education. PURPOSE IN GOD -But Stetson University, and all Christian colleges like bar,, assert that knowledge finds its only meaning and purpose in God, the Stetson dean declares. ' ,. -• A Christian campus' bas four purposes, McEniry writes in the Stetson Letter. It is a campus which strives:" (1) to instruct rigorously from its faith, (2) to. stimulate further pursuit of knowledge within that faith, (3) to establish a (Continued on Page Two) -/■■NOTICE-' •:; Some students-have'shown -an- interest in having coffee .hours with' the faculty members of the' various- academic departments and - disciplines ■ represented ' at Stetson' to - discuss the nature * of ■ .the."' certaon ,' departments' programs,! the courses' that' are offered,' and the .reasons why other specific courses, are not offered. , Such meetings would promote active student'interest .in the departments, , help -the , faculty to know -what additional courses the students . are interested' in having offered, and further the student- faculty relatioittships on campus. - Programs of this type are being planned now, but. it is; necessary to know what pa_iM.cul.a-. departments the students-are eager to discuss.-Anyone, who is interested in -, meeting .with any department please drop a note to box 743 with the name of that department. If you are shy, you need not sign the note. , .and the gri! was turned on, being warmed tip prior to opening for the afternoon.• ' ",*''•;,. '.„ '1 "One of the employees .. here .came in to tell me, that the place was on fire," be said. King, went out of the .cafeteria and met Pres. J. Ollie Edmunds/ King said., Dr. Edmunds . .sug-. - gested that'the' fire rie^put-but .with- sand, and-five or six students began bringing-in trays Med-with sand and throwing them on the fire. GREASE SPLATTERS "At first, the grease splattered when the , sand was thrown -upon it, and it appeared that .the fire - rriigbt spread," said . Dan' Peterson, one of the students trying to help put out the fire. But, as the students brought in more and more sand, the blaze gradually died, down, and when the fire, department arrived, the fire was almost out. It had only burned for- approximately"-. 15 minutes. -. - - Firemen quenched what remained of the fire and checked the building completely to make sure the fire was dead and would not break out,again. . . ' '■■'-- - GRILL BURNED . -- ' The damage-was greater than" at first expected S. King' ■ explained.1 The grill was burned badly: ■ "Besides that, the" wiring was burned, and considerable • damage was done to the.-.fan. in the roof," he added. ■;--- ■- ' •• - -i-~ ' " *'7 ■' Insurance should cover the-damage, the* amount of which 'will riot be known'- for several days.', _. The only, interruption' in the routine of the- Hat Rack, King ad-. ded, will be that hot sariwitihes and frendh. fries will not be served until the, grill; .is either repaired or replaced. -'-* '*,'.,'*-.- REMAIN OPEN It will remain open through its usual hours) and everything "'except the previous mentioned foods will be served.'-- , " ' ' The entire- Union;-- Building, Cafeteria, bookstore, - - -and -• soda shop are supposed to be "fireproof, although judging .from' past * ex; perience, it is- possible -that "the fire might have spread.-'.--■ - -' . About four years ago the ceiling of the student lounge" caugMt fire and was' damaged-so badly it had- to be completely replaced, and exT tensive damage was done to the guest rooms above it. - Luckily, due to the quick action of several students, further damage was averted in, the Hat Rack. • ■ ■' -■■ - - Stetson Receives . Richard and Gilma Nunez, brother and sister,- were residents of' Guantanamo - City, Cuba, ten short months ago. . 'Today, after fleeing from their native country, they are members of tbe freshman class on Stetson University's DeLand campus. '' "Beiove the revolution," explained .Richard, "my father had a loan company, factories, and property, but Castro confiscated them." Now, Richard's father is "buying and selling all sorts of supplies of bicycles and motor-- cyoles." ANXIOUSLY AWAITING Richard-and Gilma are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their parents, and feel that their mother' will be released shortly, although their - father will have to remain in Cuba for a longer period bf time. Richard said his mother has been -waiting' to leave Cuba ever - since be and his sister' applied for their., visas, ■ over two - years ago. "If they, want you to leave," he, said, "they tell.you.'when. If they don't want you to leave, -they never tell you anything." ;: THEY WERE LUCKY ; '; ■ Gilma is 20,' and Richard is 19.'. •The" "two' were lucky to. get ■, to 'A-i-erica. because they had been selected, to be; sent to Russia for • training by the Communis-ts.. When Gilma and Richard left Cuba, they were allowed to take only.a few-clothes. Richard' was , allowed three . shirts', three pairs - of pants,, and .one-pair, of- shoes...' •Anyone- caught ■ trying ■ to leave with money is immediately thrown in jail, in Castro's Cuba, according to the Nunezs. The law specifies -io years, in prison for this of-" fense. ; ., EVERYTHING LEFT .. ...Everything' left, behind by the refugees is taken by the-so-called • •revolutionary government, Richard said.' - - Richard and Gilma left .Cuba after-obtaining visas-and the necessary-documents in a Pan American airplane under the direction of the government.. "If they, catch you trying-to leave in-a boat, they kill you," they .aid. . 15 DAYS FOR MAIL It takes approximately 15 day's for an airmail letter to get from Richard and Gilma at Stetson to (Continued on Page Two) Ilk