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east Carolina college, greenville, n. c, tuesday, march 30, 1965 number 41 Ku Klux Klan Holds Rally, Entertains 2000 Spectators "LBJ bad better attend to Walter Jenkins and Bobby Baker instead of worrying about Alabama clam- ored a principle speaker at the Ku Klux Klan rally in Greenville Satur- KROSSIn their typical stle, the Klu Klux Kian burns the cross. The KKK meeting was hold outside Greenville Saturday students, with their avid curiosity made the scone. Progress Motivates Change In Lanuaje Requirements the process of 's college to This ment is : d g, ('h tir- 3 b . a at e student in- high - he is re- tiona hours ki the mply her , tinent Director nds Conference s e4 toi at I n - & aj tern the om- .old in inual meet- i of South' ist- e, Va 11 formui te necom- em n Ph ; ducat am in bio- a ill be the secretary : oup ctnsiderin,2 biology in education program in the colleges and universities. schools .n the state. Since we are a state school, n is only natural that we be compared to other state institut ons Mr. Fleming says. Am ther move in this process of idardization is the use of de- pai'tmenl A and national tests in for- nguages. The students pi - method if his class m ves dowry. As Air. Flem tys, 'All new rule- and tests are tuted with the student in mind. ey will profit in the long run . singly. East Carolina is still below mai. schools in the state in reign language requireme sample, Duke University calls mester hours for an A.B. and 8-24 for th B.S. Although has no B.S. language require- ment, Mr. Fleming has been ad- ting such a move for a num- r of years. Noting the slowness of K" to in- its foreign language require- me' Mr. Fleming believes we mply were not ready for such a move b fore. "By first strengthen- our liberal arts program, we lay imdation for increasing the 'v o: special zed fields such as uage or science. I believe we are now ready for the next step The attitude concerning the mas- of languages has changed re- cently in academe circles. Before, mall U'c of two or three 1 m- was sufficient for an edu- the accent on graduate h is made proficiency in one language r y Por the pros- e applicant. "Our language department is grow- iv yearly and next y lar we will have L7 faculty members, including seven who speak with native fluency. Few people realize the extent of our growth in the past five years Mr. Fleming concluded. ;v night. The regional raii" attracted an eisti- m ted 2C00 onlookers to a muddy rnfield on the New Bern high- way tn the wake of the present con troversy concerning the seerel or- ' .at.on. b Johnson was the pj i 1- .et of the six spe; kers who d " the platform with bi denunciations of the Negro move- ment. Johnson's statement earlier this week calling r olishment the Kl1. n n 1 crilicism from ; b Jon . the ' : olina. 0 Several I!v ni min ters on the program decried the moral today. N ting the t in m oi v ne speaker stated that she I ad childr a. a k ng up-or w hat- want to cail Lth the s. He added in jest th who shot her instead of KKK mem- bers One hooded speaker spoke of the Communist infiltration of the Negro ftevolu. i i . nd hinted h a "Martin LuLhei Coon" was . nked to the ( mmunisl Party. Num 'ous E Car tudents a ; e in the curious crov d. Of spe- esl the El' stu !ents were re ierenci - to tin r in- Lituti- n oni' in a derogratory vein 'even to ; - po i of calling individi . . m "East CaroTna Col has i. adition illy been a consei val school but now even it is . one spe tker. The climax to the rally was the cross burning. Ala r closing benadiction, the hooded r re e 1 the symbo V i - 5 ' The Old Rugged Cr . 1 thr a ah the speakers. V. .of th? Klan's newspaper "The Fiery MCross Also a collection wias taken to "provide funds for the work of the Klan V !i into a moul : - Klansmen tng th rcl - - into i'v cir( cour e ' rature was distr i owdincluding m :m ns, pamphlei Playhouse & Music School Present ?The Maojc Flute' By CAROLYN SIIEPPARO Mozart's The Magic Flute which s a comic opera, will be presented hrough the combined efforts of the . C. Playhouse and the School of usic on April 1 and 2. Th - production will be staged ay Douglas Ray of the Drama Department. Music will be fur- nished by Gene Strassler of the School of Music. John Sr.eeden. who is in charge of the scenery, and George Schreinger who is the lighting designer, will use ther t dents to turn the stage into a delightful fiantasv-land which is :he setting for The Magic Flute The Magic Flute" is not at all n ordinary production. Don't be surprised when a dragon appears on the stage, or when a fire burns brightly 'Thank goodness the pro- duction won't be in Old Austin : m antins split apart. One kes place in the of a pyramid. Tamino, who is played by Bill New- berry, is a prince who is lost in an unusually strange land. He is befriended by a bird catcher Papo- geno who is played by Kelly Alex- aider. Through Papogeno, the prince meets the Queen of the Night played by Jane Frazier. She char Tamino to rescue her daughter. Pamina. who is played by Georgia Wl . esko. Pamina was torn from her ther by her father. 9airastro, who s played by Mike Pittard. To complicate things. Sarostro's erv nt. Monostatus. played by John- ny Berry, has decided that Pamina should be his. As in all fairy tales. the: e are a multitude of triads awaiit- mg Tamico as he searches for Pamina. Famed Orchestra Performs At EC . inw 1 Paris Chamber Or- - pei' ' . j: in Austin rium. Kuentz ' - oist. Kuent 's : i by Torelli. ncerto in G M I i nova nent fore m s- s C ! " nee r's 'u Ca : ie rem ere Michael ) - Marie Gamaj I s: and Monique bYasca-Colombier, violin. College Varsity Band Performs In Concer The arsity band under the ti n of George W. Knight 11 be presented in concert here tomorrow night in Wright auditorium. The ; gram begins at 8:15 pan. Musical numbers to be inch in the presentation include "When Jesus Wept "Chester Overture 'Dawning is the Glorious Day "The Sound of Music "The V ished Army Maih and "Manhat- tan Beach March A special feature of the program will he "Fiasco conducted by its composer. Mr. James Parnell of the Bast Carolina facultv. "THE MAGIC FLUTE"This is the scene of the forthcoming opera that opens here Thursday night. The time of meeting is 8:00 p. m. in McGinnis Auditorium. In case you do not have a chance to see this comic opera on Thursday niht, there will be a second presentation on Friday nighr. The opera is being presented through the combined efforts of the East Carolina Playhouse and the School of Music. Expectations are for an even- ing of enjoyable entertainment. Reclining on the sofa in the above picture is Georgia Mizesko who stars as Pamina. Kneeling is Monostatus who is portrayed by John Berry. Standing to the former's right is Jane Frazier, "Queen of the Night 2east Caroliniantuesday, march 30, 1965 Klan Klamor Reminiscenses The Klu Klux Klan has displayed their talents at Green- ville. Some odd 2000 persons, mostly curious onlookers, gather- ed just outside this town on the New Bern highway Saturday night. . .watched the Klan zo through a list of speakers and burn their traditional cross. Cries of white supremacy rang out above the murmur of the crowd. Well, there's constantly something different and usually exciting going on about East Carolina. But this was entertain- ment at its best Yes, the Klan moved in. . .did their little song and dance (literally). . .and left. What did they leave? There was a small pile of ashes. They had burned their traditional cross. There was literature passed about. . .certain- ly one of the biggest wastes of ink and paper in the history of nan. And there were the words, spoken by "The Grand Dragon of North Carolina and Other Good Speakers It isn't believed that they disturbed Cicero's oratory reputation to any great ex- tent. . .but if attempted agitation is any measure, they cer- tainly tried. In 'The Fiery Cross the official publication of the KKK, a picture of a Negro boy and an elderly lady was run. This picture was four columns wide and about ten inches deep. The two pictured were doing some type of dance. . .not the "Bird" or "Jerk" but a dance of tradition. The caption under this picture said: "Us now got Civil Rights, us also sittin' on de stool wich ye. Us cat in' up town wich ye. Us got mos' de politichuns. From the feels I has in my arms now, yo husband bettar looks out And so the KKK story goes. The group put particular emphasis upon intermarriage of the races. What the caption had to do with the picture. . .only the individual viewer may decide. The only purpose that the Klan might use as an excuse to meet and agitate is typified by this picture. The Klan is of value in only two possible ways. To fall to the absurd right. . .the radical idiot extreme. . .in an effort to pull the left, which is now in the more advantageous posi- tion, toward the middle of the road, and to give ignorant and deprived, poor whites, who stand at the bottom of the socio- economic ladder a chance to -belong" and to maintain their white supremacy myth. If this is so. . .they have and will continue to fail miser- ably. The only move that such a meeting could possibly get out of the left now, is even toward a more extreme left! The Klan says. . .look at me, I know the way. . we are the righteous They have forgotten (or never knew) that the man that calls himself the righteous is the man to beware of in any situation. Oh. and by the way. . .East Carolina was mentiond in dur- ing the Klan's little get-together. East Carolina was called a traditionally Conservative school. . .but now it was stated that we are integrated, which in anyone's mind. . .automatically means that the school has dropped into the ultra-conservative column. The righteous Knights of the Klan pointed to individuals on the campus. The individuals. . .our Negro cohorts were pub- licly called names that would instantly get anyone thrown into the callaboose. But these hooded agitators got away with slander and outright indecency. It is easy to understand why President Johnson has asked for legal action against this group. There is one more point to be made. We hear so much about the civil rights demonstrations being in direct defiance to the United States Constitution and to the individual liber- ties. What is the Klu Klux Klan? east Carolinian Publmhed semiweekly by the students of East Carolina ColWe Greenville. North Carolina Member Carohnas Collegiate Press Association Associated Collegiate Press Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Layout Editor Becky ogood Kay Smith. Joanne Williamson News Editor John A very Larry Brown Nellie Lee Pam Hail Editorial Editor Bob Brown Benny TeeL Franceine Perry. Bob Camp bell. Walter Hendricks. Jeanne Starter, John Phanter 5rrts Editor Randy Ryan Jim Cox. Fred Campbell. George More- head Features Editor Clara Katsiaa Nancy Martin. Joyce Tyson. Carolyn Sheppard Steve Thompson. Henry Walden. Donnie Lamb. Carl Stout Greek Editor Amy Rooker, Anita Zepul Subscriptions Gayle Adams Proofreaders Terry SheHon, Bobbl Rath. Ihanne Small, Kay Roberta Typists Cookie Sawyer, Doris BeU Ida campen. Janice Richardson Faculty Adrisor Wyatt Brown Photographs by j Branaon Subscription rats: 15.00 per Offices on third floor of Wright Building ailing Address: Box 2516. East Carofina College Station. Greenrffle, North Carolina Telephone, all departments. PL 1-5716 or 753-4426, exteasioa tf4 Last summer wrule emjel in Washington, D. C. I .ZBL lege of becoming acquired wh a former Hungarian Freedom r igr er. On several occasions, my nev. friend shared with me his experi- ences in the Hungarian revolution Forunatehy, his superb mastery oi English well enabled him to articu- late in vivid narration his evalua- tions oi the tragedy. Carl explained in one such discus- sion period that Americans often misinterpret the situation m wnicn a non-communist functions within a communist satellite country Let us consider, for example, the matter of the constant shortage of material goods. The more affluent Westerners feel that the captive peoples of such nations are often conscious of the scarcity of high quality goods plus the exorbitant prices they must pay in order to purchase them. On the contrary, most people sel- dom contemplate this state of affairs in the fashion in which we are led to believe they do. This is easy for us to