THE AWS CO-ED TEST & ROBERTOREG'S INTERPRETATION OF THE ILLUSTRATED MAP PRINTED ON THE INSIDE COVER OF THE 1966 COROLLA which includes THE CHUKKER as an off-campus destination.


The Formative Years of the TUSCALOOSA WOMEN'S MOVEMENT circa 1969

 from Earl Tilford's TURNING THE TIDE https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A536389103&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=e202ba30

 

"One of the most important factors in the Machine's success was its ability to self-replicate, maintaining a line of succession that ensured its continued leadership on campus. A March 28, 1968, Crimson-White expose revealed that then-SGA President Don Siegelman had selected Joe Espy, a Kappa Sigma, as his successor based on Siegelman's belief that the handsome Espy would win the female vote. The article also revealed Espy, Siegelman and Knowles were all Machine members, collaborating to maintain control of student government. A side bar identified other campus leaders likewise connected and stated that the number of top fraternities had grown to at least ten. Despite the exposure, Espy overwhelmed Ed Still, his independent opponent, 2,240 to 638.3[R] Throughout the decade, the Machine's power ensured that leadership on campus remained white, male, and relatively conservative.

"Despite the staying power of the Machine and its membership, the Greek system, like the larger campus community, was affected by the social turmoil that wracked the nation in the late 1960s, particularly the ongoing civil rights struggle and the intensifying resistance to American involvement in Vietnam. In March 1965, when Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters Anne Brownback and Carol Ann Self, both sophomores, discussed joining demonstrators in Selma, their more senior sisters threatened to lift their pins and those of any other members who participated in civil rights demonstrations.

Despite being a university cheerleader in 1965 and 1966, Carol Self became increasingly disenchanted with sorority life. She joined antiwar Democrat Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign in late 1967, and in 1969, while a graduate student, she became a founding member of the Tuscaloosa Women's Movement. Consequently, when Carol's little sister sought to follow her sister and pledge the sorority, a Kappa active blackballed her membership to prevent her from entering the sisterhood. (39)

"Although Anne and Carol did not go to Selma, a small number of students and faculty members, led by Art Department chairman

"Professor Theodore "Ted" Klitzke, briefly joined the demonstrators. President Rose received numerous letters and telegrams demanding the professors involved be fired and the students who attended be expelled. His response was a form letter assuring the complaining correspondents the university was "giving this problem the attention it deserves." (40) No action was taken; the administration treated such involvement as an expression of academic freedom.

"In April 1965, shortly following the events in Selma, the Sigma Chi chapter at Stanford University pledged a black rushee. The national headquarters quickly suspended the chapter's charter. (41) Anticipating potential problems, President Rose queried each sorority to ask if their membership policies contained racial proscriptions. Every sorority denied discriminating based on race, some more artfully than others. Alpha Chi Omega, for instance, replied that while it had "no written or unwritten statements or policies specifically inhibiting selection on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin," its national office expected each chapter to "be guided by our heritage and ... national image." (42) Rose, aware of traditions in his own Kappa Alpha Order, did not bother to query fraternities. Rose also knew Sigma Nu bylaws forbade membership to candidates of African or Asian descent. Sigma Chi discriminated more adroitly by requiring that members be acceptable in every chapter house, including those in Dixie"

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from the May 26, 2002 TUSCALOOSA NEWS 

from the October 5, 1958 TUSCALOOSA NEWS

 

Most of the 17 and one half inch by 12 inch illustrated campus map from the inside cover of the 1966 COROLLA including all of the southeast portion of  illustrated campus  map.

1966 CAMPUS MAP with old Tutwiler Hall and pre-348 telephone numbers.

Enlargement of the bottom portion of the map located in the seam of the COROLLA's cover. Words on the margin of the map indicated off-the-campus-map destinations. Those looking for FOOD and THE CHUKKER are advised to travel west down "University Avenue." The building labeled "P.D." with a long line of students in front labeled "PAY PARKING TICKETS" is Gorgas Hall the University Police Headquarters. The building on the lower right is the Deke House with jocks working out in the back alley.

Enlargement of Wood's Quad. In the upper left corner, there appears to be a baby in a stroller parked in the Wood's Hall parking lot. Along the upper margin between Wood's Hall and Garland Hall, a giant tube of paint has been squeezed with the contents spilling on the Quad. The "MODEL" labels a figure that appears to have six legs and poses to the left of a canvas on an easel which is the target of an artist throwing darts. In the upper right, a ladder is positioned against the front of Garland Hall and a co-ed is tracking paint after walking over a paint pallete. A skull and crossbones flag flies from the front of Clark Hall (Arts & Sciences). Two bearded artists walk in front of Clark and Manly Halls carrying canvases. One of them is smoking. The lower left portion of Woods Hall is labeled "Li'l Bo". Students eat hotdogs and contemplate the contents of a sandwich. A dog sits slobbering as the students eat their sandwiches. The lower left is the front to Comer Hall and to its right is the Gorgas Oak. At the intersection with Campus Drive across from Barnard Hall (AF ROTC), a giant octopus has come out of the storm sewer manhole cover to grab a co-ed's leg who was walking next to the traffic barriers for sewer repairs.

This enlargement shows a little more of the Wood's Quad area. Along the left margin you see the Comer Hall smokestack blazoned with a "1" and with a Batman caped character standing on top of the smokestack. The right side of the enlargement shows Gorgas Library with the evergreens in front. 1966 was back when they had closed stacks so the library building is labeled "On reserve", "faculty only", "Lost", "At the binders", "can't find it", "checked out" and "FORGET IT."

The upper left of this enlargement shows the old Smith Woods ROTC buildings located where Math/Psych and the "new" Biology Building now stand. The old DCH School of Nursing that was converted to Early Childhood research is to the right. Midway along the upper margin is the student infirmary with a cemetery in the front, a body on a stretcher and a patient leaning with a crutch labeled "CURED" next to a sign that reads "Aspirin Only." Snuffy Smith stands on top of Lloyd Hall (Chemistry Building-distillation of beverage alcohol) and an exploding boiling flask is coming out of the roof. A student with a butterfly net jumps over the greenhouse behind Nott Hall (Biology) while another examines something with a magnifying glass. A crooked telescope shoots an imaginary laser path towards the direction of the co-eds sunbathing on the roofs of the co-ed dormitories. To the upper right of the street labeled "University Avenue", you see the labels "Dex" and "Food" referring to Druid Drug. "Gorilla House" probably refers to the jock dorm (Bryant Hall) which opened in 1965.

Enlargement of the southwest portion of the Quad and old Tutwiler Hall co-ed dormitory

In the upper left hand corner, a group of ROTC cadets raise the American flag "Iwo Jima"-style. A couple to the right of the flag lounges on the Quad as the guy holds the girl's ankle. Lower down on the Quad, someone is being tapped for Jasons with a bucket of dirty water above the title "THE REWARD." Across the street from the Quad, along the lower left margin, the old Administration Building is labeled "Out House". A student being hauled out on a stretcher is labeled "O.9999" which probably refers to a low grade point average that would bring on expulsion. To the right of the old administration building stands Graves Hall (present-day Autherine Lucy Hall) with an apple on the roof. Across University Avenue is the old Union Building with a "Keep Off" sign on the dome, the zip code of the post office housed there. Someone has climbed to the top of the Union's television antenna and is dropping spheres on the cars driving down Colonial Drive. Doster Hall(home-ec) appears to be on fire. On University Avenue, a pedestrian has been run over just west of Denny Chimes and a multi-car pileup blocks the road in front of old Tutwiler Hall. The President's Mansion is labeled "IN HOUSE" with an outhouse behind it adorned with a television antenna. New Hall is labeled "Old New Hall" with the walls being held up with support timbers. Below New Hall is the Nursery with a playground beside it. The upper right corner has the Million Dollar Band practicing with a group of spectators made up of co-eds who were playing croquet behind Barnwell Hall (Women's gym). Another co-ed is shooting an arrow at a target. In the lower right is sorority row. A co-ed carrying a champagne glass walks out of the Alpha Gam house. The KD house flies an Rx flag and the Chi O house is represented as a steamboat. The Tri-Delt house is a merry-go-round with a co-ed reaching for a ring beside a Playboy rabbit standing nearby. A co-ed hangs dirty laundry behind the DZ house.

ROBERTOREG'S FAVORITE IMAGES FROM THE 1966 COROLLA BAMA MAMMOTHS