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Poqe Two
COLLEGIATE
December 2
Let’s Get Organized
One of the most disturbing predicaments on this campus
for many students is at that time when he is asked or anxiously
asks for himself what the system of class cuts are.
The simple answer is evident for us: there is no system.
Seemingly, there has been a tradition on this campus
to leave the method up to the discretion of the professor. This,
in many instances, has left the student in the dark as to how
many cuts are allowed. Some professors permit a certain num
ber and explain it clearly to their classes, some professors per
mit a certain number and never discuss the matter with their
students, other professors and instructors voice that they, too,
are at odds as to what procedure to make concerning various
Several out-of-state students were quite upset, having no
absences thus far in the semester, to learn that some professors
would count an abence immediately before or after the Thanks
giving holidays as a double cut. Again, this is sporadic among
the faculty and students are becoming more confused.*
When an out-of-state student saves up what he believes
to be a minimum of cuts in order to visit home, it is not right
that he suffer double cuts when he has taken class attendance
seriously.
Whether or not the student is to benefit from 2 or 3
cuts being allowed during a semester possibly remains for further
di.scussion, but whatever approach is taken concerning this prob
lem, it .should be systematic and concretely established.
We call upon the administration and faculty of Atlantic
Christian to adopt a system which will not leave the student
guessing and wandering in uncertainty due to an approach far
subordinate to other institutions.—TR
From Barbs To Bouquets
Congratulations for a little light on the subject at Hack
ney hall. Someone has removed the dark at the top of the stairs.
On behalf of William Inge and the men of the dorm (including
those who are still suffering from wounds and cuts) we thank
you!—Make a sincere effort to see the production this weekend
by ‘The Bishop’s Company’. If you can fit it in your schedule,
it should be well worth your time.—Maybe our taste is deceiv
ing us, but we think there was real mayonaise in the cafeteria
recently. Cheers! You’re doing a fantastic job, gang!—About
this time in the semester, many get downhearted. Here’s a quote
that may help. ‘Oftimes the test of courage becomes rather to
live than to die’—Aifieri expounded that little gem!—There are
ten more days of classes before the holidays.—No dancing in the
street, please. YET!—AL
Barber Shop Observations
The boastful tones and words of self-praise poured forth
from the rich man’s mouth like a heavy September rain. He
crawled down from the barber chair as if it were a throne and
he the new king. Now, the coronation was over; he was going
to bless the humble subjects who stood about him awed by such
regal splendor. The man ran his aged hand through his white
hair staring at his fat reflection in a full-length mirror. He
took his change from the barber and handed back a dollar.
“That’s for a good job, boy,” he muttered.
'Then, he walked over to the manicurist who put down
a “True Confessions” long enough to flash him an artificial
smile. The man complained of an annoying raveling on the back
of his silk shirt. The woman opened a little kit and pulled out
a pair of sissors. She turned and casually clipped the string
from the collar of the shirt. Then, she put her chubby hand
against her neck breathing heavily as if the tremendous task
had simply sapped all of her strength. The man pulled out a
dollar and a fifty cent coin. Before he could drop the gift into
her hand, she motioned carelessly to the drawer which was still
opened. He dropped his tip onto a stack of paper bills which
she had collected earlier. She slammed the drawer shut, flash
ed him another artificial smile and drawled a “thank you” in
a southern accent which even Faulkner couldn’t capture.
"Did Larry get my shoes from the car?” the man asked
turning. The Negro shoe shine boy, a man in his late forties
came forth holding the newly polished loafers. “Sorry I had to
park so far away,” the elderly man laughed. “Three blocks is a
close as I could get.” The Negro nodded and dropped the keys
to the Lincoln in the awaiting hand. “Still raining outside, eh?”
the rich man asked with only a vague interest. Again, the Negro
nodded,
“Thank you, Larry”, the rich man dropped a brand new,
shinny 1937 quarter into the shine boy’s hand and pocketed his
keys. The Negro tinkled it softly in his pocket with the other
nickels and dimes he’d collected.
He brushed the white man’s coat a litUe more vigorous
ly than was necessary.
“Well, see you people in 10 days,” the rich man declar
ed and started out the door. The Negro grabbed up his polish
and brushes and stepped out of his way.—^AL
From Where I Sit
Pine Knot Editor
Cooperation Will
- +vȣwnrv that ***
Declares Sweat,
Make Good Book
By SALLY MCLEAN
When approached and asked
to write this column I was de
lighted, because it gives me an
opportunity to let you, the stu
dents and faculty, know the facts
concerning the 1961 Pine Knot.
First, I would like to say that
the editorial staff recognizes that
the annual has not been satis
factory to all concerned in the
past years, and we are trying to
turn out the
best annual At
lantic Christi
an has ever
had. In order
to accomplish
this wish of
ours we must
have your co
operation and
help. Some
people like to
believe the
theory that “dreams come true
or “Wish and it wUl be
These staements are the excep
tion and not the rule. Dreams
and wishes must be made to
come true with a lot of hard work
and sweat. Perhaps, being a col
lege senior, I should use the word
perspiration, but if sweat is what
it takes to produce a good annual,
sweat is what we will use.
When you have ideas about
the yearbook, or if there are
things you don’t like or would
like changed, or additions to the
book, please feel free to express
your opinions and give us your
ideas. Our meetings are held at
6:30 p.m. Mondays in the Art
departmient. Drop in and let us
know what type of book you
want, for after all it is your
book
If i may be permitted to re-
Entertainment
Unlimited
By ALTON LEE JR.
The time of Christmas draws
very near and as always there is
a desire to giVe one’s love ones
some remembrance at the holi
day season. From a strickly en
tertaining standpoint, we’ll make
a few suggestions that perhaps
will aid you in finding a gift that
wiU both show your love as well
as your imagination.
A number of good books are
available this Christmas ranging
from Pat Boone’s ‘Between You,
Me, and the Gatepost’ for teen
agers to a far more serious work
for people of all ages called’
‘Words to Live By’ edited by Wil
liam Nichols. Clifton Fadiman’s
‘The Lifetime Reading Plan’ Ben
nett Cerf’s ‘Out On A Limrick’,
and the usual pictorial calendars
will make interesting and practi
cal gifts.
Records are a good bet if you
seek to please someone of the
younger set. New albums by Bob-
iby Darin, Patti Page, The Plat
ters, Pat Boone, 'The Kingston
Trio, Connie Francis are reaUy
right.
On a more serious side for
those who wish to own albums
that will continue to be popular,
may we suggest the folliwing;
‘Elmer Gantry’ — soundtrack,
an exquisite album by Ferrante
and Teicher(just released) which
is a magnificent adventure with
some of the world’s most me
morable music played beaufiful-
ly.
Two Broadway soundtracks of
particular merit are Lucille
Ball’s ‘Wildcat’ and the satire on
that certain swivel-hip singer,
‘Bye Bye Birdie’.
'There is also a new recording
of Dicken’s Christmas Carol’ as
narrated by Sir Laurence Oliver.
Also, there is a new recording of
the favorite excerpts of Handel’s
‘Messiah’.
TV fans might enjoy a sul>
scription to TV Guide. There is
another magazine which few peo
ple know about called ‘Arizona
Highways’. The printing in this
magazine is of a truly s'uperior
quality and the pictures are
beautiful almost bejond compare.
For novelty gifts, one can chose
from the ‘Peanuts’ dolls, a favo
rite of the young and old. Also,
take a look at literally hundreds
of novelties in stationary stores
and drugstores. These are only
a few ideas if you’re stuck as to
what to give to a favorite per
son or good friend.
Once we start with cruelty
jokes, 'we can’t stop. Here are
some more gems from the first
Max Rezwin collection called
‘Sick Jokes, etc.’ This book or its
successor (Volume II) would
make an interesting gift for one
with a strong stomach.
Here are the Goodies:
Please, Mr. Custer!—‘And how
much would you care to contri
bute to the Indian RefUef Fund,
Mrs. Custer?’
‘Mommy, what’s an Oedipus
Complex? ’
‘Shut up and kiss me.’
‘I don’t care who you are, fat
so. Get them reindeer off my
roof.’
Mommy, where are the marsh-
mellows? Sheldon’s on fire.’
‘Mommy, one of the boys
school called me a sissy.’
‘What did you do;’
‘I hit him with my purse.’
‘Want to lose ten pounds
ugly fat?
‘Sure.’
‘Cut off your head.’
And enough is enoguh!
peat myself, I would like to
again that we are trying
the best we possibly can
what resources we have ^
“With what resourcp^
have”, this phrase is one of n
main controUing factors in 2'
elaborateness of a yearbook S'
are trying to turn out a basiM?
simple yearbook, collegiate •
character, and as free from m'"
takes as possible. After all th'
discussion which went on
beginning of the year, I'blfo!
the student body is aware of
fact that we are working undTr
a budget and a contract, Th^
are some factors, such as cob
pictures, number of pages etc
Which the budget and contrari
regulate, .and we can only put „
the annual what the contract ^
lows. This is a tremendously
limiting factor when you plan aj
annual and miust be taken iZ
consideration when the fimt
product comes off the press
Now the time comes to ‘‘air
a few* gripes”. First, we are
badly in need of working space
We do not have a place to
spread out our equipment aad
supplies and leave them that
way. Each time we work we
have to spread out our supplies
and pack them up when we fin.
ish. This takes a tremendous
amount of time, which could be
spent actually working on the
yearbook. Another thing we bad
ly need is a typewriter. It takes
a great deal of typing'to make
up a yearbook. In order to have
a typewriter to use, workers on
the annual staff mjost transport
their own typewriters back and
forth at each meeting and of
course this is most inconvenient.
One last “gripe” and then i
will leave the subject. I realize
that many people could not have
their pictures made for various
reasons, but only a little over
six hundred students had pic
tures made and this is not a
particularly good showing for a
student b^y of around eleven
hundred.
THE COLLEGIATE
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At
Atlantic Christian College
Wilson, N. C.
To provide the student body and
faculty of this institution with a
means of communication and a
free discussion of the interests of
the day.
F. Terrill Riley Jr.
and
H. Alton Lee Jr.
Co-Editors
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Printed; Wish Is Granted
Dear Joe Gets Taught
Dear Editors:
I wrote an editorial which was
published in the Novemiber 18
issue of the CoUegiate. In this
article I included two battles
to my displeasure, only one was
t>rinted. I believe that in order
for the readers to get a full un
derstanding of the editorial both
battles had to be presened.
I’m sure that you had a good
reason for not printing the full
editorial, but I feel that it is es
sential and I hope that this let
ter wiU receive your fullest at
tention. The following is the bias
or prejudice battle that was
omitted.
“Then there is the bias or
prejudice battle. I have lived in
the south all my life and I know
what the Negro of the south is
like. I know that they are not
up to par with the whites. I al
so know that they are not up to
the standard of the Negro of the
north because I have traveled in
more than twenty states in which
more than a third have consist
ed of the north. This may be be
cause the whites have not al
lowed them their rights. This can
be argued both ways. However,
their moral standards are low
and the whites had no part in
them. With-in my own rural com
munity there are five illegitimate
children. Also there are Ne
groes that never pay their tax
es, serve in the armed forces,
or make a contribution to socie
ty.
I do not feel that the ones
that actually voted against the
sit-in resolution want to deprive
the Negro race their rights. I be
lieve that the majority of the
white race feels that the Negro
will hinder the progress of the
white race. But personally I do
not believe this if the Negro is
given a chance to prove him
self. Many whites feel that in-
ner-marriage wiU take place. It
might, but giving the Negro their
rights wiU not make any differ
ence. It takes two to get mlarri-
ed (this is a proven point) and-
the white male or female has
to agree with the Negro in order
for a marriage to take place.
This is not an inner-racial prob
lem. ’This is a moral problem.”
Grant Mangum
(EDITOR’S NOTE: All of Man
gum’s letter was not printed last
issue simply because of space
limitations. It was not the intent
in cutting the letter to stray from
its meaning. All copy on the Edi
torial page last edition was cut
in order to get it in.)
Want To Lose Weight? Witty Irene
Tells How.... To Find The Article
By IRENE B. HARRELL
Assistant Librarian
It runs in my mind that I had
threatened something or other
about teUing you a few things
about using magazines this
week. What do you want to
know? Still too stuffed from that
Thanksgiving bird to want to
know anything except a good
quiet place to go to sleep it off,
huh You won’t dispose of many
calories that way, kid. We’ve
all tried it and found that while
hibernating bears get thin we
sleeip and stay fat.
Say! There ought to be some
good information in recent mag
azines about how to shrink back
to pleasing plumpness from this
clumsy corpulence. Let’s try to
find it.
On that slanting top table in
the big reading room there are
a number of fat green volumes
labeUed READERS’ GUIDE TO
PERIODICAL LITERATURE
which translated means simply
“mjagazine index” and why they
didn’t name it that to start with
I’U never know. I’m for simplic
ity myself.
This RG to PL is arranged
alphabetically by author, subject
and title of magazine articles
and has “see” and “see also”
references like those we found
in the card catalog. Under RE
DUCING I find; REDUCING,
see Corpulence; REDUCIN(i
diet, see Diet; REDUCING
PREPARATIONS, see Weight
reducing preparations. Let’s try
PREPAR-
T ^ The article
entitled
They take your money, you
keep your weight”. Like heck
UnL^DIET elsewhere.
particular READERS' GUmE I
am usmg. That’s too many to
choose amons —. *
CORPULENCE (It’s a
word, I just used it myself ) Here
Z " comLrtinTt^
tie. Maybe some fatties can’+
it at obesity.” Let’s leave
wpot — next
figure out how to
aUIu the article. It just mi^hf 'Ko
smart to wait until after Christ
Dear Joe,
That “penalty pig” at the cir
culation desk hasn’t attracted
much loot lately. Guess the ‘‘he
don’t” boys have sort of died
out around here, I haven’t heard
any “he run” to speak of ei
ther, Good work! How’d you
like to begin on Harry’s double
negative this week? He used to
say “John don’t have no book”.
Now, thanks to you, he says
“John doesn’t have no book”
wihi'ch is stm not so hot grani-
ra(arwise.
The rule is: Two negatives
make a positive, “Doesn’t have
no” would mean “does have
some”. Harry can omit which-
eyer negative he chooses and say
either “John has no book” or
“John doesn’t have any book“--
accentuating the positive instead
of duplicating the negative, you
might say. What’s that? You
say John has already been pin^
slipped out of AC because of the
no book business? That’s
a shame. If Harry had found out
in time how to teU the prof that
John was bookless we might’ve
saved him. On, second thought
any one so far gone that he had
to get help from Harry should
have stayed home to begin with.