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ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 22, 1963
NUMBER NINE
CmS — Shown above, left to right, are Miss Eloise Reel, Sammy Orlando Jones, and Miss Judy Lee,
buying gifts for needy children. The Women’s Dorm Association is sponsoring the drive to collect gifts
for the underprivileged.
Filth In Bohunk Discussed
At Executive Board Meet
Gag Law^ Central Topic
Of NSA Regional Meet
96 student delegates met here to
The Executive Board of the Co
operative Association held its reg
ular meeting Monday night in room
212 of the Classroom building. Many
important campus issues w^ere dis
cussed ranging from NSA to WAGR.
June Abbott, representing the Bo
hunk Committee, gave a report to
the board pertaining to the filth in
Brian Sullivan
To Give Concert
On the evening of Dec. 2, 1963,
Brian Sullivan, noted operatic tenor,
will give a concert at the Fike
High School auditorium. Mr. Sulli
van has sung with the Metropolitan
Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago,
the San Francisco Opera and the
New Orleans Opera. He occupies
a unique position in American mu
sic as the only American-born
“hsldentenor” or heroie tincr on
the musical scene today.
In the spring of 1959, Mr. Sulli
van made his debut with the Vienna
Staatstper as Erik in “The Flying
Dutchman” to critical acclaim from
the Vienna press. In this country
he was heard in “The Girl From
The Golden West” in a role he
later repeated on the Bell Tele
phone’s TV production.
Mr. Sullivan has sung Dimitri
in “Boris Godunov” with all the
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BRIAN SULLIVAN
great Borises since Ezio Pinza.
Born in Los Angeles, Sullivan
was a high school athlete and did
hot begin to think of serious voice
study until his last years of high
school. A student production of “The
Pirates of Penzance” convinced him
that he wanetd singing as a career.
21, he made his professional
debut as Count Almaviva in an En-
Msh production of “The Barber of
Seville.”
the Bohunk. Miss Abbott stated
that much discussion had taken
place among various campus groups
in trying to find a solution to
the pressing problem. Among the
solutions offered were keeping a
full-time maid in the Bohunk, start
ing a clean-up campaign, putting
more ash trays around, and the
last solution — to be used if the
rest fail — to take the TV, record
player, and bridge tables out and
lock them up.
Jerry Ashworth, vice president
of the Co-op, reported to the board
information he had received in re
gard to WACR. Mr. Ashworth com
mented that if the radio station
were to resume operations with
the present set - up, it would be
operating illegally according to the
Federal Communication Commission
regulation pertaining to college sta
tions. President Belanger asked Mr.
Ashworth to investigate the matter
further and to report next week.
Gina Allen and Linda Griffin re
pored to the board results of the
National Student Association meet
ing in Raleigh that was attended by
several Atlantic Christian students.
Robert Royall, NSA co-ordinator,
commented that a great deal of
important student - related issues
had been voted upon by the NSA,
the main one being the “Gag Law.”
Mr. Royall commended the ACC
See EXEC BOARD Page 4
Omega Chi will hold their an
nual dance Friday night, Nov. 22
from 8-12 p.m. in the lobby of
the Classroom building with the
“Spectaculars” from Goldsboro fur
nishing the music for the evening.
Dress for the event will be casual.
Tickets will be sold at the door
for the price of one dollar. Chap
erones for the event will be Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Johnston and Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Mercer.
The evening will be highlighted
by the crowning of “Miss Pine
Knot” of 1963-64. Master of cere
monies will be Maurice Belanger,
president of the Co-operative As
sociation.
A travel theme will be used to
decorate the building and the pre
sentation of the candidates will be
a “take-off” of the Miss America
pageant. Voting for these girls took
place during the two assemblies
when the candidates were shown.
During their presentation at the
dance, the contestants will be
Christmas Gift
Project Plamietl
The Women’s Dormitory Associa
tion is sponsoring a campus - wide
project of buying Christmas gifts
for underprivileged children in Wil
son. Each person on campus will
be given the opportunity to sign up
for a boy or girl between the ages
of 5 and 11. A booth will be set
up in the classroom building Mon
day and Tuesday, Dec. 2 and 3 for
this purpose. It is requested that
each person spend between $1.00
and $1.25 on these gifts and take
them to Harper Hall by Monday,
December 9.
There are many activities which
will be coming up before the Christ
mas holidays. Among them is the
night set aside for caroling and the
big party given by the Men’s Dor
mitory in Hackney Hall after the
caroling. This will take place De
cember 19.
Bassey To Speak
At BSU Meeting
The Baptist Student Union of At
lantic Christian College wiU hold
their regular bi-monthly meeting on
Monday night Nov. 25, 1963 at
7:30 p.m. The Rev. William Bussey,
minister of the First Baptist Church
of Wilson and Pastor-Advisor for
the B.S.U., will be the speaker.
Plans for the annual Christmas
party will be discussed at the
meeting.
dressed in suits and will carry
traincases with the name of their
sponsoring organization.
The candidates who have been
elected by the various groups on
campus and who will compete for
the crown are the following: Laura
Rowe, Alpha Sigma Phi; Alice
Shepard, COLLEGIA'TE; Tempie
Brake, Delta Sigma; Peggy Medlin,
Delta Sigma Phi; Jo Ann Hardison,
freshman class; Janice Cousins, jun
ior class; Linda Griffin, Men’s Dor
mitory Association and Annette
Banks, Omega Chi.
Katherine Webb, Phi Sigma Tau;
Carolyn Cameron, PINE KNOT;
Brenda Pittman, senior class, Sally
Cox, Sigma Pi; Cookie Wickam, Sig
ma Pi Alpha; Mary Linda Be-
thune. Sigma Tau Chi; Barbara
Wooten, SNEA; Anne Amerson,
sophomore class and Vicki Joyner,
Women’s Dormitory Association.
The queen will be crowned by
the reigning “Miss Pine Knot.”
discuss “Community Issues and how
they Affect Higher Education” on
Nov. 15 and 16. The meeting was
the 15th Fall Assembly of the Caro-
linas-Virginia Region of the U. S.
National Student Association.
A resolution opposing the N. C.
speaker ban law was passed after
lengthy debate on the strongness of
the wording. Article I “deplores the
legislative irresponsibility which ac
companied the passage” of the
speaker ban.
In a keynote address, Joel Shark
ey, a national officer of USNSA,
told the delegates that many out
side groups have an undue influ
ence on the policies of public and
private education. He criticized or
ganizations that “attempt to push
a political philosophy into the cur
ricular and extra-curricular activi-
AC Grad Elected
Head Of APME
Atlantic Christian College alum
nus, Sam Ragan, was elected presi
dent of the Associated Press Manag
ing Editors Association at the Mi
ami Beach convention Friday, Nov.
15, 1963. Mr. Ragan was graduated
from ACC in 1936 with a major in
English. He received a special cita
tion for service to journalism from
the college five years ago.
Mr. Ragan, executive news edi
tor of the News and Observer and
Raleigh Times, has been an im
placable foe of government secre
cy. A man who believes deeply in
the cause of freedom of informa
tion, he once said, “In this day
when we see secrecy in government
becoming more pronounced, it is the
newspaper’s responsibility to sound
the tocsin, to give the alarm, in
deed to raise hell about this abridge
ment of the prople’s right to know.”
Mr. Ragan has assigned to newspa
pers the role of champion of the un
derdog or in other words, “To
talk loudly for the lowly,” as he
puts it.
Mr. Ragan started his career on
the News and Observer staff as
State editor in 1941. During the Sec
ond World War he served with the
Army Intelligence Corps after which
he returned to Raleigh and became
managing editor in 1948.
His widely - read literary column,
“Southern Accent,” which appears
in the Sunday edition of The News
and Observer, has provided an easy
forum for talented young poets and
writers.
Mr. Ragan has been a special
lecturer on contemporary issues at
North Carolina State during the
past five years. He has also con
ducted a news analysis program on
the University of North Carolina’s
educational television station,
WUNC-TV.
In addition to the various sec
tions and departments of the APME
he has headed, he has held numer
ous top offices in Associated Press
organizations and other newspaper
troups in North Carolina.
Homecoming Feb.
The Homecoming Steering
Committee announced last
Tuesday that Homecoming
las been set for Feb. 1. High
lighting the weekend will be
a basketball game with West
ern Carolina, and Alumni Bus
iness Luncheon, six to eight
dass re - unions. Fraternity
and Sorority alumni dinners,
and a dance after the Bas-
jetball game.
More complete details of
ffomecoming will be found in
forthcoming issues of the Col-
egiate.
ties of a campus.
An international commission was
established for the Region which
will have projects in student travel
abroad, foreign student program
ming, and Latin American student
affairs.
Complaints about the high costs
of text books resulted in a resolu
tion establishing a book co-op com
mission which will seek to bring an
outlet of the USNSA Book Co-op to
this region.
Student physical and mental
health was the subject of a resolu
tion aimed at improving college in
firmary services. It called for the
availability of psychiatric advice for
students who seek it.
The delegates rejected a resolu
tion opposing “The Civil Rights
Bill of 1963.” The resolution, intro
duced by two UNC students, con
gratulated Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC)
for his efforts against the bill.
Thoms Covington, assistant dean
of student affairs at N. C. State,
which hosted the meeting, spoke to
the students in a workshop on “Out
side Pressures on Higher Educa
tion.” He pointed out that in most
cases, the ultimate responsibility
for student conduct was legally on
the college administraton.
He said, however, that he favored
giving students a big hand in deal
ing with affairs that were of con
cern to them.
The speaker ban was discussed by
a panel of five students. They
agreed that “the state has the
‘right’ to regulate the policies of its
educational institutions.” However,
disagreement followed on the “wis
dom” of passing certain regulations.
Armistead Maupin, UNC sopho
more, said that he did not want
to see the state “provide a free
forum for communist speakers.” A
Charlotte College junior, Malichi
Greene, disputed this, and said that
it was the responsibility of the col
lege to provide all ideologies an op
portunity to be presented.
In closing the assembly, Regional
Chairman Harry DeLung, praised
the students at N. C. State “for
their excellent job in hosting the
regional meeting.” He said the
meeting had provided the regional
officers with a wisde variety of
projects to work on during the com
ing year.
Etheridge Speaks
At Science Meet
The Science and Mathematics
Club of Atlantic Christian College
met Monday night in the lecture
room of the Moye Science Hall.
President Julius Wooten presided
over a short business meeting which
involved a discussion of future
nieetings and membership plans.
The speaker for the evening was
Dr. Richard Etheridge, a local op
tometrist, who spoke on the “Phy
sics and Psychology of Vision.” Dr.
’Etheridge discussed astigmatism,
nyopia, hyperopia, and correction
nrocedures. An informal discussion
■^eriod followed the presentation.
Plans were discussed for a De-
'’ember social. The president an
nounced that on Jan. 8 the speaker
will he Dr. G. R. Hammond and
he will discuss mouth to mouth
resuscitation.
I'^iss Merry Christmas
winner of the “Miss Merry
"■hHc'frnas” contest will be announc-
the Varsity-Alumni basketball
’nrrtn qt Saturday night, along with
■ four runners-up.
Coronation Ceremonies
Part of Dance Friday