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Staff: Charles Wolfe, Fred Barber, Diana Tunnel!, Martha
Hall, Susan Porreca, Anne Johnson, Brenda Cothern,
Cathy Pierce, and Clay Brown.
Thursday, March 10, 1966
A Cloud Of Smoke
Readers^
Forum
TO THE EDITOR:
In the March 3rd issue of “The
Collegiate,” I was very much
disturbed by the letter to the
editor on the subject of Harper
Hall women. I could not believe
that any one person could be as
narrow minded as the author of
that mishap undoubtedly is. Judg
ing by the remarks made. I’d
be willing to give 10 to 1 odds
that she is one of ACC’s young
Freshman girls. I believe that
she must have gone off half-
cocked and did not bother to
consider both sides.
The second side of this is one
This week the controversy over required ^ problem to the
I I I ..II II I I males attending ACC for years,
chapel was almost settled as Howard Chapel ^
nearly went up in a cloud of smoke. The cause that high and mighty attitude
of this near catastrophe was the delapidated light that the typical ACC co-ed is
board which caught fire during Friday night's ^^essed with. These girls wonder
I . , _ If. why they are not rescued from
production of Stage and Script. the depths of boredom which
That this occurred is really not surprising, they find themselves sinking into
This light board has been a danger for years and on weekends. Well, they have no
one to blame but themselves;
because any young man in his
right mind is not going to even
consider approaching a girl
whose nose is kept so high.
As to the comment made on
walking and talking. This could
be hazardous if a sudden thun
der shower were to come up, the
water just might pour into
that nose so high leaving the
man with an obviously drowned
date.
My advice to the Harper Hall
girls is to wise up and you will
more than likely find your Hack
ney Hall man.
Thom Horack
I
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has been the subject of controversy between
those who must use the chapel and the admini
stration. The trouble is that this controversy has
led to little action as can be seen by the occur-
ance Friday night. We don't know the reason for
this lack of action but we do fell that something
should be done about this danger before a real
catastrophe occurs and it becomes too late to
act. Money is one thing but lives are another and
if the electrical condition of the chapel continues
to be the same is it possible that our college com
munity may lose some of its members in a very
unorthodox and hard to explain way. The chapel
has enough problems without also being a dan
ger to those who enter its hallowed doors.
As of yet this paper has made no statement
as to its opinion about required chapel, but under
such conditions that now exist in the chapel's
electrical system it might be highly recommended
that students stay away if for no other reason
than to protect their lives.
Singing Rivers
As if moved by the music of rushing waters,
the Senate voted 71 to 1 for the "wild rivers"
bill. The debate almost gurgled with the "ram
paging torrents" of the Salmon, the white water
cataracts of the Rogue and the colorful swirls of
the Rio Grande. In a few hours of nostalic ap
preciation for untamed streams and unspoiled
woods, the Senate committed itself to a national
policy of perserving these values for which an
urban-oriented society continues to thirst.
We surmise that the almost unanimous vote
reflects the feeling in the country for the preser
vation of these singing rivers. Most of the Na
tion's streams have been befouled by silt, com
merce and sewage. No doubt the general sense
of guilt for this desecration contributed much to
the demand that at least a few "wild rivers"
should retain their original charm.
The Washington area will be especially de
lighted that the 140-mile Cacapon in West Virgin
ia and a 20-mile stretch of the Shenandoah were
added to the list of streams that must coninue
And It Asn’t Even Required!
The Scene From Here
Draft Tests
Are Optional
(CPS) - The Selective Ser
vice System has announced tests
that might qualify students for a
draft deferment will be given on
May 14, May 21, and June 3.
High school seniors who wiU
graduate in June and college
students who desire to take the
test must make an application
not later than April 23 to the
Science Research Associates of
Chicago, the firm under contract
with the government to prepare
and administer the tests. It was
awarded the contract over two
other bidders.
The Selective Service office
stresses the test is optional and
no student is required to take
it. However, beginning in the
fall, local draft boards will use
a combination of school grades
and scores on the test to deter
mine who will be deferred. Indi
cations are that a student with
an exceptionally high standing
in his college class would not
need to take the test in order
to be deferred. A student with
a lower rank in his class might
substantially improve his chanc
es for a deferment with a good
score on the test.
Although the criteria for de
ferments have not been announc
ed as yet, it is expected to be
similar to those used during the
Korean war when a score of 70
By CLAY BROWN
Since this column has a flexi
ble nature, I would like to remi
nisce about an unforgettable
character I had the pleasure of
knowing.
Nguyen Van Chi is his name.
Chi has been a member of Viet
Nam’s elite Airborne Rangers
since early in 1955. Because of
his military feats, Chi is a local
hero. He has been shot, bayo-
netted, and cut from head to toe.
His left hand is permanently fix
ed in a half closed position be
cause he had been shot in the
wrist by a sniper while he was
parachuting into a suspected
Viet Cong village. In addition to
bom-de-bah shack. (Bom-de-bah
is Vietnamese beer that is sup
posedly made from embalming
fluid). Since Chi’s shack is right
outside the Ranger compound at
Bien Hoa Air Base, it is there
that we met and became close
friends.
But Chi’s heroic military ac
tions are not the reason for
this story. It’s Chi’s talents as
a hustler of people that are.
He had a quality only a select
few possess — the quality to
make people see humor in all
situations. Chi stood out among
his people like all the people
the world over that posses this
quality do. Chi also had a way
about him that made me like
him the minute we met.
Chi spoke very little English,
What he did speak was a graphic
pidgin English. In other words
he painted the pictures with his
hands and a few well placed
G.I. slang terms. I can remem
ber sitting with iny buddies in
Chi’s shack watching the chil
dren chasing rats while he was
outside selling some Vietnamese
officer a bottle of American
whisky or a carton of cigarettes.
His business completed Chi
would run back inside and con
tinue his stories. Not that the
bom-de-bah or the shack appeal
ed to us, it was just that Chi’s
stories and the camaraderie we
felt as a group kept pulling us
back.
Chi did not run a black market
ring as some might have presup
posed, you see all the American
goodies he sold to his fellow
Vietnamese were given to him.
They were gifts from those
Americans that were fortunate
enough to drink and listen to the
stories in Chi’s Shack. This
way everyihing was open and
above reproach as far as the
authorities were concerned. We
could have sat in the clean, cool,
comfort of the Enlisted Men’s
Club, but I prefer to think that
the off-duty hours spent in that
dirty shack may have helped
two countries better understand
each other.
Perspective On Nkrumah
Much that has been said and
written in the East since the
overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
in Ghana suggests that many
in the West stiU have a lot to
learn about Africa, Africans and
above all about Pan-Africanism.
From Accra, Dr. Nkrumah had
played two roles until the end
of last month. One was that of
President of Ghana. The other
was that of a founder - member
and leading light of Pan-Afri
canism. He has lost the one.
The question now is whether he
will lose the other.
President Toure of Guinea —
whose thinking has points of
similarity with that of Dr. Nkru-
mah’s — has moved
to give
, , „ a base from which to try
to flow freely. We have no doubt that many other ^^'^-^rican role.
L i_iu * i-j-jtu *i-j* J.J sioGrod dGi6rablG for 3n undGr" Whst r6ni3ins to b6 sggii is
rivers should be included. The wild rivers study graduate student and an 80 was whether this move has actual
team which began its work three years ago generally accepted for a grad- or symbolic value.
surveyed 22 rivers and gave some attention to “TtelesUs'designed to test four
51 others that may merit presesvation in an un- areas - reading comprehension,
spoiled state. Fortunately, the bill provides for verbal relations, arithmetic rea-
a continuing study so that other spectacular and data interpretation.
u jjiixU-L-x £ • A spokesman for the Selective
streams may be added to this heritage or unique service office called the test
recreational areas. “similar to a general aptitude
symbolic value.
The Army coup, so manifestly
welcome to the crowds in the
streets of Accra, was the Ghan
aian conscience expressing itself
against abuse of power and a
President’s excessive vanity. The
removal of Dr. Nkrumah from
the presidency now gives the
... - - ^x^oiuciiv;^ liuw gives tne
It ic imnnceiihU tn nnHpr«;tand thp indiffpr- ^ people of Ghana an opportunity
It IS impossiDie to unaersTana tne inaiTTer ■(. ^jgvoted to verbal and linguis- — iu..- ^
ence that has been expressed by Chairman Ap- tic skills and about 50 per cent
pinall of the House Interior and Insular Affairs to quantitative reasoning.
Committee toward the bill The.e picturesque “ S Ty
rivers are no less worthy of preservation than advantage to any type of college
wilderness areas and that national parks which major. There were charges that Nkrumah’s difficulties. To many
Congress has brought under its special protec- war ^wL'^^weiS^reaction already
tion.-THE WASHINGTON POST
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to re-fashion their Constitution
so that a freer atmosphere will
prevail in their land.
But an element in all this is
bound to be the reaction of the
white Western world to Dr.
war was weighed in favor of
math and science students.
seems to have too great a com
ponent of malicious glee. And
they feel that this glee stems
less from the white Western
world’s satisfaction at the hu
miliation of a man so closely
identified with the whole history
of Pan-Africanism in modem
times.
Pan-Africanism has at least
three facets: geographical, poli
tical, and racial-ideological. The
geographical one is in many
ways constant. The political one
ebbs and flows — and at the
present time is at a low-water
mark, ironically because Kwame
Nkrumah has so often over
played his hand. Non-Africans
make the mistake of judging the
strength of Pan-Africanism sole
ly from the barometer of Afri
can political unity as between
governments. This leads them to
overlook the constant pull be
low the surface of racial-ideo-
logical facet.
Perhaps the West should re
flect on what might be the con
sequences now of adopting the
very worthy Army leaders to
Ghana as its darlings — and of
overcelebrating the difficulties of
Dr. Nkrumah. At the very least
it will seem in many African
eyes to justify the subtle al
legations from the Communist
world (and from some sensitive
non-Communist African govern
ments) that the coup in Ghana
was an Anglo - American plot-
We do not believe the allega
tion. General Ankrah in Accra
has refuted it.
(Reprinted from The Christian
Science Monitor)