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THE COLLEGIATE
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Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, N. C.
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Thursday, October 27, 1966
Liberal Arts
Atlantic Christian College faces a predicament
which is familiar to many so called liberal arts
colleges during our period in history. ACC is
faced with the question of whether to remain
essentially a liberal arts college or whether to
change to the demands of the time and orient
its curriculum so as to be producing specialized
students, educated to do a specific job.
This question is very controversial in all parts
of our country, especially since the higher paying
jobs are demanding that one have considerable
knoweldge and skill in specific areas. The liberal
arts college is caught in the situation of having
to decide whether they should be producing
men and women who are prepared to do a
special task in life, or producing men and women
who have a knoweldge of themselves and the
world and who have been taught to see them
selves in relation to all things.
We feel that the latter is more important. We
feel that our curriculum needs to remain direct
ed towards producing what Ralph Waldo Emer
son called the "Thinking Man". When man
reaches the point where he no longer sees life
as having meaning to more than what is with
in his own immediate environment and concern,
and becomes a doctor, a teacher, a farmer, or a
lawyer instead of a man then education is pro
ducing no more than robots trained to perform
certain programmed tasks. If colleges continue
to go in the direction which many are headed
and continue to put so great an emphasis upon
specialized education then this is what they will
be doing.
However, we do not completely eleminate the
importance of specialized schools. There is a
great need for people who have specific skills
and knoweldge, but we feel that the under
graduate study needs to be left essentially liberal
in order that the student may gain an under
standing of his own life and what its relation
ship is to the rest of the world. The under
graduate period needs to be a period in which
men may grow as men, seeing the unity of
things and the great diversity that also exists
within this unity. It needs to be a period when
one can have an opportunity to view life from
all angles. Then if one wishes to specialize in
some field he can do so in graduate school or
some other specialty school.
The point is we do not feel it is the purpose
of education to prepare a person so that he can
make a certain salary. Education has a greater
task of helping man to understand, both himself
arid his relationship to all aspects of life. If he
is educated in this manner there will be no need
for worrying about his survival, because such a
man Will have a much better chance of survival
than the one who is taught to do only one or
two tasks and is lost when he is out of his
normal everyday environment.
Self-Defeat
Because of certain embarrassing situations
which have occurred recently, because of the
obviously lack of efficiency, and the great
amount of backtracking that has had to be done
by the Executive Board we hope that they will
make a special effort to come to the meetings
better prepared to meet the business of the
night, and that there will develop better com
munications between the Board members and
the cabinet than now exists. We feel from what
has been going on during the Board meetings
these are necessary steps that need to be taken.
We feel the Board is essentially serious about
their job and are attempting to do a good job,
but they are letting lack of preparation and
communications defeat them.
Readers^
Forum
To The Editor:
Yes, stupidity has struck
again! It was very evident in
the letter to the editor in last
week’s Collegiate from the
Chapel Bell Ringers Society for
Reform, Etc.
We would like to inform the
Bell Ringer’s Society of the pur
pose of the bells in the new
gymnasium.
First of aU we do have lec
ture classes in the Health and
Physical Education Department,
although some people are un
aware of this.
Secondly, we want to explain
the bell system used in the gym
and its purpose. Two minutes
before dass begins there is a
bell warning the students that
it is time to be in the class
room. Another bell rings on
the hour, signaling the 'begin
ning of class. Then at twelve
minutes ’til the hour another
bell rings watrning the professor
that it is two minutes before
the end of the class. This gives
the professor ample time to
close his lecture and make the
assignments. Then at ten ’til
the bell for class dismissal rings.
Even though most of the
clocks and bells on campus are
“off”, the bell system and
(docks in the new gymnasium are
precise.
We agree that most of the
bells on campus could use the
attention of an electrician, but
not the gym.
Surely Dr. Kemp understood
that we have bells just like any
other college and you can’t
eiivjitdhf (them t>n and off when
you would like. This would be
more trouble than listening to
four little bells md surely most
people have enough patience for
this, or do they?
Those For Whom the Bells
Ring
Calla Boney
Betty Carol Reaves
To The Editor:
I have never been quite so
discouraged in all my life as
I was today during Golden Knot
Honor Society tapping when the
student body supposedly sang
the Alma Mater. How many of
our student body were singing?
Could there possibly have been
tw^ty; ;per /cent ysinging it or
pretending to sing it? I thought
Atlantic Christian had school
spirit but how could we, we don’t
even know our Alma Mater?
The freshmen cannot take all
the blame for it, for how are
we to learn it if the upper;
classmen are not singing. I may
be just a lowly freshman but I
have enough respect for my col
lege to know her Alma Mater.
How about you? One can take
just a few minutes of time to
learn two verses to the school’s
most important song — after all
it is our school and our song.
Mary Katherine Manning
Mr. Editor . . .
God And The Beatles
By MEREDITH EIKER
The Collegiate Press Service
The period of public mourn
ing over the death of God seems
to have passed; a big thing in
religious symbols is now a Yel
low Submarine, the Holy Trinity
has become a quartet, and the
Alleluia Chorus requires an elec
tric guitar.
Needless to say this is the
Year of Our Lord—^1966, B. C.
—B. C. being, of course, Beatle
Century. The Western world is
hearing the first cries of wor
ship this week: “John not
Jesus.” And as is true of most
deities, the popularity of the
current idols is suddenly dubious.
Obviously when John Lennon
—the Besftle sitting highest on
Mount Olympus ~ announced
some weeks ago that “the Beatles
are more popular than Jesus,”
he undoubtedly thought that he
was merely stating fact. It
seems, however, that at that
point he had initiated a cult.
Long worshipped but never of
ficially sanctified, the Beatles
began somewhat unobstrusively
in a place called the Cavern in
Liverpool, England. The whole
set-up was not much unlike the
manger scene where Christ made
his first appearance 2,000 years
before. I People; icame and kind
of stared—Iwth at the infant
Christ and later at the singers.
Other similarities cannot be
easily overlooked either. Both
Christ and the Beatles were
fated for destinies with the stars,
both performed miracles (the
Beatles being able to turn docile,
apathetic, teenage girls into
screaming beasts), both experi
enced sunging popularity andi
large ,followings only to {ind
themselves eventually called
blasphemers.
Both Christ and the Beatles
knew they were doomed . , ,
rock and roU and religion are
fickle. The Beatles have bees
waiting for “their downfall” fa
several months now. Both have
witnessed angry mobs. It may
not be long before fanatics are
throwing rocks at the Beatles
instead of kisses.
Significantly, the Beatles even
have a gospel of their om
Twentieth century communicatioii
has enabled the singers to reach
thousands without the aid ol
loaves and fishes. Their words
are immortality inscribed on
discs. . . Lyrics such as those
of Nowhere Man and Eleanor
Rigby are as didactical aJi!
thought-provoking as the sermons
of Christ.
And why shouldn’t the Beatles
become the successors to Christ!
They’re alive, enthusiastic, cur
rent, and palatable. Besides it’s
just as easy to say “John, Paul,
George and Ringo” as it is to
say “Father, Son and Holy
Ghost.”
Dear Editor:
First, I would like to state that
I am not a Greek, therefore, I
am not defending myself.
Week before last your editorial
stated that, “If the Greeks want
to improve faculty and admini
stration relations then they will
begin to show a concern for the
college, and not just the fra
ternities and sororities.”
I would like to know how you
arrive at such a conclusion after
so many Greeks gave their time
and energies last year in a tele
phoning campaign, to raise
money for our school.
This is only one of the in
stances which I know of where
the Greeks have participated in
such functions as this.
Some persons may feel that
the Greeks on our campus could
play a .more active part. This
may be true, but in the future
let us also give credit where
credit is due,
Jim Curtis
By Dwight Wagner
In an indirect way the war
in South Vietnam came to At
lantic Christian last week in a
more realistic fashion than we
have seen to date. The war took
from our midst our visiting
student from South Vietnam,
Odette Nguyen, in the sense that
her country has asked for her
service in the teaching of Ameri
can military men the language
of her country.
While there is a personal loss
to Miss Nguyen, in that her edu
cation was interrupted, there has
also been an educational loss to
the student body. We have for
the time being lost the chance
to find out directly how the peo
ple in South Vietnam feel about
American assistance in their
war, the spirit of the people
alter twenty years of war, and
many other things concerning
the struggle in that country
A situation of this type does
place special attention on the
need of college students to have
a firm understanding of world
happenings. The -United States
has mvolved itself to a strong
^gree in a particular area to
the point where American lives
are being lost at around 100 a
week. Despite our degree of
involvement, the level of solid
understanding comprehension in
the American public and college
campuses leaves much to b«
desired.
There is an encouraging note
which should be emphasized-
The desire to obtain information
and to digest it seems to be an
important note with the ACC
student body. In this light an
effort should be made to acti
vate such groups as the Inter
national Relations Club, and to
bring in special speakers and
films. This is an area
activity whiich automaticalj
falls in the realm of the Soc®
Studies Department and ®
faculty throughout the college
needs to emphasize contempt
rary happenings in their vano®
courses.
The Student Government c®
also do much work in this are _
The appearance of Dr, Aro
Larson from Duke University
a good beginning in this dir
tion. Other speakers
be obtained and special b
are often available and sno
be presented to the student bW'