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Sosffv Endurance
It has been said by many of our fellow students that
Homecoming, '65 lacked the energetic, fun-filled ot-
mosphere that generally pervades most such festivals.
Chiefly because, other than the Poul Anka concert,
and the basketball game there wos no great event in
which the students could participate and take pride in
their school. Most of these students cite the absence of
a parade as a grotesque reminder that homecoming wos
doomed to be o flop.
Homecoming, os its title implies, was designed to be
a time when alumni could again walk the grounds of
their alma mater. But it was also designed to give the
students a most welcome break in the doldrum of attend
ing classes, writing term papers and studying for tests.
It is our hope that next year a more successful home
coming will be observed.
Even if the weather had been clear, we doubt thot
the boothes erected in center compus would hove instilled
within many of us o great price in our college—it just
isn't the same os seeing your organization's float drift
ing down Nosh St. or headring the bands os they march
and ploy their proud music. Maybe next year homecoming
will be more than alumni discussions and painted signs
that drip their seemingly false addages of a "Big Wide
Wonderful World."
The ‘^Glib Tongue’^
Bookworm Crawling
By ROBBV KOELLI.NG
William Glenesk certainly
provided one of the most in
teresting chapel programs of the
year. His glib tongue slid
smoothly over the difficult
problem of new morality
perhaps because, from the worn
condition of the manuscript the
speech was on. this was not the
first time it had t>een given r. His
polished delivery, punctuated
with a sarcastic humor, made for
an impressive and enjoyable
talk. The first impression was
that he carried a real penetrating
insight into one of the major
problems of our time. But
gradually the feeling grew that
Reader’s Perspective
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Mr. Bussell;
I thoroughly enjoyed the
convocation address by Mr.
William Glenesk — so much that
I made a special effort to attend
the question and answer session
later in the day. But after this
double exposure I find myself
more than vaguely dissatisfied.
Mr. Glenesk expelled a lot of hot
air in his two speeches, but HE
DIDN'T SAY A THING:
One gets the impression that
Mr. Glenesk's speech was
designed primarily to garner
lecture invitations. If he knows
anything about the "new
morality," he certainly isn’t
telling — at least not at ACC.
During the entire convocation
period, he expounded on the old
morality and its history.
I was impressed by his answers
to the questions fired at him in
the open session later. Never
have they been fielded so cleanly
and evaded so completely. His
answers sounded good, but the
content was negligible — if it
applied to the expressed question
at all.
Finally, I was irked by Mr.
Glenesk's assumption that we
were all ignorant. I dare say that
most, if not all, of the students
attending have at least a nodding
acquaintance with Kafka, and
even one totally unfamiliar with
our campus could deduce that
Drs. Hartsock and Capps are
hardly perennial freshmen. I
trust that in the future con
vocation speakers will be
selected in view of their
achievements rather than their
press notices.
Lynn Johnson
his talk was mainlv a string of
quotes from well and not so well-
known people that he was
elaborating on. The talk seemed
to be strongly tinged with
Glenesk reinforcing the high
praise given him by David
Jarman's introduction. Name
dropping became very prevalent
with the use of such phrases as
■ When I was at Columbia.
. . Marshall McLeaun, my
teacher. . and "Norman
Mailer, my neighbor. . .'' After
the convocation there was a
rather vague feeling that
somehow the real issues had
hardly been touched, let alone
delved in to.
Further exposure to Mr.
Glenesk — after convocation,
during lunch and at the reception
— greatly reinforced this feeling.
His extreme self-confidence
bordered on arrogance. During
the reception his personal ex
periences were repeatedly
mentioned. One of his more
memorable quotes began with
"When I was on T.V. with Bishop
Pike. . His condescending
attitude was particularly grating
when in combination with the
sarcastic answers he gave to
many questions. In addition to
this he seemed to talk a great
deal without answering questions
posed to him. I have only one
final comment — Mr. Glenesk did
manage to provoke some thought
and discussion. This may be a
first for a convocation.
cy WIGGLtK ^
Hark; -All ye coeds rejoice^
Santa Claus has arrived at the
\CC bookstore. He didn t slide
down a chimney and he didn
dash in behind eight reindeer
.nine counting Rudolph). But
don't let his subtle appearance
discourage you. Gary Jones is
winmng the hearts of thousands
of small children ^ college coe^)
as he allows them to burden his
lap with their tales of need for the
Christmas holidays.
Garv is employed by the
bookstore as a stock clerk but
over the Thanksgiving holidays.
Vivacious Bookworm is sending
him to -Macy's Department Store
on Fifth .Avenue in New York to
learn the techniques of being an
economically seductive Santa
Claus. Therefore, it is indeed
possible that many of his clien
tele will find themselves doing
their Christmas shopping in the
bookstore.
For those of us tired oi the
humdrum of ordinary existence,
it is quite rewarding to learn that
Garv is more humanistic in that
he hopes to be able to provide a
more beneficial service to his lap-
sitters. Gary will be available at
all limes during his hours in the
bookstore to answer any
questions that might arise as to
what gift to buy for that special
someone.
In this field Gary has a record
equaled by none. In his first week
of service. Gary received 14
presents from secret admirers
who had previously visited his
lap. This leads one to believe that
Gary is providing some fringe
benefits that \'ivacious Book
worm and Wiggler are not aware
of. or else there is an impending
snowstorm of gigantic propor
tions moving into the bookstore.
Whatever the case Wiggler has
not yet built up enough courage
himself to crawl up onto those
Charles Atlas type knees and
start pleading for presents. One
thing for certain, the bookstore
has never before had so many
girls leave the premises with
such satisfied expressions
enlightening their departure.
Wiggler suggests that any coed
who might be from Conservative
Eastern .North Carolina should
not plan to visit the bookstore's
Santa without taking a friend
along for extra added security.
Then decide for yourself. The
picture accompanying this weeks
column is one of a coed who first
visited “Santa” with a friend and
who was later so eager to revisit
him that she didn't take time to
remove her wraps, or could it be
that these wraps were protecting
her from what might be the first
flurries of that snow storm.
WTiatever the case, her ex
pression seemed to indicate that even the
she would have been„„
0
most
Tell It To Santa???
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.All night study binges are common in college and before
the student will find himself involved in rather personal relatioi*®^'
with the coke and cookie machines that keep him energized
the night. On looking through my files I found this amazing ;anc
dent recorded b\ Lewis Hyde touched up to fit our A. CJlo
' aft
We sensed wmter in tha air late one night last monttirtli
collar high and all that, we rushed to the nearest dorm and hi;
in its shadow. There we happened to notice that through s
flaw in the chain of command, the night watchman had left
of the doors unlocked. .Although we aren't the tjiie who mundi
plastic lunches on stairways and such, tonight we decided a fc
peanuts would comfortably forestall the walk heme.
We descended to the basement and walked through the liE
hall, lined with tables and circled by the vendo-magie mai
-All was quiet but ths green mold creeping through 1000 coffest
and the univac 80 growling quietly in its glass cage; the veiBul
machines glowed and bhnked. We approached the Tom's maeafte
and scanned its contents. Denver delights and push button iElasl
We took a dollar and offered it to the change o-matic dollar igijj
sector which gurgled happily and gave us 95c m change,,
potato chip machine glowed a little brighter and the coke i
chuckled. We inserted our coin respectfully into the waiting«
l,'Fri(
regurgitator. and then it happened. .As we reached into the aw£
orifice the brute grabbed us. .All the machines began to sway
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feA,C
from side to side and move toward us. We yelled, and tlie^' T1
machine squirted us with a mixture of pepsi, powdered cream .scri
chicken soup. We kicked at the tightening circle of swayiDS'sea;
chines, glowing and blinking and humming to each other.
begin to chant.;
Give us a quarter, dime or nickle
you get ham. cold pumpernickle
For the profs and his assistants
Fine artsmsn with low resistence
Scholars high of all departments
Whose tastes can fit in our conpartments
No need to halt a high hung meeting
of push button machine need
of eating
Oh marzipan and butter brickie
quarter, dime and silver nickle
God of mass metallic steel
Give us this day our daily meal .
With that we knew this way no time for puss> o
The moment of truth was upon us. -All our lives we
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f^ipJomacv thnf'k' • decided
the coffpp’m fhe better part of discretion. We W*
warm and nVh whispered. "Friendship is like gocJ ®
seven nennioc strong." It put him off guard, and we j»'
groaned aTtu ^ Canadian nickle down his throat A'
the door vellina'-a " ^ leapt out of the ring and mai
.'ciuiijj ax.L. or die!"
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