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Deferred Rush Stirs Executive Board
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The
reconv'
February
the new
Executive Board
ened on Monday,
2 to begin business for
semester. The most
came on a motion
l,y Jim Abbott which would
resolve the Board into a com-
' luiiiee of the whole for purposes
I of less restricted discussion.
Abbott's motion stipulated
! iiiai at the next regular meeting
(he Board should becomf
committee of the whole
discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of a deferred rush
system for first semester fresh
men. Abbott insisted that his
Biolion would only elicit
discussion and that no legis-
' laiionwould be enacted. For the
a
to
purposes
of his motion and the
pending discussion Abbott
defined deferred rush as a
system whereby no freshman
could pledge during his first
semester. He expressed the hope
that the IFC and Pan Hellenic
representatives could bring
information which would shed
light on either or both sides of
the subject.
From that point SGA Presi
dent Joe Wilkins encountered
difficulty keeping the debate
germane to the motion on the
floor. The Board members pro
ceeded to debate with Abbott
continuing to present him with
the negative side of a deferred
rush policy. Abbott reiterated
that he only wanted information
gathered on which to base a two-
sided discussion. Wilkins felt
4CC Nursing Dept.
Will Open This Fall
Atlantic Christian College, be
ginning with fhe 1970-71
academic year, will offer a
curriculuni leading to the bache
lor of science degree in nursing,
according to Dr, Arthur D.
Wenger, president of the college.
He said a Department of Nur
sing would become the college’s
lii-elfih academic department.
The announcement was made
following approval by the Exe-
culive Committee of the ACC
Board of Trustees which acted
iPi Gamma
To Meet
Dr. David L. Smiley of Wake
Forest University will be guest
speaker of Pi Gamma Mu
National Honor Society on Feb.
9. Dr, Smiley will address a
meeting of History Seminar at
12:01) in the Ware Room of the
C.L. Hardy Library and give a
public lecture concerning
Romanticism and Realism in
I llieContemporary South” at 4:00
the Choral Room of the
Hackney Music Building. Dr.
Smiley is a graduate of Baylor
(iniversity and received his Ph.
^ from the University of
Wisconsin. During the academic
)'6ar of 1968-69 he was guest
lecturer at the University of
Strasbourg, France. He is
currently Professor of American
i^Klory at Wake Forest
diversity.
ICandidates
lAnnounced
The annual Most Popular
■reshman Girt Dance will be
'fid, Friday, February 6,
Pe&inning al 8-.00 p.m. in Hardy
lyumni Hall. Music will be
Provided by ihe “Huckleberry
an
is
Pi
and there will be
'ssion charge. The dance
'’y Sigm
I'ponsored
U'taiernil^.
\ Candtdates include; Jackie
friers sponsored by Ihe Fresh
Wn Class; Dianne Sharpe,
l«phomove class; Pam Mal-
lljws, Junior class; Brenda
W,DellaZela; Donna Adams,
I'hi Mjj. Harper, Sigma
Sigma; Fon Faulkner,
Sigma Phi; Margie
I horpe, sigma Phi Ipsllon;
I'enny A.nlone, Men’s Dormitory
I'Ouncll; and Connie
Harper Hall.
on a favorable recommendation
from the board’s Education and
Finance Committee and had
been previously approved in
principle by the college faculty
and full board.
The ACC Department of Nurs
ing was organized following a
two-year study by a special com
mittee comprised of educators
and officials of the nursing and
medical profession. Serving as
chairman of the committee was
Dr. J. P. Tyndall, chairman of
the ACC Department of Science.
Involved in the organization of
the department and its curri
culum, in addition to college
officials, were officials at Wilson
Memorial Hospital, Nash
General Hospital, Eastern North
Carolina Sanatorium, the Wilson
County Commissioners, Wilson
County Health Department,
Wilson County Medical Society,
Central Coastal Plain Health
Planning Counci, N. C. State
Board of Nursing, National
League for Nursing, and the
N.C. League for Nursing.
At the time of the announce
ment, officials at Wilson
Memorial Hospital advised they
would phase out their current
diploma nursing school program
over the next three years but will
accept students for their 1970
class.
The nursing program will be
open to both men and women.
Students working toward the
nursing degree will be enrolled
as regular students, reside on
campus and come under the
rules and regulations of the
college. While tuition and fees
will be the same as for regular
full-time students, college of
ficials indicate liberal scholar
ships, loan funds and grants-in-
aid will be available to nursing
students.
Nursing students will take
course work on campus and will
receive clinical experience at
Wilson Memorial Hospital, Nash
General Hospital, Eastern North
Carolina Sanatorium and the
Wilson County Health Depart
ment.
I'Snia
'Ipha
Bass,
Track Meeting
Atlantic Christian students
interested in competing for the
school’s intercollegiate track
program should attend a team
meeting Wednesday, February
11, at 4:00 in New Wilson Gym,
coach James Corbin has an
nounced.
tiiat it was a Greek matter and
should not be dealt with by the
SGA. He related on the basis of
four years of experience that the
Greeks would r\ot listen to any
opinion — pro or cojj.
IFC President David Finch
felt that the Greeks themselves
had investigated the matter
sufficiently and that further dis
cussion was pointless. SGA
Secretary Deborah Roberson
pointed out that several years
ago the Pan Hellenic Council had
tried deferred rush with “dis-
asterous” results. Freshment,
she said, had found the ability to
survive without pledging and
hence the number of pledges
nonedivided.
Freshman Class President
Steve Bassett said the matter of
pledging is a decision which
must be left to the freshman
himself. Student Co-ordinator
Harold Herring followed up by
saying, “Don’t think the fresh
man has the wool pulled over his
eyes.” Abbott muttered, almost
imperceptibly, “Oh, bull!’’ and
the Greek controlled Board
defeated the motion to provide
for informed discussion.
Less controversial debate was
instigated by a motion from Day
Student President Rick Stewart.
Stewart’s motion would initiate
a salary of $75 per semester for
the SGA’s four cabinet mem
bers, effective with the spring
semester, 1970. Stewart stated
that in his opinion being a
cabinet member involved much
time and work and that it
deserved compensation. He
drew as precedent the fact that
A touch of spring in the middle of February brings out the best in
this Freshman coed. Miss Fon Faulkner finds contentment
during one of Wilson’s few delightful days. The weather, being
true to form, ran the course of sun in the morning and snow in
the evening. Joe Overman, where are you???
First Program Held
Alluding to Dietrich Bonhoef-
ler’s oft-quoted phrase, “man
come of age,’’ Dr. Jack For-
stman, chairman of the Gradu
ate Department of Religion at
Vanderbilt University, began
Ihe first convocation program of
the 1970 spring semester.
Dr. Forstman centered his
lecture around the rise of
modern man, dividing this
development into three
prominent views. The first was
the Enlightenment view evolv
ing out of the eighteenth century
period which, in Dr. Forstman’s
words corresponds to man’s
period of “early puberty.” It"
was in this age, said Forstman
that man first proclaimed his
greatness while at the same time
taking careful note of his limita
tions. The Enlightenment was
characterized by such eminent
men as Immanuel Kant who
enraptured men with his
challenging statement, “Dare to
know.” Essayist Alexander
Pope, in his “Eassy on Man”
observed that, “The proper
study of mankind is man,” thus
promulgating the premise that
the human, man in general, is
the dominant interest of man.
The Enlightenment, stated
Forstman, also represented
man’s disenchantment with the
prevailing theory that
church was the
man." In essence, the
Enlightenment encouraged men
to “Have the courage to use their
own reason.”
Forstman’s second topic was
the Promethian view.
Promethius, explained Forst
man, was a character in Greek
mythology who stole fire from
the gods and gave it toman, thus
See PROGRAM Page 4
the
“tutelage for
Convocation
Is Planned
The Campus Awareness
Committee will sponsore Mr.
Charles F. Lambeth, Jr. as
convocation speaker on
Tuesday, February 10. Lambeth
is'from Thomasville, N.C. and
has served as president of the
North Carolina Civil Liberties
Union since it was formed in
1965.
Lambeth is a prominent at
torney and has been active in
working for the rights and
liberties of various minority
groups, especially students.
Most recently he has been
serving as legal counsel to
students at UNC-Chapel Hill who
do not feel they should be
compelled to pay for sub
scriptions to The Daily Tar Heel,
the official campus newspaper.
the editors and business
managers of the Collegiate and
the Fine Knot are salaried.
Herring and Pinch each noted
instances of other student
governments which compensate
their officers’ labors. There was
also feeling among Abbott, Her
ring, and Dean Zeb Whitehurst
that making such action im
mediately effective might be
neither wise nor ethical.
Sophomore Senator Jeanette
Norfolk fell that more students
should have the opportunity to
say whether they wanted to
salary elected students. With a
divergence of questioning atti
tudes the Board passed a motion
by Herring to table the matter
for later consideration.
A motion by Junior Senator
Joyce Copeland requested a
specific statement by the college
in writing concerning how long
students must wait for an in
structor who is late or fails to
meet a class. The motion passed
with a recommendation of 15
minutes for an instructor with a
Ph.D. degree and 10 minutes for
all others.
The Board also passed a mo
tion by Abbott requesting college
President Arthur D. Wenger to
contact the producer of the G. E.
College Bowl television program
requesting an opportunity to be
represented on the program.
Wilkins promised a full report
at a later date on Trustee action
concerning regulation of beer
and wine. He felt that further
discussion at that juncture
would jeopardize the bill’s
chances of passing.
Committee
Releases
Schedule
The convocation schedule for
the Spring Semester 1970 has
been released by the Con
vocation Coordinating Com
mittee. Programs scheduled
include Feb. 10, 11 a.m., Mr.
Charles F. Lambeth Jr.,
president of the N. C. Civil
Liberties Union, and Feb. 16-20,
the N. C. Annual Artists Exhibi
tion '69 at the ACC Art Gallery.
Mrch 3, 11 A.M., Dr. Rodney
Fulcher, Professor, Department
of Christianity and Culture at St.
Andrews, will lecture. March 12-
14, the play “We Bombed in New
Haven” will be presented in
Howard Chapel at 8:15 P.M.
April 1, at 8:15 P.M. a concert of
the music of India will be held in
Howard Chapel. April 7, the
Student Government Associ
ation will hold its annual convo
cation at 11 A.M. April 15, at 11
A.M. Mario Pei, a linguist from
Columbia University, w'ill speak.
April 15, an outdoor concert
will be held in the Fine Arts
Court at 8:15 P.M. featuring
Conjunto Brasiliero, April 21,
another concert will be held in
the Wilson Gym at 11 A.M. The
Men’s Chorus from the Univers
ity of Pittsburgh will perform.
The month of April will close
with Alvin Toffler, advisor of the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, on
the 28th.
April 30, May 1-2, the play
“Taming of the Shrew” will be
held in Howard Chapel at 8:15.
May 5, Dr. B. Frank HaH from
the University of North Carolina
at Wilmington will speak in
Wilson Gym at 11 A.M. May 12,
the Honors Convocation, the
final program, will be held at 11
A.M.