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JIM ABBOTT
Editor
Jerry Broyal Managing Kditor
Marbara l.aCourse Business .Manager
Harvey Davis Sports Editor
I’holographic Staff; Jimmy l.owery, Fran .Mercer and
Sandra Huggins
Staff writers: Bob Johnson. Robbie Steen, Mike Hughes, Joe
Collier, Kobert Dawson. Kosalind Matthews and Jim
lleaser. Bob Cox. Kenn Cady
f'ublished weekly by students attending .Atlantic Christian
College, Wilson, .\.C. 27X93. The views expressed herein are
not necessarily those of the faculty or administration of .ACC.
Reader's Perspective
Deferred Rush?
The demise of the Greek fraternity system here at
ACC is imminent unless the Greeks themselves take
steps to strengthen their organizations’ foundations.
As a non-fraternity man, I would like to suggest that
the IFC consider adopting a deferred rush system. I
think such a system would serve to allow first semester
freshmen the opportunity to acclimate themselves to
their new environment and to concentrate on proving
themselves academically. During the past three years I
have known countless first semester freshmen who met
with academic doom simply because the temptation
from fraternities and other influences to join “the good
life” was too great. I would urge current freshmen to
wait at least until their second semester before pledging
— fraternities will still be here and they will still want
you. (The current IFC President waited until his
sophomore year to pledge.)
One liability in the deferred rush system though, is
the fact that if freshmen wait until their second semster
to pledge they may find that life here at ACC is quite
bearable without fraternity membership and forego any
Greek affialiation whatsoever.
Fraternities I think would do well to at least consider
the good and bad points of this issue and decide whether
or not this system would help their game plan or take
them out of the game altogether.
JCA
Appreciation
I think a word of appreciation is due this week to Dr.
Sarah Bain Ward and all of the fine people who assisted
her in making this year’s Faculty-Staff reception the
great success that it was.
The tradition of the Faculty-Staff reception has been
firmly entrenched here at ACC and though it is of
tentimes criticized, it remains I feel, as one of the
unique events that makes ACC the fine school that it is.
I hope there will be many more Faculty-Staff
receptions in the future; it’s a nice “happening.”
JCA
Editorial License
A basic tenet of journalism is that it is the editor’s
undebatable privilege to write editorials about any
subject he feels is pertinent and in the course of the year
I intend to express my views on many subjects. I would
hope for and indeed expect some criticism and
disagreement and I assure our readers that any letters
to the editor, if they are not libelous will be printed.
In closing, let me assure everyone that I will never
allow my opinions to discolor the news we print or to
present any biased articles anywhere in the newspaper
other than on the editorial pages.
JCA
Petition Drafted
As you have read in the past issues of the Collegiate
the Board of Trustees discontinued the “Visitation Bill”
The Executive Board of the S, G. A, has decided to draw
up a petition to present to the Trustees on October 27,
1971. This petition will be for those persons who would
have the Trustees reconsider their decision regarding
the bill. ^
The reason for not passing the bill the first time was
“lack of participation”. Let’s show them who the hell
participates. Come and sign this petition on October 6
and 7 and vote for Student Rights.
Bob Baucom
SGA President
Dear Editor,
It has come to my attention by
way of the college newspaper
that your views are not only very
shallow in perspective but also
quite contrary to your past
performance. It seems to me
that you have overstepped your
bounds as the elected editor of a
supposedly free press paper.
Even if you make claims that
you were only writing an
editorial for the students to read
you have made an unwarranted
and very unnecessary attack
upon the Greek system at
Atlantic Christian College. If I
remember correctly you
yourself were once a member of
a Greek organization at the
school. Now, you have taken it
upon yourself to cry “wolf” to all
the potential Greeks. This act in
itself shows me that you are
either quite incapable of making
a decision of the caliber,
(whether or not to join a
fraternity) or you have lowered
yourself greatly by using the
high ideals of such an
organization lo attain your own
selfish goals. Having viewed
your past performance at ACC
and having known you per
sonally, I rather suspect that the
latter case is truer. You have
contradicted yourself and have
betrayed your beliefs.
I would like to suggest that you
owe the Greeks of this campus
an apology for your quite
narrow-minded, maybe even
foolishly unbased comments. I
have no idea of the Greek life
that you were a part of in your
affiliation at ACC, but I rather
suspect that the consensus on
campus is nothing but relief and
joy that you no longer share the
Greek letters common to this
campus.
I should extend to you at this
time sympathy because of the
feelings that you have aroused
on the campus. It seems quite
unbelievable that one who once
belonged and whose wife now
belongs to Greek organizations
should be the source of such
undesirable comments.
I also would like to remind you
to loook back upon the activities
of the year and try to imagine
what they would be like without
the Greeks. Also I would invite
you to take a look around at the
President’s
Report
As a full-time student of
Atlantic Christian College, you
are a member of the Student
Government Association. You
put money into this association.
This is an investment made by
you for your gain.
People are becoming more
money conscious than ever
before, and when they invest in
something they want to make
some decision as to how their
money is spent. This has not
been true for all of the paying
members of SGA in years past.
There are various means of
coicing your opinions as to how
your money is spent. One very
simple way is by voting.
There is a statement on
student rights and respon
sibilities which is to be voted on.
Freshmen class officers are to
be elected. A petition asking the
Board of Trustees to reconsider
their decision on visitation is to
be signed by the students in
terested. These three items will
be acted on by students who are
interested in their investment on
October 6 and 7. I strongly urge
all of you to become familiar
with the issues and vote. This is
Your Government; voice your
opinions and “participate” in all
of its events.
Bob Baucom
S.G.A. President
next Student Government
Association meeting and count
the number of Greeks that have
positions of importance on that
board.
As far as your comment on the
decline in'the membership of the
Greek organizations on campus,
I should suggest that you delay
your unfair count until the “rush
period” is over. I also challenge
you to be patient with the new
and quite promising “open
rush” system that will be used
for the first time this year. It is
the hopes of the In-fraternity
Council that by next year this
time over half of the total male
population here will be
GREEKS. In closing I can only
say that I wish each one on
campus could know you, for I am
sure that you would be a most
valuable rushing factor for the
Greeks here at Atlantic
Christian College,
I am respectfully yours,
Ed Harris, President
Inter-Fraternity Council
Dear Editor:
In the last issue of THE
COLLEGIATE appeared an
article entitled TO RUSH OR
NOT TO RUSH. I know this
article was most distasteful to
the fraternities and sororities. It
was even distasteful to me—a
non-fraternity member.
Sorry to say JCA, but
evidentally you don’t know what
a fraternity stands for or means.
In Webster’s New Collegiate
Dictionary a fraternity is
defined as a state of being
brothers associated for their
common interest, business, or
pleasure, or a religious or ec
clesiastical brotherhood.
JCA are you telling me that
the American Institute of CPA’s,
the Rotaract Club, the Science
Club and all other organizations
at Atlantic Christian College
including the Alumni are
“nothing but a dead end street”?
If you will open your eyes, you
will see that our country is made
up of fraternities, sororities,
organizations, institutions which
you have and belong to now.
You, the other students at
Atlantic Christian College, and I
have a common interest — a
degree,
I hope this article has
enlightened your education. If
not maybe your better half will
with a rolling pin.
Sincerely,
Jim Lowery
ACC Photographer
‘Soul On Ice’
A R
eview
By BOB JOHNSON
One cannot but feel the
tremendous power of this man in
motion, Eldridge Cleaver. The
overpowering verbage of
Cleaver sucks the reader into the
soul of the author. This clear
unashamed sweeping prose begs
no apology of its reader, just
audience. Cleaver mirrors the
temperament of Black America
on the move clamoring for the
emancipation and manhood that
Reconstruction exasperatingly
and futally promised.
One must feel the frustration,
anxiety, and furmor of the
author. The reader sweats and
breathes with Cleaver as his
whip resounds the torment of a
people in desperation. This
desperation for Cleaver must be
manifest in a new attitude for
Black America. This
revolutionist is weary of Uncle
Tom “Negroes” playing off his
black brothers for white con
trollers; Cleaver is junking his
‘Stepin fetchit” heritage for a
bold assertion of his black
manhood.
Eldridge Cleaver has arrived
and the white had better realize
that the old, pat safe ideas of the
destiny of “white supremacy" ic
shortly, is today, is this momem
being punctured and destroy^
as some great balloon mieht
That balloon is dispensing it,
last great gasp of air as the
Black American is no longer
afraid of bucking the “white
establishment” because free
men do not fear death. Look out
Oregon, Idaho, Texas, North
Dakota, Ohio, Alabama, and
Florida “here come de judgp-i
Meaning In
Struggle
By MALCOLM BOYD
On a midwestern campus
recently a white male student
told me: “I have no sense at all
of who I really am. What is my
identity? Blacks are together
Now women are defining their
reality. But I feel lost.”
Nina Simone sang “To Be
Young, Gifted, and Black” to
black students in Atlanta. The
moment burst with exuberance,
creative energy and hope, i
wonder what can be sung, said
or exemplified to many other
students who are momentarily
trapped in frustration or even
(iespair. “We Are Ourselves,
Gifted, and Human” might be a
start.
I share fully in the personal
anxiety that inevitably ac
companies this moment in
history with its political action
ad reaction, existential
dilemmas and radical spiritual
questioning. These are simply a
few guidelines to my present
philosophy of life.
I want to be an organic part of
social responsibility and com
munity building. Yet I also want
to nurture my individuality —
even at the risk of being con
sidered eccentric.
I want to weigh myself in the
scales of liberation movements
— Black, Native American,
Women, Gay, Chicano and
others — and hopefully come up
with human identity. Yet I do not
want to live in a melting pot that
denies deep and honest dif
ferences between people.
I want to be sufficiently sober
and serious about the over
whelming questions of this day,
this age: poverty, emptiness,
ecology, identity, racism,
loneliness in a mass, war. Yet 1
do not want to lose my sense of
humor, capacity for sheer
abandon and fun, and awareness
of the absurd as a quality of life.
I want to nurture protest and
lend fire to dissent. Without
them a democracy perishes. Yet
I want to avoid slipping into
paranoia, destruction for its own
sake, and the morbid malaise of
hopelessness.
I want to be outspoken against
the maladies and sins of my
society, nation and institutions,
yet do not want to become
merely a shrill crier of doom
who offers no alternatives,
decent hope for change, or
postivie approaches to hard and
complex tasks.
It is therefore obvious that
choose to live in creative ten
sion. I do not want to shut other
people out of my life, avoid
shattering human experiences
and relationships, or rejec e
growth processes of becoming
fully human. The alternative is,
I believe, dehumanization.
Success and failure sre
meaningless terms to me. T e
meaning of life I find in > ®
struggle.
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