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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MARCH
24, 1972
NUMBER NINETEEN
‘Firebugs'’ Called
Absurd
By GREGG O’SHELL
Last weekend. Stage and
Script under the direction of
Paul Crouch presented The
Firebugs by Max Frisch.
Starring in the production were
Fred Corlett and Diane Bishop
Corlett.
One of the basic faults of
college theatre is that too often
the same actors end up with the
leads time after time. In this
respect Firebugs was a pleasant
change with several fresh faces.
When Stage and Script
presented Barefoot in the Park
two years ago, Diane Bishop
gave proof of her comic acting
ability. In Firebugs, Mrs.
Corlett's Babette was the most
enjoyable performance of the
evening. With comic roles there
is always a thin line between
acting and overacting. Diane
kept the balance.
Working with Diane in the play
was her husband, Fred Corlett.
His part as Gottlieb Bieder-
mann, Babette’s husband, was
amusing at times and boring at
others. For the most part this
was due to the character itself,
the lines were trite and created
little interest. It was unfortunate
in that obviously Mr. Corlett has
the talent, all he needs is a good
play.
Which brings us to the weakest
point of this play, the script it
self. It would seem that Stage
and Script would be able to pick
plays of a better caliber for their
productions. The program of
Firebugs reads “one of Max
Frisch’s most provocative and
brilliant plays.” That’s not
saying much for Frisch if this is
one of his best works. As an
example of German Theatre of
the Absurd, it earns the
classification.
It would be unfair to end this
review without mentioning
several others who performed.
Gwynn Doughty was the perfect
maid, she doesn’t like people.
Hal Hummel and Mike Raper
have proven in previous
productions their competency to
learn lines and worked well
together here. The chorus of
firemen were interesting,
wonder how they kept from
laughing at themselves.
Let it not be misunderstood
that this play was a waste of
creative talent. The actors no
doubt enjoyed their work.
Crucible Winners
Announced
WILSON, N.C. — Editors of
CRUCIBLE, literary and art
magazine at Atlantic Christian
College, have announced win
ners in its fourth literary con
test, The contest was made
possible by a grant from the
North Carolina Arts Council.
First prize in poetry went to
AnnDeagonof Greensboro. Mrs.
Deagon, a member of the faculty
at Guilford College, is a native of
Tyndall
Appointed
Dr. J. P. Tyndall, chairman of
the Atlantic Christian College
Department of Science, has been
elected chairman of the Joint
Committee on Nursing
Education sponsored by the
State Board of Education and
State Board of Higher
Education. Elected vice
chairman of the group was Dr.
Eloise Lewis, dean of the School
of Nursing at the University of
See TYNDALL Page 4
Alabama and a graduate of
Birmingham Southern College.
She holds the Master of Arts
degree in Greek and the Doctor
of Philosophy degree in Latin
from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Second prize in poetry was
given to Rebekah Jenkins
Roughton of Greensboro and
Southern Pines. Mrs. Roughton,
a graduate in art from Atlantic
Christian College, is at present
doing graduate work in art at the
University of North Carolina in
Greensboro. She has previously
won awards in both poetry and
art.
First prize for fiction went to
Shirley Cochrane of Chapel Hill.
A native of Chapel Hill, Mrs.
Cochrane was graduated. Phi
Beta Kappa, from Agnes Scott
College. She holds the Master of
Arts degree in Writing Seminars
Program from Johns Hopkins
University. She has worked in
the editorial department of the
University of North Carolina
Press, has been a research
See CRUCIBLE Page 4
Nick Calls
For Penal Reform
LINCOLNTON — Congress
man Nick Galifianakis ate lunch
9nd talked with prisoners,
guards and administrators
recently in the course of a two
and a half-hour fact-finding tour
of the Lincolnton felony prison
camp.
The visit was recommended
by Galifianakis’ penal reform
advisory committee. The
Congressman is surveying
legislative possibilities in the
crime field.
After the tour Galifianakis
said, “Probably the most
shocking thing I heard was one
administrator’s estimate that as
many as 75 per cent of the men in
this unit will commit crimes
after being released. This is
arate of failure society cannot
afford.”
Galifianakis said his conver
sations inside the prison focused
on increased educational op
portunities, vocational training
and inmate counselling.
He also discussed a pilot
community volunteer program
with its director, S. E. Biggers, a
retired schoo' teacher from
Lincolnton.
Acting head of the minimum
security penal unit, Lt. Cecil
Douglas, briefed Galifianakis at
the start of his tour.
For Dorm Studonts
High Court Sets
Residency Rules
By JIM ABBOTT
In what may be a precedent
setting case, the State Supreme
Court last week ruled that Inez
Hall, a Meredith College fresh
man from Tarboro, established
a domicile in Raleigh when she
came to live in a Meredith
dormitory. In light of this ruling
Miss Hall was granted the
privilege of registering to vote in
Raleigh rather than having to
vote by absentee ballot from
Tarboro.
Edgecombe Lnik
Attorney General Robert
Morgan making a rare ap
pearance in the Supreme Court,
argued in February that Miss
Hall is still a resident of
Edgecombe County because she
is supported by her parents,
most of her personal property is
there, and her church mem
bership remains in Tarboro.
Morgan contended that Miss
Hall, who has said she may go to
law school upon graduation from
Meredith, did not meet the test
of a permanent resident as a
college student
Justice Susie Sharp, in writing
the unanimous decision for the
high court made it clear that the
court's opinion applies only to
Miss Hall and is in no sense a
class action.
Justice Sharp said it is
necessary for students to meet
certain criteria on a case-by-
case basis before they can
register to vote in the counties
where their schools are located.
She laid down four rules of law
in determining the vital question
of a student's domicile:
—Whether a student's voting
residence is at the location of the
college or where he lived before
he entered college, is a question
of fact that depends upon the
circumstances in each in
dividual case.
— An adult student mav
acquire a domicile at the place
where his university or college is
situated, if he regards the place
as his home, or intends to stay
there indefinitely, and has no
intention of returning to his
former home
-The presumption is that a
student who leaves his parents'
home to enter college is not
domiciled in the college town to
which he goes, although this is
rebuttable
— Domicile is a fact which
may Ix' provedby direct and
circumstantial evidence, and a
student's physical presence in
the college town where he seeks
to vote demonstrably fulfills the
residence requirement of
domicile.
Currently several Atlantic
Christian College students are
planning to test the Supreme
Court's ruling with the Wilson
County Board of F^leclions
Bowles:
Governor Can
Act On Busing
Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles,
Democratic candidate for
governor, said at a news confer
ence in Raleigh Thursday that
busing of school children solely
to achieve racial balance is an
issue in which leadership is
needed, adding that he is facing
the issue with a view toward
finding a solution.
“I certainly do not agree with
my opponent who says the
governor can do nothing about
the problem of busing. I get the
impression many times that he
would prefer to do nothing about
many of our problems,” Bowles
told reporters.
Offering a positive proposal,
the former state senator from
Greensboro said, ‘‘The governor
can certainly lend the prestige
and the dignity of his office to the
efforts of North Carolina’s
delegation in Congress to the end
that laws be changed while at
the same time providing equal
opportunities and quality
education for all of our
children."
Bowles repeated his earlier
statement that the governor
“can help see to it — as I have
been saying for months — that
the bus ride is safe, and he can
help to see to it that the school is
going to teach him what he needs
to know and that order is kept on
the bus and in the school.
“Busing is not a hopeless
issue,” he said.
“Part of the solution is to
demand some new faces in
Raleigh, faces of people who are
not afraid to take a stand on an
issue. The problem of busing is
on everyone’s mind. Very few
people are satisfied with the
busing of school children solely
for the purpose of achieving
racial balance. At the same time
all fair-minded people want to
rectify the basic unfairness that
has existed in the past,
“The people of this state must
face the fact that the reason we
are busing today is because the
State of North Carolina legally
perpetuated a dual school
system. Something had to give.
The state didn’t move, so the
See BOWLES Page 3
Student Legislature
Ends Session
Over 400 representatives from
about 40 colleges and univer
sities from across North
Carolina gathered last week in
Raleigh for the thirty-fifth
session of the North Carolina
Student Legislature. NCSL,
which is the oldest student
legislature in the nation, passed
some 40 pieces of major
legilsation which will now be
forwarded to the North Carolina
General Assembly.
Seven Atlantic Christian
College students attended the
event and participated in the
various events. The ACC
delegation headed by Robbie
Steen presented two ecology
bills, one dealing with the
Coastal Zone of North Carolina,
the other pertaining to outlawing
throwaway glass bottles con
taining soft drinks and beer. The
Coastal Zone bill met with little
opposition in either the House or
Senate, however the throwaway
bottle bill was defeated by a
narrow vote in the House and
was passed by the Senate.
Other bills presented by at
tending schools were: “No-Fault
Auto Insurance Act,” by Duke
University; “An Act to Define
State Jursidiction in I’rivate and
Sexual Activities in N. C." by
UNC at Chapel Hill; " “Revision
of the Riot-Disruption Act, " by
ECU; “An Act to Abolish the N,
C. 'Lean' Law,’ by Methodist
College; “An Act to Establish
Sperm Banks in N. C., " by NCSU
and many other bills.
The keynote address of this
year's session was delivered by
Congressman Paul McCloskey
( Repub.-Calif.). McCloskey,
having just withdrawn from his
maverick fight to oppose
President Nixon for the
Republican presidential
nomination, urged NCSl^
delegates to really get involved
in politics especially on a state
level. He urged students to do all
they can to put at least a 100 new
faces in Congress next year so
that the seniority system can be
abolished. In answer to a
question as to whether or not a
black man like Chapel Hill
mayor Howard Lee, could make
a viable congressman, .Mc
Closkey said that a black man
would have no trouble being a
See STl I)E\T Page ;{
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The fifth annual Festival of Contemporary .Arts concluded
.Monday night with a panel discussion between Otto Henry,
composer from East Carolina I niversity; William Duckworth
of .\llantic Christian College; and (iregory Costack also of ECl'
and Robert Sherman (above), from the New York Times’ radio
station W(JXH.
The discussion followed a concert consisting of three original
compositions; “Omnibus" an aliatorical piece by Otto Henry;
“Canon-Kugue and Toccata" by John Davis of .\.C. Wesleyan
College and “(iambit for Solo Percussion and Tap«-“ by W illia m
Duckworth.