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A (fuest Editorial
A Waste Of Money
I feel that this editorial is as good a place as any to
express my views on a couple of projects which have
recently been installed into the framework of our
campus. The projects I am talking about are the car
peted classrooms and the brick walkway. In this article
I will attempt to outline the problem as I see it and to
present my argument in a few paragraphs.
First, I would like to take a look at the two projects
themselves, each of which cost in excess of twenty
thousand dollars. To look at the brick walkways first,
what purpose does it serve that the previous asphalt
road did not? The only difference that I have found in the
two is the fact that the solid soil around the area has
been turned into a portion of mass soil erosion. Then, of
course, the bricks, which are suposed to be firmly in
place, rock back and forth with each step taken. Maybe
this is supposed to be a move toward beautifying the
school but I don’t see it. Next, we turn to the more recent
waste of money which is the carpeted classrooms.
Personally, I don’t have anything against carpet on the
floor but I do feel that the money spent to finance this
project should have been spent elsewhere. Perhaps the
carpet does prevent noise but that is its only worthwhile
purpose. Just remind yourself that not only has it been
extremely expensive but in a matter of a few short years
more funds will be needed to replace this carpet.
Now, let’s ponder a few ways that this money could
have possibly been spent more wisely. First of all, the
money could have been used to finance a swimming pool
in the gym, which every student in this school so badly
wantzs. Maybe a portion of the cost could have been
used to pave a few parking lots which presently consist
of mostly ruts. Perhaps the money could have been used
to make a payment on a new library which the college
needs desperately. And lastly, would it have been so
foolish to use this money to strengthen the present
faculty? After all the main concern of the ad
ministration should be to improve the academic stan
dards of our college; therefore, they shouldn’t be so
hung up on excessive elegance. Maybe I’m missing the
boat altogether, but for me beauty is in learning, not in
walking on a carpeted floor or a brick walkway.
Nicky Cleaton
Collegiate Needs You
The Collegiate finishes another year with its final
issue. Although it has been greatly criticized, it has still
got its good and bad issues. The question of quality does
not depend chiefly on the editor but on the students.
It is rather difficult for the editor to do all the writing
himself. It has appeared that Jim Abbott was required
to do most of his articles. With dependable staff writers
this school could have produced a top quality paper. The
staff of 1971-72 was a three to four man staff which ap
peared every week.
The Collegiate of 1972-73 is beginning basically with a
new staff. According to the response that has been
received from the Collegiate ad, the staff again will be
small. Only four people have shown interest in the next
year’s paper. The question that is brought to mind is
how can an award winning paper be produced when
students do not give a darn? The only solution that can
be found is that it can not!!!
The Collegiate staff is asking that all students aid in
working with the paper. With enough cooperation the
Collegiate will win the Annual College Press Award.
Remember the paper belongs to you.
TMC
Tuture Shock
Reviewed
Dr. JAMKS B. HEMBV JR.
Professor Of English
Atlantic Christian College
Insane as the title may sound.
"Future Shock” is a very sane
approach to a persistant
problem: change. Alvin Toffler
opens his book purporting to
treat change and how we adapt
to it, and for the next four
hundred and seventy-eight
pages the author amasses a
frequently shocking, often dull
and repetitive set of facts,
figures and projections about
change.
More specifically, the book
treats the age old dilemma of
man’s inability to adjust to the
changes which shock his life.
This shock and the necessity of
somehow preparing for it in
advance is the main thrust of
Toffler’s thesis. One of the most
interesting examples analyzes
the "Throw Away Society.”
Here the author demonstrates
man's temporary relationship
with "things." As in all of his
illustrations Toffler projects the
problem to its potential end. This
weird society will learn to throw
away toothbrushes, paper
clothes, houses and numerous
other items considered per
manent today. Imagine, with
Toffler, what this does to values,
priorities etc. in tomorrow’s
(today’s) world. Just enough of
this is happening now to make
the projections believable.
Chapter after chapter unfolds
fantastic change and what we
might expect in the way of
altered standards of behavior.
Toffler succeeds in shocking his
readers, but after so much of
this we reach a saturatiion point
and when this happens the book
settles into a rut. His weakness
lies in the time and space spent
mesmerizing the readerwith at
first amusing and fascinating
descriptive details which finally
become tedious and repetitive
and wearimsome data. From the
maddening pace of our culture
through proposed methods of
taming technology Toffler spins
the reader through mazes of
facts and figures. He would have
done well to spend more time on
the thesis and less on shocking
examples.
Overpowering and impressive
as his evidence of change seems,
however, Mr. Toffler is not a
profit of doom or a confident
owner of answers. Rather he
works hard to warn us of
loopholes and fallacies in his
argument. For after all may
facts in the book were obselete
when the book went to press. He
tells us this and thereby avoids
the temptation of falling into his
won trap: forgetting the rapidity
of change when it applies to
one’s own thesis. Likewise, in
almost every instance when he
reports the potential danger
some inevitable changes will
bring he suggests ways by which
they might be averted.
RlCWAiy) M.NllW
New Wine
Atlantic Christian College, a
year in review! As the school
year grinds to a close we see the
New Wine perched atop his
thinking stool with his thinking
cap, and he’s doing what?
Eating Ju-Ju beets listening to
the surrealistic sounds of
Michael Jackson and his
Swooning Sparrow. By golly
wow, it’s been a grand year
hasn’t it? Yes kiddies, Uncle Bob
is reflecting back on those good
old times.
Remember the stellar per
formance of John Chapel as
Mark Twain in our own Howard
Theatre as he “turned us on”
(dig it Robbie, zowie!) to the
problems of missionaries
ministering to naked native
ladies. It could start a whole new
outlook on religion, The Gospel
According to Hugh Hefner.
Then there was Homecoming
with the dynamite concert of the
Gross Toots who stumbled
through an evening of bad music
with musicianship that was
looking up to wretched.
December brought Faith Day
and the Hines Gas Station did
some heavy work on gasing up
the spirituality of our in
famously dead body of students.
The day ended with a
motherload worship-drama,
courtesy Roger Bullard and the
Holy Spirit. Even Dr. Wenger
made it and broke off a piece of
himself for student con
sumption. PTL for Daith Dah!
Then exams came shortly
after we celebrated the Yule. We
were back a few days and ZAP!
There they were ... exams! We
finally opened a few books and
spent the night trying to cram a
whole semester’s work into the
tired gray matter. It didn’t
work, we got a D in English.
“But Mom, the prof didn’t like
me, I couldn’t understand
poetry, and I was worried sick
over the Table Tennis Team.
Not a whole lot happened this
semester except the Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band tore down the Wilson
Gym with a skillful blend of
bluegrass, rock, and country. An
outstanding evening only ivaled
by the fire in “the dorm with no
name”. That’s a hazy incident
I’d like not to remember, shades
of Mrs. O’Leary’s extension
cord.
During the year coach H. D.
Expert ripped away at the lovely
and talented Ira Norfolk with his
caustic criticisms. Due to a
certain hatchet job the coach is
no longer dewlling among us and
Mr. Norfolk, a humble, crew cut
former Marine has made the big
time at ECU doing what he’s
goodat. Cliff Black made off with
all the records except “Joy to
the World.”
And then alas, there was
revolution and dissent in the
warm spring air that smelled of
rebelious naked feet. “Apathy
died,” well maybe not died, but
she certainly is taking a
longtime out. Right on, aal
power to the stuents, and thanks
Mars Zeb!
Time sure flys when you’re
having fun and another school
has somehow slipped by all of us
Rhodes Scholars at ACC. It was
great, wasn’t it! (In a low
hushed voice Suzy Soriety says,
“Golly Uncle Bobby, it sure was,
we got drunk a lot! ”)
Until next year this is Bob
Johnson, not for WGTM News,
but for real wishing you a good
summer and hoping you find
some peace and happiness and
reminding you that the real
Jesus Christ even lives at
Morehead! Ponder that one a
bit and keep on PTLing!
The Student Government
Association of Atlantic Christian
College met on May 8, 1972, at
7:00 p.m. in Room 112, Hines
Hall. President Robert Cayton
presided.
In the area of old business,
Mary Sue Richardson,
secretary, presented a letter
from Dan Bickford appealing a
position on the Student Life
Committee. Rusty Tabb made a
motion to reconsider the Senior
appointment on the committee.
The motion was seconded and
carried. The floor was then open
for debate. Jim McCullen made
a motion to add another student
seat to the Student Life Com
mittee. It was seconded by
Barry Morgan. After the
discussion and amendments the
Preacher Reports
motion was that a seat be added
to the Student Life Committee
and there be a student at large
which would be appointed. The
motion was carried.
President Robert Cayton
presented to the floor a letter
from Richard E. Shields, N. C.
State Chairman for SUSGA. In
brief the letter offered President
Robert Cayton the position as
Co-Chairman for the state of N.
C. in charge of Virginia. The
question of financial aid was
brought before the council. Steve
Sprinkle moved we give
financial aid to President Cayton
in order to serve as Co-
Chairman with $500 minimum
alloted to enable him to accept
the responsibility as the Co-
Chairman. Motion was carried.
Still in the area of old business
the Standards Committees were
discussed. Jimmy Adams
moved we accept the com
mittees at large. It was seconded
and carried.
President Robert Cayton
brought before the board his
appointees to the Hamhn
Student Center. Margie Thorpe
made the motion that we
the appointees. It was seconded
and carried.
In the area of New Busmess
Barry Morgan believed that
hurriedly action needed to ije
taken about the food situaUon in
the cafeteria. His main points o
concern dealt with: 1. be w
variety in the meals, 2. five an
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