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Published weekly by students attending Atlantic Christian
College Wilson, N.C. 2789:1. The views e.xpressed herein are
not necessarily those of the faculty or administration of ACC.
Equal Education - Or Is It?
A Change Might Help
Watergate seems to be on everyone’s mind these
days. But suppose there were change in the office of
President of the United States, would the alleged
violations have occurred? In any case, a change might
help.
First the office should be held for six years, with no
clause for re-election. Now, the head man takes three
years to get into the swing of things, and during his
fourth year he is struggling for re-election. With the new
plan, the President would have six years to complete his
plans and policies. With no hope of re-election, he is not
bound to the favor of his political cohorts. Therefore, he
is no ones puppet.
Secondly, the campaign should be funded by the
government. Any serious candidate (One who could
raise one hundred thousands names on a petition, with
dire penalties for forgery) would be given a set amount
with which to campaign. This way, a poor man could run
for president. Also, private contributions would be
outlawed, thusly the president is beholden to no special
interest group. Thanks, Allan Overton.
Thirdly, the chief would have more power and more
responsibility. Since he supposedly was elected for his
programs, the President should be allowed to carry
them out in his own way. Yet he should be more
responsive to Congress, required to answer to Congress
at the legislature’s convenience.
Fourth, the office should be unsalaried. Sure this
sounds harsh, but it may make a difference. The
president should be allotted living expenses for his
family, his travel, and the normal costs of living. This
would mean getting rid of US-1, 2 and 3 and relying on a
cheaper more economical Lear Jet or even common
carriers. This financial cut might even be a step towards
(Heaven Forbid!) balancing the budget.
These are but a few suggestions for improving the
somewhat dirty games of politics. Anyone can look at
the farce called Government and tell changes are
needed. And what better place to start than at the top.
There is a bill before the
General Assembly that will have
a bearing on the North Carolina
Schools for the Deaf. The bill,
The Equal Educational Op
portunity Act, will effect the
future of these schools and the
educationof the hearing im
paired children.
This bill is the deciding actor
as to whether or not Schools for
the Deaf will exist in the future.
The bill proposes to place
Schools for the Deaf under the
Supervision of the State
Department of Public In
struction. This will phase out
Schools for the Deaf and place
the hearing impaired children in
public schools.
Members of the Special
Education Division of Public
Instruction have indicated in the
past certain concepts for
educating the hearing impaired
children. These people believe
that hearing impaired children
are able and should be taught in
Public Schools, thus indicating
that Schools, for the Deaf should
be discontinued. These members
also feel that manuel com-
municationsis not necessary.
They believe that hearing im
paired children are capable of
learning speech and lip-reading.
Furthermore, these members
believe that hearing impaired
children should not be in con
centrated groups, but should be
in classes with normal hearing
children.
In contrast to these concepts,
the Schools for the Deaf hold
their own philosophies for the
education of hearing impaired
children. The Schools for the
Deaf firmly believe that hearing
impaired students should be
placed in “well graded classes.”
This statement means that the
students should be placed at
their learning level. The fact
that the Schools for the Deaf do
concentrate their students make
this possible.
Schools for the Deaf also
believe that classes for their
students should be small, not
exceeding 10 students. If hearing
impaired students are placed in
Public Schools, the necessary
attention needed for their
education would not be
available. These students would
not have the personal attention
made available to them in
Schools for the Deaf.
Another important factor in
Schools for the Deaf, is that the
teachers must be qualified by
having completed specialized
Commentary by Carroll Aldridge
Maybe one day the women
dormitory students here at ACC
will no longer feel the "phalanx '
of rules and regulations which
encircles them. When that day
arrives, (and it will arrive soon)
I hope I am around because it
will truly be a first on the ACC
campus. Dr. Wenger and
members of the Board of
Trustees, your rule as the “little
Caesars” on this campus is
rapidly running out of steam.
Many members of the student
body have decided to apply the
“screws" to the bureaucracy
that you have set up here — on
the ACC campus. The students
here are tired of waging a
symbolic war against your
illegal policies. Things around
here are going to change! Not by
force but through the proper
legal channels.
In this weeks “News and
Observer" (Tuesday, Feb. 12,
1974) an article appeared on
page 17, entitled, “HEW to
Probe Bias in Curfews.” This
article by staff writer John Coit,
states the following:
"The Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare has
notifed the president of the
student government association
of Louisburg College that it will
investigate charges of alleged
sex discrimination at the two-
year college arising from curfew
regulations for women that do
not apply to men.”
The article went on further to
say that the reason HEW is
investigating Louisburg College
was that it (HEW) had received
a complaint against the women’s
regulations in regard to their
curfew hours.
“Louisburg College,” stated
the "News and Observer,”
“receives money under Title IX
of the Educational Amendments
Act of 1972. The act says
separate hours for women may
be discriminatory,”
Louisburg College may be
miles away from Wilson but
balieve me, the same thing that
is happening on their campus
will soon happen here. The
reason for this is that several
students here at ACC have also
complained to HEW. Most
probably, what applies at
Louisburg will also apply here
which means that soon Atlantic
Christian may very well face an
investigation in its rules con
cerning women here on campus.
What all this means, of course, is
that if ACC is found guilty of
discriminatory practices, the
result will be a loss of federal
funds. Now surely that is
something to think about.
Hope You Have
A Happy y j)
(Valentine’s Day|
training in the techniques and
methods of teaching the hearing
impaired. If these children are
placed in Public Schools, the
teachers would not know how to
go about educating them. The
teachers would be at a loss and
the students would be at an even
greater loss. The students will
have been placed in a situation
that they are incapable of
handling. They would have no
way of communicating with the
normal hearing children.
Schools for the Deaf insure
that students with speech and
up-reading ability have the
opportunity to develop to their
maximum ability. It is more
difficult for a child born with a
hearing difficulty to learn to talk
than it is for a child who
becomes impaired after he has
learned to talk. The General
Assembly should consider this
before saying that most children
can learn to talk.
The Schools for the Deaf feel
that manuel communication
should supplement oral com
munication. Thisi^n
that all students
equal educational 1 «
opportunities.
This bill has vital im !■
for the future of all
for the Deaf andthpf^.t ^
hearig impaired
Department of £^
struction has very f '
members who are auIiV.®
teach the hearing ii?"
Almost 100 per Lt
qualified teachers of the 1,1“'
■mpaired are presently
ployed in the Schools fL
Deaf. In consequence of this !!
social and educational „e2
the hearing impaired mayS
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This issue will play a vitaini,
in the lives of many preci„'
human beings. The majoritvl
these humans are unable
support their own convictions, i
“P the interesteo
public to write the Coramitteeoi
Exceptional in pai^imu ..j, ,
defeat this Bill.
Stand Still
By ROGER K. BYNUM
When you start getting old; when you’ve seen too
long the seamy side of life; when you have frequentlv
seen Tillich’s “impossible possibilities” spurned:
opportunity to accept and give the grace of GOD
rejected, you too may become pessimistic and es
cessively critical. Then it is easy to feel empathy for the
struggling, the miserable, the impoverished, and heap
derision on the few that have so much and lavish their
bounty on themselves. One is tempted to offer reproadi
to the student, the retired citizen, the club-woman, who
is blessed v^^ith time and freedom from toil, but can find
no worthy cause to espouse. But today I will refrain,
Today take time to live. Not to revel, except in life,
Not to boast, but of mercy received and of the wonder of
creation. Time is well spent when occasionally we pause
to reflect on our own condition, to perceive ourselves in
a brotherhood of men, to re-examine and appraise oor
actions and motives with an eternal perspective. May
our seclusion not be extended, for is there not a cause’
A time of inventory, a period of meditation ma;
appear to some an idle waste but in fact leave us for
more able to assist others and lend an essential purpose
to our own life. An appropriate emphasis on
achievement might well be balanced with a recognitior.
that it is desireable to be something, and not just to
seem. If while at A.C.C. we take time to obtzin a clear
focus on men,slife, and GOD, the future should hold
great hope and we will not likely run in vain.
“Lift up your heads, ye everlasting doors, and the
King of Glory will come in.” — Psalms.
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