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I.etter tit the Editor
Opinion
This letter is in regard to Mr.
Pet way’s editorial of November
7.
We would like to inform him
that should he “live tp the ripe
old age of 21, and should he make
it out of this college, he is not
providentially hindered, and he
runs for some office to try to set
this sinking (stinking) ship of
state back on a peaceful,
prosperous course,” he may be
sure that we would vote for
Mickey Mouse over him — not
nearly so much because we want
to vote for Mickey Mouse, but
because we want to vote against
Briggs Pet way.
We feql this way because Rufis
is about as qualified to be At
torney General as Mr. Pet way is
to be a political analyst.
Therefore, we hope that Mr.
Pet way does, indeed, ‘‘take up
his back pack and head for the
mountains to live in serenity as a
hermit,” If there is one thing we
do not need, it is a “nickel
politician.”
Phyllis Woodard
Mary Joe Proctor
Mike Sawyer
The Collegiate
MARY KAY McKOWN
Editor
Briggs Petway
Susan Hilburn
Asst. Editor
. Business Manager
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Published weekly by students attending Atlantic Christian
College Wilson, .\.C. 27893. The views expressed herein are
not necessarily those of the faculty or administration of ACC.
Savings For
Out-of State Grads
I Lived
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Last spring, Michael Boggs, a
24-year-old social worker, had a
problem. After two years of
working, he had decided to go to
graduate school. But his chosen
field — urban and regional
planning — is offered by only a
handful of institutions in the
South, none of them in his home
state.
Furthermore, the out-of-state
tuition rates and travel expenses
to one of his top choices, Florida
State University (FSU), all but
ruled out his possibilities of
applying there.
But today Mike is enrolled as a
graduate student at FSU. He
Entertainment
PATTON is BACK
The movie, “Patton”, will be
shown Sunday night, November
24, at 7:00in Hardy Alumni Hall.
This film is the winner of six
Academy Awards plus a seventh
turned down by George C, Scott
for Best Actor.
According to Vincent Canby of
the New York Times, “Patton is
a loving, often sentimental,
semi-official portrait of a man it
characterizes a near-schizo, a
man who admitted that he damn
well loved war, was surprised
and somewhat taken aback
when men near him were killed
who gusted the l^ble, believed in
reincarnation, and had the
political acumen of Marie An-
toninette."
Don't miss this breath-taking
movie being shown Sunday
night.
Nina Jones
DON JUAN IN HELL
Stewart Theatere, N. C. State
University, will present “Don
Juan in Hell" with an all-star
cast of Myrna Loy, Ricardo
Montalban, Edward Mulhare,
and Kurt Kasznar on Sunday,
November 24 for two per
formances, 2 and 8 p.m.
George Bernard Shaw's “Don
Juan in Hell” comprises the
third act of his monumental
work, Man and Superman. It is a
dream sequence set in hell, with
four characters out of the legend
made famous by Moliere and
Mozart. In all English drama
there is no more dazzlingly
sustained discussion of ideas in
dialogue. The words sing, the
ideas go off like fireworks.
Although Shaw completed “Don
Juan in Hell" over 70 years ago
he foretold and foresaw literally
all sexual and social mores and
problems as they exist today —
love, marriage, the population
explosion, pollution, war, both
between nations and men and
women — all are exposed in turn
to his acid wit and fertile
imagination.
Some years ago a quartet of
fine actors under the direction of
Charles Laughton decided to do
a reading version of it, and it
was a great success. Now
another group of excellent
players is presenting it again
and are receiving excellent
reviews. Directed by John
Hoseman, one of the finest
directors in American theatre, it
still isn't a play in the con
ventional sense, although under
Houseman's direction, it has
more movement than in the
earlier staging. Without
costumes, props or scenery, the
players enter in formal dress
and sit before large books — a
device to remind the audience
that Shaw is the real star of the
play. The drama lies in the
conflict of ideas, and all the
Shavian notions have persuasi e
and thoughtful advocates. The
intellectual theatre can grow
boring unless it is enlivened by
showmanship, but nobody ever
denied that Shaw was one of the
master showmen of his time.
For reservations and in
formation, call the Stewart
Theatre Box Office, 737-3105.
pays Florida tuition rates,
rather than out-of-state fees and
has “no financial hurdeps to
speak of.” The recipient of a
scholarship or GI benefits?
No, Mike Boggs was the first
of many Southern students to
take advantage of a unique
sharing arrangement, whereby
students in selected graduate
programs can enroll on a
resident-tuition basis in out-of-
state institutions.
It’s called the Academic
Common Market (ACM).
Launched last spring by the
Southern Regional Education
Board (SREB), the market aims
to increase accessibility, but
discourage duplication of highly
specialized and often expensive
graduate programs. As a result,
programs at 34 institutions in 12
states — Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia and West
Virginia — are now available to
qualified out-of-state persons at
in-state rates.
Unlike the lengthy and often
intimidating forms needed to
apply for financial aid, the
qualification process for the
market is simple. There are only
two requirements: acceptance
in a program offered through the
market, and proof that one is a
resident in a state which has
made arrangements to send its
residents to that program.
If a student is unable to locate
this state coordinator, he should
contact Dr. William Hovenden,
Southern Regional Education
Board, 130 Sixth Street, N. W.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30313.
Through Dreams
T rprall with some satisfaction the years I spent as a
fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps. I finished training
IphMl in December of 1942 and was shipped to England
in January of the next year.
I decenber of 1944, my fighter wing was assigned to
flv cover for a squadran of B-17’s enroute to a mission
over Northern Africa. Within thirty minutes of the
fareet a dozen or so German Me.l09’s swooped down
lit of the sun We protected all of the bombers but we
Inst four of our own P-47’s ... including mine. I let my
rraft Dlummet down to about twelve thousand feet,
^en I opened the hatch, rolled the flaming plane on its
back,’ and dropped out. The verticle tail barely missed
me.
I landed safely on the warm mid-Atlantic seas and
with the help of an inflatable raft floated for three days,
After dwan on the fourth day, I spotted land to the east. 1
rowed for what seemed an eternity and deposited myself
on the west coast of Morrocco. I guess I was fifty miles
south of Casablanca and about as far west of
Marrakech. The bad thing was that Morroco was held by
an assortment of Nazi’s, Italians, and Ethiopians.
The sign of a cross led to what was once a French
Catholic monastary. Not a soul did I see for two weeks
except an old monk that showed up on the tenth day,
only to die that night. The old man did live long enou^
to say that there was a treasure of books and
manuscripts in the wine cellar. He also gave me
directions to a small town where I would find food and
water.
I sustained myself in solitude for one year exactly
before being found by friendly French troops reoc-
cupying Morrocco. (How was I to know the war had
ended nearly six months earlier.) What gave me hope
and strength was the work done by centries of monks. I
had my choice of medieval romance, adventure, and
legend. I was also free to draw faith from very early
Christian documents as well as Moselm tales of
suspence and intrigue on the African deserts.
Through my “exile” from civilization, I learned that
no man is by himself if he has ail the worlds of culture to
draw from through literature. Thus I live.
BY BRIGGS PETWAY
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