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The (.'olle^iiate
, Briggs Petway
. . John Paca
Associate Editor Phil Faison
Business Manager
Staff Writers
Ann Dixon, Jim Farthing, LaVee Hamer, Randy
Holloman, Guy Hyatt, Tricia Lough, Mary Kay Merkle,
Russell Rawlings, Leigh Taylor, Brad Tucker.
Photographers Peter Chamnessand Doug Hackney
"The Collegiate" is published weekly by the students of
Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, North Carolina 27893. The
views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the
faculty or administration.
Paper Vs. SGA
Students Helping Students
Guiding The Light
Americans have long been granted freedom of the
press. But is the press really free? Perhaps we should
look at the treatment the press has experienced in the
past few years. The events that led to Nixon’s
impeachment show that the news media is very active in
politics. But we should look at the qu^tion of the
protection of sources. Every case that involves the
media leads to this basic problem. But I think the
question should be raised, “if this is a government by
the people why are the people not allowed certain
information?” As biased towards the media as I am, I’ll
concede that something really involving the national
security should be kept out of the press. But I also think
that less material is relevant to national security than
actually is claimed. That is what this whole FBI and CIA
issue concerns.
However, The Collegiate is a campus press not a
news agency. So what should be aired in its pages? The
college is not an institution involved in foreign wars, so
national security is no issue. Therefore everything that
concerns the student body is fair game. In the future, I
plan to print the budgets of the organizations sponsored
by the SGA, this paper being no exception. I think the
students should know the salaries of their elected
officials, mine included. Administration and SGA policy
is in constant open season — if a policy seems bigoted.
I’ll say so. But praise will be given where praise is due.
There are two main points that The Collegiate stands
for. First, this paper is published by and for the
students. It is their forum for voicing their opinions.
Secondly, this is a news organ designed to inform the
students about things that affect them.
Letters to the Editor are greatly appreciated. I will
try to print every letter that appears on my desk, but let
one thing be understood; The Collegiate is under no
legal pressure to publish every letter to the editor. All
letters to the editor should be at The Collegiate office no
later than noon on Monday before the paper is published
on Thursday. They should not exceed three hundred
words. No obscene language will be tolerated. College
students should know enough about the English
Language to express themselves in some semblance of a
civilized manner. Every letter to the editor must be
signed. Any letter not adhereing to these rules will be
returned to the author for editing (or destroyed if it
remains unsigned).
Advertising is the only outside income this paper
gets. We appreciate the business our advertisers give
us, therefore we actively seek new ads. However,
advertising matter must also adhere to the editorial
policy.
So this is my editorial policy. I will try my best to
stick to it for the benefit of the student body as well as
the staff. If we all work together, the ’75-’76 school year
can be one worth rememt)ering.
Briggs Petway
Freshman Class
Elections
Monday and Tuesday
October 13th and 14th.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This ar
ticle appeared in The
Technician.” the student
newspaper at NCSU. The story
appeared on September 8, 1975,
The date is past history, but ihe
piece relates a very real
problem encountered by many
colleges. All the students at
Atlantic Christian should hope
the rivalries between the SGA
and the various organizations
never reach the point of
triviality and pettiness ex
perienced the “southern part of
Heaven.”
By HOWARD BARNETT
Assistant Editor
The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill’s student
newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel,
is not publishing this morning
due to lack of funds. Cutting out
this week’s Monday issue follows
a reduction in size last week
because of the money crunch.
The financial dilemma came
after UNC’s Student Body
Treasurer, Mike O’Neal, refused
to release the newspaper’s
student fees for the semester,
around $13,000 in a lump sum.
O’Neal instead decided to
release he funds in seven
monthly installments.
O’Neal said he was concerned
that the amount under “ac
counts receivable” (payments
which have yet to be collected
from advertisers) was too much,
and therefore decided to portion
out the newspaper’s student fees
to force them to collect more of
the debts faster.
THE AMOUNT O’Neal agreed
Language Shifts
James J. Kilpatrick, conservative syndicated
columnist, has recently written several articles dealing
with the current state of affairs in education; he has
reflected upon lowering SAT scores, noted the weak
English skills exhibited by candidates for schools of
journalism, and even defended his and other columnists’
broad vocabularies.
The central idea in Kilpatrick’s commentaries along
these lines is his distress over the decline of language.
The idea is important but not new, for numerous writers
have concerned themselves with it for many years
(Consider, for instance, George Orwell’s treatment of
the subject in 1984).
Many people suffer from a lack of perspective in
regard to their language for one important reason: their
language is all they have ever known and, seemingly, all
that is available to them.
Fortunately, no one is really confined to the limits of
their own experience in this respect, for libraries and
bookstores are ripe with the means of obtaining a
heritage of language and thought that many people,
especially of the younger generation, have missed.
If modern technology has, as many contend, let us
become poor speakers and even poorer writers, it has
also furnished us gifts in the form of countless libraries
and bookstores. In the past, no one could have enjoyed
so many books as we can today (Ironically, they
probably gained more essential wisdom from the few
they were able to obtain).
It is not important that everyone become a scholar
during their academic career, but recognizing the
treasure of language available is perhaps a practical
necessity — in being a well-rounded individual and one
who can look with a degree of insight into the world
around and make a contribution.
John Paca
Better i-CLt e.
Than. N ever . .
to give the paper was in-
sufficient, according to DTH
Business Manager Reynolds
Bailey, because the paper was
unusually large for the first
three issues, and needed the
capital for those issues
“THE AD STAFF has been
gomg around to friendly mer
chants and asking them if they
can pay us sonner than they
planned. We have been getting
some money, but the ad staff
hasn’t been able to sell any new
ads,” Campbell explained,
O’Neal felt that the 13 per cent
figure for accounts receivable
for the newspaper was ex
cessive, but Dick Pope, a
graduate business student and
member of the ‘Campus
Governing Council (CGC) who
mediated between the two sides,
said, “I think it’s a perfectly
acceptable business practice,
Mike is doing an acceptable job
of monitoring the treasury but
this is one area where he didn’t
have the expertise to
immediately see what the
accounts receivable meant,"
O’Neal said that
arrangements should have been
made to get more of the $24,000
in accounts receivable, and that
the merchants had no reason to
not to go ahead and give the
paper the money,
Campbell, however, pointed
out that the fall is a time when
merchants normally have cash
reserves tied up in larger-than-
normal inventories to ac
commodate the back-to-school
rush.
IN AN EDITORIAL printed in
the Tar Heel Friday, Campbell
said, “Ads have been turned
away because there is not
enough cash on hand to pay for
papers large enough to include
all the ads ... Current ad
vertisers have been alienated
because we have not been able to
extend them credit regardless of
their prestige and credit rating
within the business com
munity.”
O’Neal agreed to release an
additional $2,500 from the
September allotment of student
fees, but the DTH staff is trying
to get the entire amount for the
semester released. It would
reportedly take at two-thirds
majority of the CGC to bring
such a measure before the body,
since the finance committee has
not introduced one,
“THERE HAS BEEN a long
political battle between student
government and the Daily Tar
See TAR HEEL Page 5
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