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published weekly ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY9.197S NUMb¥r‘fTf?1
New Name For Dorm
This banner reflects the choice of many students for New Dorm’s new
name.
Do You Know ByKARENHEDOECOCK
About The Pyramids?
Wiseman
Film
And Lecture
Frederick Wiseman, who has
been called the “most produc
tive, pertinent and humane
documentary filmmaker of his
generation” will appear at
Atlantic Christian College, on
Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m., in
Hardy Alumni Hall.
Wiseman will speak on the
topic, “The Making of a
Documentary Film,” im
mediately following the showing
of his film “High School.”
A Massachusetts lawyer and
teacher of criminal law at
Boston University who in 1967
turned to filmmaking, Wiseman
has made a series of con
troversial documentaries
dealing with American in
stitutions. David Robinson of
The London Times has said that
the “outstanding and inex
plicable quality of Wiseman’s
cinema is his ability to be ever
present, to capture with his
camera and recorder a half
spoken work or the shadow of a
lie, without ever seeming to
intrude or to condition the way
his subjects behave in the
presence of the film crew.
Beyond this is the power to
organize the material so as
never to compromise the truth of
the record, but to convey at once
the chaos of human activity in a
society where the social
machines are perilously
overloaded, and the makeshift
sort of order that can sometimes
be imposed by sheer force of
goodwill.”
“High School,” first released
in 1968, has been exhibited at the
Spoleto Film Festival, the
Edinburgh Film Festival, and
IheNew York Film Festival.
The series is sponsored jointly
by the ACC Concert and Lecture
Committee and the ACC
Department of English, and is
funded in part by a grant from
the N.C. Humanities Committee,
a state-based program of the
National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Doster
Reception
By KEITH BRACKNELL
Last Wednesday, Feb. 1, Dr.
Harold Doster had the
pleasureable task of introducing
himself to the girls of Atlantic
Christian College. The affair
was arranged on a cordial note
to allow the girls to become
better acquainted with ACC’s
new president, and Mrs. June
Doster, who earned her Masters
of Religious Education at Yale
University.
Doster gave an account of his
first month in Wilson and the
trials of learning to live with a
new place; notably, the shower
that spits blasts of cold water,
the washing-machine that
doubles as a fountain, and the
Carolina pine-pollen that gives
his voice a nasal quality.
Doster then gave some
background on himself relating
that he was the former president
of Culver-Stockton College in
Canton, Mo. He said he had been
delighted to accept the invitation
to come to Atlantic Christian
College and has plans for the
college —some of which he has
already instituted. In a
statement that seemed to
recognize a lingering feeling for
the late President Wenger,
Doster said, “Dr. Wenger and I
knew each other very well. We
had a very close friendship that
went as far back as 1959. We
communicated closely
throughout those years.”
It was easy to see that his wife
plays a large role in Doster’s
life. He met her in graduate
school where there was an
overwhelmingly large male
student population. Describing
the courtship he said, “The first
time I went out with June, I
asked her out for the next seven
nights figuring that would
eliminate the competition.”
Obviously the tactics worked.
After his brief talk, Doster
entertained questions from the
girls on problems that might be
in the forefront of their thoughts.
A reluctant pause and some
coaxing from Doster brought
forth questions on the issues of
parking, curriculum changes,
and the possibility of renaming
New Womens Dorm.
I am starry-eyed. And excited.
This is what I have most wanted
to see in Egypt. The pyramids.
The pyramids.
The bus labors up the hill
toward Giza; the monstrous
pyramids loom ahead. The bus
creeps to the summit. Hurry,
hurry! 1 want to see the
pyramids — now! The ex
citement increases but the bus
can only inch forward. The
stones of Cheops’ pyramid look
smaller than I had expected.
Each block should be about five
feet high according to my
Ancient Art History notes. If this
bus ever gets there I shall see for
myself.
Ths bus crosses the summit. I
am here. At the pyramids. I
think of books and postcards
with this scene. Now I can say
that I am there. At the
pyramids. I stood on Cheops’
pyramid and I shinnied up and
down the narrow corridors of all
three and I climbed...
Wait. The pyramids are not
supposed to have the kids
begging for bacsheish or the
Arab men selling goods wrapped
in year old newspapers. Or even
the orange and langelo sellers.
How can I make pictures with all
the clutter? How can I get to the
nearest pyramid without being
mobbed? No, I do not want a
camel ride. Yes I am American
and yes America is good. No
bacsheish - I need money
myself. Carter? I do not know
him personally. HELP!
The mob of Arabs increases as
our group of twenty-eight forces
its way to the smallest pyramid,
that of Mycernius. Our guide
gives a few measurements and
warns us not to get on a camel
unless we are prepared to pay.
Our reception crowd is in
creasing — word must be
spreading that an American
group is here. Americans —
money. The guide is describing
the inner chambers of the tomb.
I only hear fragments; the sales
talks of the Arabs shatter
Dorea’s lecture.
The dusty youth in front of me
is insisting that I ride his
donkey. Not now. His deter
mination to get something from
me grows. No, I have no bac
sheish. No cigarettes or ink
pens.
Back to the pyramid’s
dimensions ... “Hi-yo, Silver. Hi-
yo. Silver, Hi-yo, camel. Camel
ride? Camel ride? Fifty piasters
to ride camel. Only fifty piasters
to ride camel.” Could you please
repeat the last dimension,
Dorea? I have camel drivers
trying to get me to ride their
camel.
Our group serges toward the
tomb’s entrance. Gradually the
Arabs leave, heading for the
latest tourist arrivals. The more
persistent venders are cautioned
by the tourist police. Finally I
feel the privacy of the inner
chamber in Mycernius’
pyramid.
“One pound for necklace. One
pound. No pounds? One
American dollar. America
good? You like?” I have not
reached the exit before 1 am
bombarded with sales talks. “No
I do not need one necklace, but I
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By J. FKEI) I’EAHCE
At this rate, nothing will bo
named. As of now, the student
body at ACC cannot sw'm to get
organizinj in their movement to
liave New Dorm named.
Students recently began a
drive to honor the late Dr.
Arthur Wenger by naming New
Dorm after him. However, since
that drive began, the Student
Government Association has
gaimxl new insights on the
situation One thing which the
SCiA iearnwi was llwt there is
already a drive to luive New
Dorm named after Sara Bain
Ward, the pri'senl Dean of
Women. This will not Ik> easy,
though, because the ACC Biwrd
of Trustees has a policy of not
naming any building after a
living pt'rson.. In Ihis case, the
students obviously boix' ttut
Dean Ward will not have
anything niimi>d after her for a
long, long lime.
Anotlier subject of discussion
is the possibility of ACC and the
City of Wilson jointly building a
Fine Arts Center in the near
future. If Ihis is done, it w(Hild
be an even greater honor to have
Dr. Wenger's name placed on
the front of that building. Some
students are not happy with this,
either, because (1) the center is
only in the “talking about
planning” stages and by the
time the building is completed,
the dc>sire for naming I he
building after Dr. Wenger may
liave subsided, and (2) the
possibility exists that the City of
Wilson may have their own
name in mind.
A third possibility exists in the
fact that the Nursing Building is
still nameless. It would tx> fair
that this building b(' named after
Dr. Wenger since it was he who
brought the Nursing Depart
ment to the campus.
Obviously the issue is up in the
air, but the SGA plans to face it
this Tuesday at their regular
5:30 meeting, SGA members
urge anyone who is interestiKl in
this subject to please come to the
meeting and let their feelings be
known.
Foy
Presents
Lecture
Dr. Ted C. Foy will present on
Wednesday, February 15, at 8:0()
p.m., the third lecture in the
American Association of
University Professors 1977-78
t'aculty Lecture Series. The
subject of Dr. P'oy’s lecture will
be “Dost Thou Like Pictures?”
The slide-lecture presentation
will survey the strange, eventful
history of Shakespeare on film
and will concentrate on the ways
that the verbal medium of
Shakespeare’s language has
been translated into the visual
medium of the cinema. The
lecture will be held in the Choral
Room of the Roma Hackney
Music Building. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend. The
lectures are open to the public
and free of charge.
The public is invited free of
charge.
The cold didn’t seem to bother these three or any other ACC students
Thursday when Wilson was blanketed in snow.