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ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 16,1978
number SIXT
Conversation With Doster
Photo by Jane Roebuck
Primate To Be Shown
The film “Primate” will be
shown as the last of a series of
programs entitled “Public
Issues and Human Values:
Critical Discussions of the Films
of Frederick Wisemen,” on
Sunday, February 19, at 7 p.m.,
in Hardy Alumni Hall, on the
Atlantic Christian College
campus.
"Primate,” made in 1974, was
filmed at the Yerkes Regional
Primate Research Center in
Atlanta, Georgia. According to
Thomas R. Atkins, “nearly all of
the motifs of Wiseman’s earlier
works recur and are carefully
re-examined in his eighth film
Primate’ .... The officials at the
center, like the authorities in
'High School.’ are concerned
with means of conditioning and
deternmining behavior, par
ticularly sexual and aggressive
behavior, supposedly for the
benefit of mankind.”
Wiseman has called the film a
science fiction documentary
because it is about man’s use of
sophisticated technology to
attempt to manipulate the
present and project himself into
the future. For some, the film
may suggest the frightening
issue of the use of human beings
in research.
Richard Schickel in Newweek
said (hat ‘‘Primate” is perhaps
Wiseman’s most important
work: “It differs from its
predecessors in (hal his camera
discovers no saving human
grace among the employees of
the Center. What he gives us —
unfairly, according to Yerkes
people — is a dismaying study of
what he obviously believes to be
idiot savants.”
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.
The public is invited free of
charge.
Play Opens Next Week
Audiences attending any of the
four performances of THE
REAL INSPECTOR HOUND,
being presented February 22
through 25 at 8 p.m. in Howard
Chapel, will find that the usual
audience-play relationship has
been re-arranged. For this
production Director Paul Crouch
has chosen to seat the audience
on the stage surrounding the
action.
Explaining this decision
Crouch said, “The elements of
the script dictated a closer
audience relationship than we
could manage with the
traditional seating in the ChapeL
For instance, the script calls for
a dead body to lie on the stage
floor. It’s a key element in the
comedy, but if you set in the
pews in the Chapel, you can’t see
the stage floor, so that whole
joke would be lost.”
This new arrangement does
present its own problems. There
will only be about 80 seats
available for each performance.
To give more people the op
portunity to see the show,
opening night will be Wednesday
instead of Thursday as is
traditional.
This seating also precludes the
admission of audience after the
action has started. “Late
comers would only interrupt the
action and disturb the other
spectators,” said Crouch. “And
since the play’s running time is
only a little over an hour, it will
be played without intermission.”
The Tom Stoppard play is a
comic spoof of the traditional
English murder mystery with a
touch of Pirandello and
Inspector Clouseau added.
AC faculty and students will be
admitted free, and tickets for
others may be purchased at the
door from 7:30 on performance
nights.
By VIVIAN SOKRELL
Dr. Harold Doster, new
president of Atlantic Christian
College, held an informal
discussion Tuesday, F’ebruary 14
entitled, “Conversations with
Doster.” Students and faculty
alike were encouraged to ask
questions regarding individual
concerns atwut the present and
immediate future of Atlantic
Christian College.
Before beginning the
discussion, Doster related his
hopes for the college.
“Experiences at Atlantic
Christian should aid us in finding
the rationale for committment to
others, not only during our
educational process, but af
terwards as well.”
In opening the floor to
questions, Doster stressed
concern for improving our in
stitution, placing great em
phasis on working together.
One of the more thought |
provoking questions was raised
by Dr. David Marshall,
Associate Professor of English.
Doster was asked to speculate on
what the college would be like
ten years from now. Doster
stated that the enrollment would
most likely remain stable. There
would be a comprehensive
educational approach to the
student as a total person rather
than merely an academic one, as
it is now.
Doster ended the hour with
expression of appreciation for
the candor shown by the
students and faculty in their
questions. He also stated'that his
office would be open to any who
wished to speak with him about
matters that had not been
discussed.
The sincerity and dedication of
Doster to Atlantic Christian
College is genuine. But Doster
alone cannot fulfill the big hope
he holds for our school. We, as
interested and informed
students, must work together to
make his hope becomea reality.
SGA Meets
By J. FRED PEARCE
The Student Government
Association held an open
meeting in order to allow
students to ask questions about
the proposed Constitution and a
strange thing happened.
Nothing.
No questions were asked and
the meeting ended in a record
two minutes. However, the same
did not take place in the
Executive Board meeting held
immediately afterwards. In
fact, this meeting was probably
one of the longest held this entire
school year, as the Board at
tempted to tie up loose ends
before the Board of Trustees
meets on February 22.
Cindy McNeil, President of the
Freshman Class, took the
initiative Tuesday by bringing to
the Board the complaints of
many of her class members.
These complaints included
visitation hours, alcohol on
campus, and weekend
recreation. According to
McNeil, students would like to
see these issues explored and
possibly changed in the Trustees
See SGA Page 3
Photo by Jane Roebuck
Welcome Extended
Whereas, on January 1, 1978,
Dr. Harold Doster officially
assumed the position of
President of Atlantic
Christian College; and.
Whereas, we the members of
the Executive Board of the
Student Government
Association feel that good
school government can only
take place when all factions
of the school work together
in harmony;
Therefore be it resolved, that
we the members of the
Executive Board of the
Student Government
Association extend our
warmest welcome and
pledge our co-operation and
support to Dr. Doster,
Be it further rt'solved that we
cordially invite Dr. Doster
to any or all of our nuH>tings,
held on the second and
fourth Tuesday of each
sch(X)l month at 5:30 p.m.
Passed this thirty-first day of
January ninetei’n seventy-
eight.
Eric W. Sellers
President,Day Students
Campus Celebrities
Photo by Peter Chamnes.s
Tingle
By PHVLIJS PARISH
Onceyou meet AC.’s “Mr. T,”
you will never forget him —
probably because you will
always see him; whether you
are in Hines Hall, Hamlin
Student Center, the cafeteria, or
W'ilson Gym, Mr. T. will be
around.
A man bubbling with er^
thusiasm, Bruce Tingle is
proving to Atlantic Christian
College that there is more to
career counseling than sitting
behind a desk in the Student
Personnel’s Office. It boils down
to two words — getting involved
— and these two words have
created Mr. T, a successful
innovator with a contagious
smile.
Tingle’s high school career
reflected his determination.
According to Tingle, his most
outstanding achievement was,
“being elected chairman of our
Student Union.” He always
enjoy(.“d organizing activities,
and this showed him (hat his
fellow students shared the tn’lief
lhal he was darn g<x)d at
organizing.
In his second year as Carwr
and Placement Counselor and
Resident Hall Counselor, Mr T
admits that he has made some
mistakes but learntKi a lot. Said
Tingle, “One of my mottos
comes from P'ranklin I).
Roosevelt. He stated, ‘if it fails,
admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.' I
try to live by this quotation;
when you have a job to do,
persevere and you will always
fel goodabout yourself.”
One thing is certain ... Mr. T is
persevering and d<x»> not plan to
stop. Up at 8:00 each morning,
Mr. T never witnesses a
structured day — but he likes it
that way. “I like to go out on
campus, contact the students,
gain their respect, but still be on
their level. I’m not flashy, I just
try to get the word out about jobs
for students.”
Throughout his life, Mr. T’s
accomplishments have boiled
down two words — getting in
volved. Although this phrase
may sound simple, it has created
a man with high ambitions,
ready to set goals and pr(xJuce
more accomplishments for (he
future.