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STUDENT VIEWS AND OPINIONS Page 12, Qooperation Cooperation is just one of the roany characteristics necessary to allow sati?5factory reporting. VJhen news that can be printed, is found at A-E it is the job of the good reporter to gather the facts accurately, i-Trite them dotm on paper, and turn them over to "Uie Editor of the paper. This is standard procedure on any newspaper. Since our Editor inherits the tasks of several other newspaper staff itienibers idienever an issue is to be printed, she has an understandable amount of "margin for error.” Not even an overworked machine can operate efficiently. Allow ing for this factor, don't yo\x think we still have a reasonably accurate newspaper? Harry Gregg School Spirit What’s happening to school spirit at A-B? It seems as if no sporting event is strong enough to cause any reaction from the students. Even the basketball games could not cause a stirl When the team lost, all that was ever heard T?ere a few "I-knew- you-would’s." It didn’t matter hoxj the games xras played, they were alx-jays too busy to attend. Last month when Coach Yelverton issued the call for baseball players, the school i^ras almost forced to drop the sport because only ten boys reported for practice. After he finally found enough men to form a team, only a dozen students attended the first home game. This kind of situation riiakes it rough on the coach and the players. After all, how can you have a winning team if you don't have a "supporting*' student body? Phil McKinney Snack Shop *'It's a wonder we aren’t all deadl" This comment is often heard these days. It is an example of hotr txe the students feel about the condition of the Snack Shop. Yet, who puts the Snack Shop in this state? StudentsI No one else I The Snack Shop is for the benefit and pleasure of the students. In order to continue this benefit, is it asking too much for each student to drop his coffee cup in the trash can provided, or deposit his coke bottle in the rack? Remember x-irc aren’t at home, and don’t have mother to clean up after us I Let’s keep our Snack Shop clean. Avoid embarrassing reprimands in assembly, especially when we have visitors present’. Joyce Sandlin Student-Faculty Committees Do joint comittees always live up to their names? That is a question to be seriously considered here at A-B. There is supposed to be a joint committee of faculty and students to plan assembly programs. I'Tio are the students on this committee and have they ever been given an opportunity to meet with the faculty members of the assembly committee? VJas there not a plan for a similar joint social committee? How has this suggested conanittee turned outi Are there not two separate committees T>^ich often disagree after plans for social activities have been made? Does this sound lilce student-faculty cooperation? Let's all mend our fences and work together for a unified A-B. Jane Pinkerton A-B Nickname It would definitely be to our dis advantage to change A-B College’s nick name '‘'Bulldogs." The disadvantage would lie in the fact that there are two other schools in the Western Carolina Junior College Conference—Gardner-VJebb and Wingate with the "Bulldog" nickname. As it has been in the past, it is easier to mistake our team in print for either Wingate or G-VJ and both usually field vanning teams. Now when we stajrt fielding winning squads Me should change our nick-name so readers would not confuse us with the lower class losers but until then, \ie should leave well enough alone. Boj'ce Ford Fun The only threat to our nation you hear much about today is the threat of war, of complete destruction and des olation under The Bomb. But another threat, equally as terrible, is covered up and seldom mentioned. That threat is the threat of over-organized good times. In the "good old days" (as recent as my ot^m childhood a few years ago), kids could have a ball just "doing nothing", inventing their oim ways to be lazy when that’s what they wanted to do. They were free for the first and only time in their lives,and they enjoyed that freedom any vray they xjished. But in today's high-pressure society even the fun and freedom of youth has been captured and ruined by "Together ness," Organization, Belonging, whatever you v/ant to call it. If a kid wants to do something on his om and not become a member of one of the Forced Fun organizations, he’s looked on as anti social, a misfit. ("Forced Fun" organ izations are groups such as boys' clubs. Scouts, etc. xd-th their delinquont-gang sounding names of Wolf Pack, ingles, and explorers.) Iherc’s no room for an individual to be an individual and even in later life, the people xjho try to escape conformity and become individ uals find themselves categorized under the group-namc of "Beatniks." Let’s ease up on these mass fun organizations, and let kids be kids on their own again. It’s their only chance for creative freedom, Jerrj^' McHone "Ma, can I go out and play?" "T'Jhat, *rith those holes in your trousers?" "Naw, with the kids across the street."
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