PAGE TWO—Smoke Signals, Wednesday, September 29, 1971
EDITORIALS
One of the Best
During my freshman year I often heard people give
the reason why they came to Chowan: The reason I
repeatedly heard was "I came to Chowan because this
was the only place that would accept me." This phrase I
heard so often that I got tired of hearing it.
If it is easy to get into Chowan, is it easy to stay in?
According to statistics, here at Chowan last year we had
1,472, full time equivalent students, at the starting of
first semester. We had 147 students declared ineligible
for academic reasons, although approximately one-
third of these came to cummer school and reinstated. In
AAay 1971, we had 226 students who graduated. Ac
cording to these statistics, it is pretty easy to get into
Chowan, but staying In takes more. It takes time, study
and discipline. Dr. Whitaker in chapel stated that
Chowan Is one of the top five Junior colleges in the
United States.
Chowan is just giving some people a second chance,
people that may not have gotten accepted at any other
college.
—AAary Townsend
Evaluate Priorities
Anytime you engage in a conversation with another
student you can be sure that tow things will be
discussed.
Often times nothing else will be discussed. Number
one is usually what harsh rules are inflicted upon us
here at Chowan. Number two would most likely be an
account of the latest adventures of Deputy Dog (Mr.
Graham) and his disciples (as they are commonly
called.).
Certainly there is merit in discussing these two topics
because each play important roles in our dally lives on
campus. However, the writer is suggesting that too
much emphasis is placed on these two topics. After all,
our main objective in being here is the first place is to
obtain an education, an education that each of us are
paying dearly for.
If we put more time, effort and emphasis on our
education, then these trivial matters of petty
regulations and Deputy Dog would soon lose their im
portance. Trouble has a habit of always finding those
persons who are constantly searching for it. Perhaps,
we as students at Chowan, should re-evaluate our
priorities.
NOTE; Any opinions pro or con concerning this
editorial will be gladly accepted and published. Simply
wirte a letter to the editor, sign it, and bring it to AAc-
Sweeney Hall.
—Richard Jackson
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Circle K Speaks Out
By JIM HUNTER
The oHicers for the Chowan-
College Circle K Club for the
academic year of 1971-72 are as
follows: trdifrny; zJim Hunter;
Vice-President Paul Howard;
Secretary, Willie Davis;
Treasurer, Tom McNear; and
Social Co-Chairman, Don Win
slow.
The faculty-advisor for Circle
K this year is Mr. George
Hazelton, Professor of Physics.
Circle K is sponsored by the
Ahoskie Kiwanis International
Club.
Circle K is basically a service
organization. It is ciurently a
male college student
organization but presently
consideration is being given to
making the Club co-ed. Circle K
is open to all freshman and
sophomore male students. The
Club has local, district and in
ternational dues, which are
payable shortly after being ac
cepted as a member. The dues
totalled come to eleven dollars:
five of which are for local,
Wpmmopndi Fgptbgl I,
It's popular at this time of year for the male sspecies
to issue a "Football Handbook for Ladies." The theory is
that ladies would see more than fashions and half-time
shows at football games if they understood the game's
terminology.
So here is a version of a handbook for the females, who
aren't supposed to know that what it was was football;
FOOTBALL—Name of a contact sport played on a
field, in which players run with a ball, pass it, catch it,
knock other players down to keep them from getting
close to it, tackle players who have it, and even oc
casionally kick it, at all times standing on or falling off
their feet.
PASS—Ladies already are supposed to know what
that means.
PUNT—Something you laugh at (or, if sophisticated,
sneer at) when it's a play on words.
TACKLE—Something a player uses in fishing for the
ball or in stopping the ball carrier from reaching a limit
(or goal) and bragging after a great catch.
TOUCHDOWN—One of the things players do in pre
game warm-up exercises.
SAFETY—It has to do with being pinned securely or
hemmed in behind a line.
CLIPPING—Well, if you prefer, something to be
saved for the scrapbook if your boyfriend makes
headlines by scoring the winning points.
STRIPLINES—What distinguishes the players from
the game's policemen.
UPRIGHT—That which marks a player's success if
he is a field goal kicker.
GAME PLAN—Technological jargon for old-
fashioned determination to outscore the opposition.
RED DOG DEFENSE—The method they use at
Chapel Hill's Kenan Stadium to keep canine creatures
from delaying the game.
FRONT FOUR—A block of seats for VIP couples in
the University Guest Box, squarely on the 50-yard line
with no other persons obscuring the view.
SECONDARY—The game itself if you are a fan who
really needs a handbook to tell you what's happening
among the players.
POSTSCRIPT—Except by stretch of someone's
perverted imagination, this has nothing to do with
football. Rather it's the editor's notation that the paper
will welcome open forum letters from Women's Libbers
protesting this and every other "Football Handbook for
Ladies."
—Smithfield Herald
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EVIEW
By
Jay Sidrer |
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THE WHO
The Who’s act, snazzy as it
remains’ has toned down over the
last couple of tours.
Most noticeable’ they’ve
discarded the dazzling fop finery
in which they first arrived on
these shores for comfortable,
functional clothing that’s easier
to rampage about in. And
recently they’ve given the im
pression of consciously at
tempting to complement one
another’s physical presonces,
where in days past each tried to
focus the attention of every one in
the audience. John Entwistle has
owned up that playing bass for
the Who doesn’t bore him as
much as it once did. Now he has
been {retending that he’s bored
because he thinks it looks best for
him.
Peter Townshead, whose need
to brutalize his audience used to
smash his guitar at the end of
every performance, now has
abandoned that strategy in favor;
of safer and saner climaxes.
These changes derive from the
group’s need to demonstrate
themselves Serious Artists in
stead of gimmick-mongering
kids.
Its a monumental testament to
their greatness, therefore, that a
lot of NEXTtransends their
reckoning to emerge mostly
exciting as well as awesomely
admirable.
With all sorts of people in
recent years, from Led Zeppelin
to Alice Cooper it was only
natural that the Who should want
to make a clearly defined
stylistic statement.
They’ve done exactly, that in
NEXT. The music is indisputably
excellent, with Keith Moon
playing drums more precisely
than ever before on record.
Entwistle plays bass in a
scrumptious melodic and rhyth
mic flourishly manner. Town-
shend resounding monster chords
of the classic sort plays with
Dormitory Officers Listed
Rerun for Ben
Oft-Quoted Ben Franklin is credited with this thought;
"When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I
have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself that, were the
offer made, I would engage to run again, from beginning
to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be
the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition,
certain errors of the first."
COLLEGE STREET HALL
Mr. Charles Helms
President, Alan Wilson
Vice-President, Kenneth
Thomas
Secretary, Hunter Haslett
Treasurer, Steve Benoit
Social Co-Chairman, David
Baird, Robert Lovick.
EAST HALL
Mr. Tony Collier
President, Terry Cagle
Vice-president, SEMMIE
Taylor
Secretary-Treasurer, Gary
Brock
Social Co-Chairmen, James
Elwood, Joseph Gro
SUPERINTENDENT'S barracks
Mr. Jim Hunter
President, Earl Killmon
Vice-President, Ronnie Powell
Secretary-Treasurer, Dean
Walton
Social Co-Chairmen, Billy
Petree, Howard Stewardt
WEST HALL
Mr. Jerry Goney
President, David Longest
Vice-President, Herbert Lee
Secretary, Rick Pettus
Treasurer, C. A. (Bubba)
Floyd
Social Co-Chairmen, Bill
Moore, Larry Ellis
MIXON HALL
Mr. Paul Tuttle
President, C. J. Bordeaux
Vice-president, Theodore
Minatel
Secretary-Treasurer, Barry A.
Bradberry
Social Co-Chairmen, James K.
Tilley, Daniel Musselwhite
SOUTH HALL
Mr. Jerry Morris
President, Robert Dolan
Vice-President, Michael
McKillips
Secretary-Treasurer, Fred J.
Runyan
Social Co-Chairmen, Norman
EMdleton, George Kesler.
SMOKE SIGNALS
Published Bi-Weekly. Chowan College,
Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855
EDITOR Teresa Shoulders
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Carol Denton
SPORTS EDITOR Richard Jackson
STAFF MEMBERS
Karen Long
Arthur Riddle
Joseph Stinson
Nancy Long
Cheryl Whitehead
Melody Matthews
Jay Sidner
Janet Griffin
Literary
M usings
By I>ROF. ROBERT G. MULDER
five which are for international
and one of which is for district..
Circle K has meetings
everyTuesday night at 7:00 PM
M. in Robert Marks Hall in Room
124. It is at these meetings that
discuassions and preparations
are made for the service projects
that the Club decides it’s
members can handle.
While Circle K has not been
active in a really big project, as
of yet, it has accomplished some
small ones. One such service is
the raising and lowering of the
national flag daily on campus.
Another such service was the
placing of a list of telephone
numbers by the phones in the
dorms.
Other promects will be un
dertaken as they present
themselves. Some of those under
consideraion are as follows: a
street(curb) address project tor
Murfresboro, a bottle-pick up
drive for the sake of con
servation, and the club’s
assistance to the Bloodmobile
drive.
Circle K is open to any and all
suggestions on projects that this
club might participart in. See
one of the officers or a member of
Circle K, or better yet
come to the club meeting on
Tuesday night.
exemphous efficiency and
taste. As for the albums
production, Townhead has, with
the able assistance of Glyn Johns
in a dual role of engineer and co
producer have recorded one of
the most masterfully recorded
rock albums in recent times.
With the long LP version of
“Won’t get fooled again,” they’ve
succeeded in producing a com
prehensive primer of basic Who
style.
Townshead wrings more than
his money’s worth out of his
synthesizers, making use of them
more than any rock ex
perimeter before him.
“Baba O’Riley sets the stage
for the band’s entrance with a
prerecorded VCS3 part Town-
shend obtained by programming
it into a computer hooked up to
the synthesizer.
There’s Roger Daltreys singing
which is so wondrous that it’s
enough to deep the listener’s
mind off the real meanings. An
there you have it, an album that
ranks right up there with Alice
Cooper or the Rolling Stones.
Insects such as queen ants
and termites may live for 50
years while some adult May flies
live less than two hours, accor
ding to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
An Outstanding
Collection of Letters
In 1962 while I was doing graduate
work at East Carolina University, Mac
Hyman was teaching American
Literature. Though I never studied
under Hyman (his course was for
under graduates), no student was
unaware of the presence of this best
selling celebrity author of No Time For
Sergeants.
Hyman was somewhat of an enigma,
so far as I'm concerned, for he looked
upon graduate students as un
necessary evils and for no apparent
reason. Not that he was unwilling to
discuss his success, for he was well
aware that he had arrived. He even
wished the same kind of success for the
would-be author, although he, like so
many other writers, had no magic
formula tor the best-seller and to talk
with Mac was to understand that it just
"happened one day."
I knew him only a few months before
he died of a sudden heart attack at the
age of forty (summer of '63).
One of his former teachers. Dr.
William Blackburn of Duke University,
has edited a collection of Hyman's
personal letters. (Love, Boy — The
Letters of Mac Hyman, selected and
edited by William Blackburn. Louisana
State University Press, 227 pp., $5.95.)
The collection really reads like a novel
knowing Mac in the flesh revealed
mush less about him than these letters
to his friends.'
I extract the following passage for
our readers for two reasons; first, it
gives insight into the inellectualism of
some professors; and two, the writer
mentions one of my literary idols, Ovid
Williams Pierce, under whom I studied
creative writing at E. C. U. the same
time Hyman was there.
"How do you like teaching? I can't
quite make it out. At first I'd go in
there and talk like a mad-man as hard
as I could go for what seemed like four
hours, cov«r
Aristole to Faulkner, until I was hoarse
and exhausted, and then would look at
my watch and see that I had killed
about fifteen minutes, and see all those
faces staring at me in what I have
since decided was a kind of horror, and
then almost panic. So I went around
getting tips on teaching methods,
talked with Ovid Pierce . . . and
learned such things as how to spend
fifteen minutes calling the roll, five or
ten minutes letting windows up and
down, another fifteen minutes or so
talking about the next days assign
ment, so that I can now spend almost
the whole damned hour without ever
mentioning the subject. Ovid says
when he runs down he just goes over
and stares out the window for awhile.
The students, he says, think he's
thinking. He says with concentration
he can stand there staring out for as
long as ten minutes sometimes. He
says it makes the students nervous as
hell. Anyhow, I haven't been able to
manage that yet."
Letters do not usually fascinate this
writer; however, we recommend
without hesitation this recent collec^
tion of Mac Hyman's personality. "
Smasher of Icons Dies
Not because he was a literary figure
of note but because he was a colorful
personality, we feel obligated to
mention the death of S. Wade Marr of
Raleigh. As we write these words
(Wednesday, September 22, 2;00
o'clock P. M.) a funeral service is
being conducted for Marr in Raleigh
whereupon his 55-year-old body will be
sent to Duke University Medical
School, according to his own request.
Many saw this man as a latter day
Socrates, seemingly limitless in
knowledge and perception. Some felt
that he was a crazy eccentric. There is
no one who claims to have understood
him.
His home is a musty L-shaped
cement block basement apartment
adorned with graffiti and a 4-foot
poster of Ho Chi Minh. It was here that
he kept his collection of Nietzsche, the
19th century German philosopher and
Marr's god.
"Here he would hold court daily, in
underpants and undershirt, for an
almost constant flow of visitors from
all walks of life. Striking in long, gray
hair combed straight back and a gray
goatee on a long drawn face, he would
inevitably carry 90 percent of the
conversation.
"He strode his thin, 6-foot-3 fame
around Duke University, then Trinity
College, in a sweat-shirt with its
sleeves hacked off at a time when
students wore starched collars and
suspenders under their double-
breasted cgats. He was arauina
ac^inst~^nl¥rSOT mvMlviltfi^ iW
Vietnam long before John Kennedy
became president and was trying to
sell automobile safety belts long before
Detroit knew what a buckle was."
An ordained Congregational
minister, Marr attended Harford
Theological Seminary, married, and
fathered three children—all to be left
in the North to return to his birthplace
for meditation and reading.
He saw life as a process of in
dividuals interacting and attempting to
show, through example mostly, how
individuals should strive to relate
positively toward another.
Poor thing—Marr didn't believe in
heaven. They dressed him up Wed
nesday to surpass any appearance he
had presented in the past few years,
and for what purpose? The man has no
where to go.
A View from Columns
By SAMBLOTZ
SGA President Bill Hutchens
has not heard a word from any
authority about his comments in
chapel two weeks ago. Could be
that the show of unity which his
oratory has made SOME people
think?
Speaking of Security Force,
next time you see one of our local
officers, ask him about the little
posters that NEARLY got cir
culated around campus.
amendment will be a vote of
confidence for Bill Hutchens and
his SGA.
The SGA has a new officer.
Barry Bradberry from Virginia
Beach, Virginia, will assume the
duties of SGA male social co-
chairman. He was President of
his SGA at Kellum High School
last year.
SGA Treasurer Don Guthrie
reported on the State of the
Treasury last week. It’s in bad
shape as rising entertainment
costs have not be equaled by
rising SGA budget. Also he
reported that last year’s SGA
spent $259.77 of this year’s
money.
There has been some con
troversy over a movie, P.T. 109,
which was supposed to be shown
last week. The story, as I have it,
is that a Spanish Club flic which
was shown Tuesday night was its
substitute. P.T. 109 will be sent
back to save money.
Eddie Beach
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Greg Kenan
Frank Dunton
Word has it that SGA Secretary
Joel Rose has been doing an
exceptionally good job.
Student Legislature’s future
will be in the hands of each
student tomorrow. From this
vantage point, a vote for the
If you have any questions about
what is going on on campus or
why something has happened,
put it on paper and send it to Sam
Blotz, care of SMOKE SIGNALS
and I’ll try to dig up an answer.
There was word last week that
there were irregularities in the
voting for dorm officers in South
Hall.
SGA Budget this year was
upped to $17,000.00 of which $2,000
is automatically taken out for
community concerts. People are
beginning to ask if it is worth it.
Our President, Bill Hutchens,
is trying to make all social events
free this year, but he is running
into financial trouble. Therefore,
necessitating admission fees to
the next two concerts.
At the beginning of the year our
security force summoned certain
shaggy-haired students into their
office and suggested that they see
a barber. Does Graham have the
power to do this?
grWJng