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SURPRISE SNOW FALL—Students were greeted
with more winter weather last week as a surprise
snow covered the campus. Snowball fights were
numerous among students, and several “snowmen”
were built. The five-inch cover quickly melted when a
warm rain and sunshine followed the next day.
Light of History
Americans Adapt to Crisis
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP)
Shortages, delays, allocations,
even rationing. These concepts
are relatively new to many
Americans, especially to those
who have grown up since the
great depression.
To historians, however, these
concepts are a part of the
American experience; and one
of the characteristics of Ameri
cans is their ability to adapt to
crises.
Furthermore, historians view
some shortages as perhaps
being in the interest of the na
tion. Take, for instance, certain
building materials such as lum-
Candidafes Are Sought
For Student Positions
Have you ever heard the old
saying, “If you don’t like the way
things are being done or you think
you can do a better job, then do it
yourself”? Well as of April 3,1974
you people that believe in this old
saying will have your chance.
On April 3rd, the SGA will
begin its task of looking for a few
good people, to coin a phrase, to
present to the student body as
candidates for SGA officers for
next year. The candidates will
consist of an SGA President,
Vice-President, Secretary, and
Treasurer. Also as provided for
in the SGA Constitution, a Social
Co-Chairman for men and a
Social Co-Chairman for women,
an auditor, and a historian. All of
these positions will be filled with
this election.
To make application for an
office in the SGA, the following
requirements are made of the
officer candidates and eventually
the officers. They shall have and
maintain an overall “C” on all
work attempted, they shall have
and maintain a good conduct
record, they shall be full-time
students, and they shall hold no
other office without first having
resigned from their original
position. These requirements are
not difficult to maintain and
anyone who has the stamina and
the initiative to run for an office
and hold it will find that these
requirements are beneficial and
they are worth maintaining in
order to be an active member of
the SGA. Application for an office
must be made between April 3rd
and April 12th in the Dean of
Students office. Dean Lewis’s
office is in the basement of
Columns. They must be made
before 5:00 p.m. on April 12th.
The elections will be held on April
19th in the lobby of Marks Hall
between the hours of 8:30 a.m.
and 12:00 a.m.
Another election that will be
held at the same time will be the
offices of Men’s Council. These
positions must also be applied for
in Dean Lewis’s office in the
same time period. An article on
these elections can be found
elsewhere in this issue of the
paper.
Schedule of Elections:
April 3-12 application for of
fices must be made
April 15 & 17 candidates are
presented to the student body in
Chapel Assemblies
April 19 elections held in Marks
Hall lobby from 8:30 a.m.
through 12:00 a.m.
Duties of the Officers as
Outlined in the SGA Constitution
and can be found in the Student
Handbook beginning on page 61.
Guilford
Performs
The Guilford College Choir
presented a concert Thursday,
March 7, in McDow“ll
Columns auditorium at
Chowan College. The 44-
member choir's appearance
was sponsored by Mrs.
Elizabeth Parker and Mrs.
Dorothy Brown of Mur
freesboro, Guilford trustees.
The concert was the first of
10 to be presented during the
spring break by the Green
sboro college, founded in 1837
by the Society of Friends
(Quakers). Guilford is a small
four-year liberal arts college
offering 19 majors fields of
study, internships and honors
programs.
The choir also made ap
pearances in Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and
New York.
COLLEGE ISSUES
STREAKING POLICY
Clayton Lewis, Dean of
Students, issued a statement
recently on streaking. His
statement is as follows:
"One of the objectives of
Chowan College is to provide
quality higher education in an
academic community where
the individual student can
gain a philosophy of life which
will lead to the development of
responsible citizenship.
Within this context streaking
cannot be permitted at an
institution such as Chowan
College.
Chowan College looks upon
streaking with disdain. Of
fenders found guilty of
streaking will be subject to
suspension, through
established procedures of due
process."
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Wednesday, April 3, 1974
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Volume 5 — Number 8
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Screaming Streakers Streak
MOVES TO ADMISSIONS OFFICE—Mrs. Edith
Parker, for many years the telephone operator and
receptionist, has been transferred to the Office of the
Director of Admissions. Mrs. Parker is the wife of W. J.
Parker, Chowan Bursar.
ber, glass, copper, aluminum,
vinyl, and steel—at least some
of which is expected to be in
short supply by 1975.
If so, the preservation and
continued use of many of our
historic buildings may begin to
“make sense” to developers
and builders who previously
have tended to wipe away ev
ery vestige of past construc
tion.
EnvironmentaUsts, alarmed
at the rapid depletion of certain
of our natural resources, have
long been conscious of this situ
ation.
In many areas of North Caro
lina fully three-fourths of the
buildings are less than thirty
years old, and many of these
stand on the rubble of earlier
buildings which, renovated and
modernized on the interior,
could have been given a longer
life at much less expense and
with far less use of natural re
sources.
Furthermore, much of the
construction of today is planned
for a productive life of only a
few decades.
One has only to spend the
night in a recently built motel
to sense the temporariness of
many new buildings.
So, perhaps the impact of
tight supplies of building mate
rials is a blessing in disguise.
Artificial stimulation of new
construction has been a charac
teristic of the American past,
and wasteful building practices
have been promoted by govern
mental policies.
Lower real estate taxes lure
industry to new buildings in
new communities, and accord
ing to Lawrence W. Prince,
writing in the February issue of
Old-House Journal, “deprecia
tion and accounting practices
have artificially reduced the
cost of these new buildings to
the point where it is often prof
itable to demolish an old but
sound building and erect a new
one in its place.”
Time and time again, govern
ments themselves have fallen
into the same habit, deserting
and often demolishing potential
ly useful historic buildings in
favor of sparkling new struc
tures of far less life expectancy
and dignity.
A harmonization of the objec
tives of those interested in his
toric preservation and those
promoting the more sensible
use of our natural resources
may encourage a new look at
our wasteful procedures of the
past.
Adaptive use of old buildings
results in the depletion of fewer
new materials but also creates
ample employment opportun
ities within the building in
dustry.
Because of earlier craftsman
ship and materials, the reno
vated older buildings often of
fer a much longer life than the
thrown-up structures of the
present, thus providing a great
er long-range economic return.
A bonus—and an important
one—is the enrichment of our
society by the saving and con
tinued usefulness of buildings
that carry with them a sense of
permanency and pride.
By HECTOR CUELLAR
BOBBIE ROTHENBERG
Monday, March fourth;
streakers hit Squirrel Park after
11 :.30. Most of the participants of
the night’s activities were from
West dorm. The affair began
/vhen a few of the guys decided to
be the first ones to streak across
Chowan campus. The group ran
to the middle of Squirrel Park
removed their clothes and then
preceded to run back to West
HaU.
Many others looked on, as the
hand full of streakers streaked
across campus. The majority of
the male body was out in front of
East, West and Mixon, but all
they did was look on. Joining the
festivities was probably hindered
because of sheer embarassment
or of the possibility of getting
caught by the administration.
There was one male student
who came over and climbed on
top of a black Cadillac and “shot
the moon” as the girls cheered
him on.
The high point arrived early
the next morning when, about
5:15, the guys in West were
disturbed from their sleep by a
fire drill arranged by the Deans
of the college. The students were
made to walk down to the
maintenance building and back.
On the way, they were hooting
and yelling and preceded to wake
up the girls living in Columns.
March 5th was the night
everyone came out to watch the
stre^ers. It started when four
guys from West went out with
towels around their waists.
Within minutes the majority of
the student body was out
cheering the young men on.
The high light of the night’s
events was a couple of the male
students who got on the back of
two motorcycles and were driven
around the park in the nude,
yelling and waving at the en
thusiastic crowd.
The easy riders were soon to
disperse as the Murfreesboro
Police entered the campus to
arrest the vilators. They were
soon halted as the male student
body surrounded the patrol car
and blocked it from moving
farther on. The students
retaliated by banging on the car.
Finally the police officers were
able to pass through the crowd of
students and left quitely off
campus and never returned that
night.
As the night grew livelier, more
streakers ran across campus and
Dean Lewis followed them with a
large flashlight. Among the
streakers, there was one brave
young female who took off her top
and ran freely in the warm night
air with some of her co-ed
students.
There was some arousment
when three young female
students appeared with towels
wrapped around them. It turned
out to be a false alarm becatise
they had bathing suits un
derneath the towels.
Wednesday rolled around and
streaking was still the topic of
conversation. During the lunch
hour, two male students, at
different times, streakeked
across campus and down the
steps beside the cafeteria and
continued towards Parker. Both
students wore masks to conceal
their identity. There was little, if
any, action that night.
Thursday afternoon an official
statement was issued by Dean
Clayton Lewis. He said all
streakers would be delt with
through the proper disciplinary
channels of Chowan College.
Thursday night was supposed
to have been the highlight of the
week’s activities. Little happened
until after 11:00 P.M. when a
crowd of students assembled out
in the park, mostly on the boy’s
side, and boogied to the sound of
the man with the horn.
The “man with the horn” was a
student from Parker Hall and.
hke the Pied Piper, he led the rest
of the students on a march from
the park to the driveway down
toward Dr. Whitaker’s house and
across the park to Belk Hall.
There the students banged on the
front door, wanting in. The girls
on second floor were gathered on
second floor lounge, wanting out.
The best part came when the
girls on third floor lounge got up
against the glass and shot the
moon at the guys below. The
crowd did love it.
The crowd was dispersed by
the deans of the college, but that
did not stop them as they moved
to Jenkins. The response of the
girls was somewhat limited.
The campus was sealed off
from traffic by the Murfreesboro
Police Department, so there
would be no streaking off cam
pus. Any persons caught outside
campus were to be arrested and
fined, or put in jail for a certain
time, or both.
All in all it was a very
memorable and exciting ex
perience for all the students and
especially for the administration
of this “great institution of
learning” of ours.
STUDENTS GATHER—Many male
students gathered on Thursday evening
before spring break to watch for
streakers. The group dispersed shortly
after midnight and returned to their
dorms. —Photo by Cuellar
V-P's Daughter
To Marry
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mi
chael Ford, 24, son of Vice
President Gerald R. Ford, is
engaged to marry a 22-year-old
bank teller, Gayle Brumbaugh.
The vice president’s office
made the announcement Mon
day on behalf of the young
woman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward V. Brumbaugh of Ca-
tonsville, Md. Her father is a
junior high school principal.
Miss Brumbaugh works at a
bank in South Hamilton, Mass.,
where young Ford is a theo
logical student at Gordon-Con-
weU Seminary.
The couple met while they
were undergraduates at Wake
Forest University in Winston-
Salem, N.C. Ford graduated
from the college in 1972
Religious Emphasis
Week Is Success
A chapel program on Monday,
March 18 marked the beginning
of Religious Emphasis Week. The
Reverend Cessar Scott, Associate
Department of Campus Ministry,
presented the message. Mr.
Scott, of the Virginia Baptist
General Association, spoke on the
topic “How Much Progress in
Virginia Union University, with a
baccalaurette major in history
and government. Prior to
assuming his present duties in
1970, he worked with the State of
Virginia in Jobs; with
delinquents and juveniles in the
State Reception and Diagnostic
Center. He also served as pastor
of Richmond’s New Bridge
Baptist Church.
Monday at 7:00 p.m. in the
Askew Student Union, Dr. James
Smylie spoke on “The Meaning of
Peity”. Dr. Smylie is the
Professor of American Church
History at Union Theological
Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
He also spoke in classes Tuesday
concerning “Christian Faith and
Public Affairs”. Dr. Smylie holds
degrees from Washington
University and Princeton
Tl»ioIogical Seminary. A con
tributor to various church and
secular journals, his doctoral
dissertation at Princeton was
entitled: “American Clergyman
and the Constitution, 1780-1796”.
“The Meaning of the Good
Life” was heard by students as
Rabbi Ned Soltz, who spoke on
Tuesday evening. He additionally
presented a message for Wed
nesday chapel and spoke in
classes on the topic “Insights
Into-American Jewish History”.
Rabbi Soltz is from the Temple
Sinai, Portsmouth, Virginia. He
is a graduate of Old Dominion
University and holds degrees
from the Hebrew-CoUege Jewish
Institute of Religion, Cincinnati,
Ohio. He is under the Jewish
Chautauqua Society.
Short
FOLLOWING THE MUSIC—A Chowan trumpter had a
busy night before spring break as he “tooted his horn”
to the chants of male students watching for streakers.—
Photo by Cuellar
MINOT, N.D. (AP)—The
Drake School Board has sus
pended indefinitely a hearing
on whether to rehire English
teacher Bruce Severy, fired in
the midst of a book-burning
controversy last fall.
School officials said parents
complained that Severy, 26, as
signed his students to read sev
eral books that contained ob
scene language, including Kurt
Vonnegut's best-seller “Slaugh
terhouse Five.”
The school board ordered the
books burned.