PAGE 2 — Smoke Signals, Wednesday, April 3, 1974
Editorial
Merely Existing
Here at Chowan College there are so-called students
who merely exist on the college campus. To these
students there is no actual interest in schooling. They
live and eat here, attend classes when they wish, and
rarely take action in student affairs. They do not care
for their own education, and certainly do not for those
surrounding.
These students are wasting their own time and money.
They are foolish. Perhaps their parents are also foolish
to “waste” their money when their children do not even
care. These students often interfer with the studies of
other students, who are at Chowan to gain an education
and a living experience. I, for one, feel it is unfair to
those students, who are here for an education, to be
subject to such surroundings. Could the students and
teachers both gain a more rewarding experience if such
students were illuminated?
Beckie Workman
ON THE
By Beckie Workman
Photography
Chowan Photography Club,
The Steichen Photographic
Society, will hold a meeting April
17. All interested persons are
invited.
Sports
Baseball
Chowan College vs. Ferrum
College, away on April 6.
Chowan CoUege vs. Louisburg
College, home at 1:00 April 9.
Chowan College vs. U.N.C.
J.V.’s, home at 1:00 April 13.
Chowan College vs. Sandhills
Community College, away on
April 20.
Track
Chowan College vs. Elizabeth
State, home on April 3.
Chowan College vs. Ferrum
College, away on April 11.
Chowan College vs. Hargrove
Military Academy, away on April
16.
Chowan College vs. Wingate,
away on April 18.
Tennis
Chowan College vs. Ferrum
College, away at 1:00 on April 6.
Chowan College vs. Louisburg
College, home at 1:00 on April 9.
Chowan College vs. Mt. Olive
College, home at 1:00 on April 16.
Chowan College vs. Virginia
Wesleyan, away at 1:00 on April
17.
t'UMNi O* CMOWAN fOlHtJ
Editor Barbara Ann Putney
Associate Editor Beckie Workman
we cape about
GERED WILDLIFE
CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION, SBC
WHAT KIND OF ARMY? Last July 4, six GI’s
stationed at a Marine base in Japan petitioned their
commander for permission to distribute copies of the
Declaration of Independence during the July 4 sports
activities. Permission was denied. The six happened to
be members of a chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against
the War, but they were still line soldiers faithfully
performing their duties. Resenting what they held to be
a violation of their rights as citizens in uniform, they
quietly proceeded to distribute the copies they had
prepared. In a few hours they were in a military prison
for publicizing the words of Thomas Jefferson — a
document upon which American rights and liberties are
founded. What do we want an army for — to defend
freedom or destroy it? (Between the Lines, XXXII, No.
21, December 15, 1973).
DRUG ADVERTISING COSTS — Although the drug
industry shudders at advertising to the public, it spends
a large chunk of money each year on promotion to
doctors through “detail men,” trade journals, direct
mail and convention displays. In 1960, drug manufac
turers reported sales of over $4.3 billion. According to
studies by the Social Security Administration, Food and
Drug Administration and congressional investigators,
the industry spent one-quarter of that on “internal”
promotion.
Et Cetera. . .
ENDA
The timber wolf pictured on the 1974
National Wildlife poster symbolizes all
endangered species. The National
Wildlife Federation will be sponsoring
its 37th annual observance of National
Wildlife Week, March 17 - 23, 1974.
Photographed by John S. Flannery, this
year’s Wildlife Week poster focuses on
the theme “We Care About Endangered
Wildlife.” The 1974 observance en
courages citizens to learn about
threatened animals and what can be
done to help them.
Rules for Spring Pageant Announced
Our Queen of Spring, Fresh
man Princess, and Spring
Festival Court have been chosen.
The theme for the weekend is
Chowan College Spring Festival.
The coronation of the court will
be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday,
April 27, followed by a command
performance of entertainment.
TTie Chowan College Campus
Carnival will officially be opened
by the Queen and her court at
3:45 p.m. We would like to ask
your group to sponsor a booth tor
the carnival. Booths may be
sponsored by dormitories and
campus clubs. We would like to
Chowan College vs. Sandhills
Community College, away at 1:00
on April 20.
Golf
Chowan College vs. N.C. State,
home on April 5.
Chowan College vs. Louisburg
College, home on April 9.
Chowan CoUege vs. N.C. State,
away on April 11.
Chowan College vs. Mt. Olive
College, home on April 16.
Chowan College vs. Fernun
College, home on April 19.
Music
Workshop and recital
schedule: On April 3, In
strumental workshop; on April
17, Keyboard workshop. All
workshops and recitals are to be
held in Daniel Hall 103 unless
specific directions to the contrary
are posted. All students taking
piano are required to attend the
keyboard workshops. All
students taking other in
struments are required to attend
the instrumental workshops. Any
student taking applied music for
credit must perform in at least
one workshop and one recital per
semester. All students taking
applied music are required at
attend the recitals.
Miscellaneous
Phi Theta Kappa held their
induction for new members on
Monday March 25 during chapel.
Smoke Signals staff meet each
have 25 booths. Let’s make this
the best Campus Carnival ever!!
1. The Maintenance depart
ment will set up the framework
and rope off the area for each
booth.
2. The cost of each booth may
range from a penny to 25 cente
per throw.
3. Each group will be
responsible for decorating their
booth - be sure your Group’s
name is on the booth. Decorating
and setting up of booths must be
done Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning.
4. Booths will be judged on
decorativeness, orginality,
participation and interest of
students.
5. A $10.00 prize will be given
the best booth. This will be
awarded at intermission of the
dance Saturday night.
6. Booth ideas - in complete
detail must be turned in to Dean
Lewis’ Office by Thursday,
March 28. These will be approved
and returned to you by April 5.
7. Booths must be set up and
decorated by 12:00 Saturday. No
booth may open until after the
Coronation at 3:45 and all will
dose at 5:00.
8. A loan of $10.00 may be
secured from Dean Lewis’ Office.
This Must be repaid by May 3.
News Briefs
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
Jazz trumpeter A1 Hirt has
been divorced from his wife of
31 years and agreed to pay
more than $94,900 in annual
support payments.
Mary Patureau Hirt had filed
suit for legal separation, alleg
ing that he abandoned their
home on March 21, 1973, with
out cause. The judgment of sep
aration Monday was by mutual
consent.
Wednesday at 4:00 in McSweeny
Hall. All interested persons are
invited. Help make your school
newspaper a more represented
one, join the staff!
Tuesday-Wesley House, open to
all students, time 7-11.
Wednesdays-Purgatory Coffee
House, open to all students, time
7:30-10:30.
If We Went Away
By JAMES ELLIOTT MOORE
If we went away from here tonight
And I never saw you again
What would life be like?
I know I’ve lost people before
And somehow the gap was filled.
But
Could I change again?
Life is a dike continually bursting.
I stick my toe here,
Plug in a brick there.
Still —
A drop of sorrow trickles through.
Does anyone ever stand on their own?
I mean is it possible to exist
Without being at least partially dependent
On somebody else?
I know God is there.
Yet —
Can you ever stand without the love of another person?
I can’t
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif.
(AP) — Scott Newman, son of
actor Paul Newman, has been
ordered to stand trial June 5 on
a pair of misdemeanor charges
stemming from a disturbance
at a resort early this year.
Mono County Justice Court
Judge W. Garfield Daniel said
Newman, 23, will have a Jus
tice Court trial by jury on
charges of destruction of jail
property and destruction of
Continental Trailways Co. prop
erty.
Newman was arrested after a
fight at the winter resort of
June L^ke in late January. He
allegedly kicked one of the am
nesty officers in the back of the
head while being transported to
jail and had to be subdued by
three officers while trying to
keep the patrol car from ca
reening oS a road, authorities
said.
Spring Night
By JAMES ELLIOTT MOORE
Alone. Alone in the bosom of the
Eternal Morther - Nature.
Alone in the unseakable grandeur of a deep eternal
Mystery known as night.
I stand under the star-flecked heavens
Stretching my arms above my head
And become ME.
I am lost in the rushing wind
Which sings a timeless hymn
In the tops of bending trees.
The chirping of crickets becomes my litany.
Any wysteria’s transformed into a
peerless intercession.
Meanwhile, I make the poignant scent of good earth
My first lesson.
Any lush grass the second.
Finally, I give myself up
As the offering to a God
Who knows only wind and rain
And a shining sun.
Literary
jl; Mus/ngs
By PROF. ROBERT G MULDER
I was an undergraduate at East
Carolina University when I first met
Miss Mitchell. Her survey course was
American Writers 261, and we began
with Edgar Allan Poe and completed the
course with him three months later. So
far as writers were concerned, Poe was
the only important one in her book, the
others being secondary.
Anyway, she carried with her about
50,000 watts of enthusiasm and, we
thought, a brain the size of a barn
swallow.
“You must see the Poe Shrine in Rich
mond,” she charged emphatically the
first day. “You’ll never be the same
again.” At that moment at least two
other students and I immedicately saw
a way to insure an A in the course. Since
Richmond was really not far away, we’d
take an excursion to the Shrine one
Saturday, taking Miss Mitchell with us.
She was eagerly waiting that
Saturday morning. All the way to Rich
mond we heard about Mr. Poe — which,
of course, was quite fitting. Miss Mit
chell was dressed in black to symbolize
Poe’s raven, she said, and what sym
bolic Poe items did we have (in addition
to our textbook which she had insisted
we bring along)?
The young lady in our car was named
Helen; we all agreed that this was
symbol enough for her since one of Poe’s
most popular poems was addressed to
such a person. The boy with us had a
watch chain he swore to have been in
style during Poe’s day, and I got off
simply by an apology for having left my
bells at home. (I have often wondered
how Miss Mitchell would have reacted if
I’d pulled out a flask of Amontillado.)
When we arrived in Richmond with
our Poe cup running over, Miss Mitchell
counldn’t direct us to the Shrine. Pulling
over to a city policeman, the boy driving
asked, “Could you tell us how to find the
Poe house?”
The cop either didn’t know or he
misinterpreted the boy’s question, for
he led us straight to the county home,
and we had to start all over, this time
finding and following the address in the
phone book, what we should have done
in the first place.
We had to admit that the Edgar Allan
Poe Foundation was almost everything
our instructor had praised it to be. The
Museum guide was not necessary for
Miss Mitchell knew much more than he
did. He must have learned a great deal
from our teacher-directed tour, in fact,
for he followed the talking lady and her
three disciples until he could take no
more.
She took us through every opened-
room of the Foundation, explaining as
she went the important details and
author relationships of the small
museum. We listened to her read “The
Raven” from the red framed stanzas on
the wall in the quaint, dimly lighted
bedroom upstairs. In the next room we
were allowed to touch some copies of the
Southern Literary Messenger, a paper
edited by Poe when he lived in Rich
mond around 1835.
As we drifted around the museum, the
extremes of our teacher’s emotion
amused but touched us. Miss Mitchell
wept quietly when she looked at the
lovely picture of Poe’s wife, Virginia
Clemm Poe, the one made in her coffin.
She swooned, as sensuously as she knew
how, at the handsome picture of Mr. Poe
hanging in the entrance hall. She beat
her little fists as she told us how unkind
some of Poe’s literary critics were, and
she coed and ahed at the desk, papers,
and books which supposedly belonged to
her idol.
Never before have I witnessed such
complete joy as displayed by Miss
Mitchell in being involved in an author’s
shrine. Her exhiliration and deter
mination to share a part of the love she
felt for the great author impressed us so
much we nearly forgot the grade of A
the trip had provoked. The bones of the
deceased writer must have rested more
pleasingly as we left the shrine that
evening, and I almost thought Poe’s
face smiled at his loyal admirer as we
walked through the hall to the exit.
Because of all this, however, I have
maintained through the years a deep
respect for Poe’s works, often sharing
some of Miss Mitchell’s enthusiasm
with my own students. Because of her
and the Poe excursion, I feel as though I
knew Mr. Poe, and the grade of A which
we all three received in the course was
justly deserved. " —
The last I heard from Miss Mitchell
her sparks of enthusiasm were burning
brighter than ever, though her station in
hfe had changed somewhat. She had
married a dirt farmer from somewhere
in Tennessee, and together they were
happily raising rutabags in the garden
and pigeons in the attic.
TOKYO (AP) - Chinese
Communist party Chairman
Mao Tse-tung met in Peking to
day with officials of Prince
Norodom Sihanouk’s Cam
bodian government-in-exile,
Hsinhua, the official Chinese
news agency, reported.
Hsinhua said the meeting
lasted an hour and 40 minutes
and “proceeded from start to
finish in an atmosphere of
warmth, cordiality, friendship
and militant solidarity.”
To a Summer Friend
By BARBARA PUTNEY
If we fell in love again,
would it ever be the same?
Could the emptiness of your eyes
be restored with the tenderness I knew?
Again the weather is warm
and life is born anew.
But, with thoughts turning to you,
something dies inside.
When summer comes
you’ll be gone.
But the love that remains
will be the fire of my soul.
PANAMA CITY, Panama
(AP) — Ellsworth W. Bunker,
the chief American negotiator
for a new Panama Canal
treaty, resumes talks today
with Panamanian Foreign Min
ister Juan A. Tack.
Bunker arrived Monday and
was immediately flown to Con-
tadora island, 15 minutes from
the capital, where the negotia
tions are held. He is scheduled
to leave Friday.
“The guy who leans on his
family tree may end up never
gelling GUI of Ihe woods.”
Streaking Comments
Townspeople—One Murfreesboro resident labeled the
coUegiate fad “the greatest show on earth” and said,
“I’m sorry they’ve quit already.” Another citizen
remarked “it’s about time we heard about something
besides Watergate.” In addition, the most emphatitic
statements came from a local person, who, having
missed it all, said “you cannot imagine how disap
pointed I am. I feel like a social outcast because I wasn’t
on hand for the festivities.”
However, all comments were not favorable. Some
spoke of the streakers as being “lewd and indecent with
no respect for themselves or anybody else” while
another recommended that the culprits be sent to see a
psychiatrist. Finally, a lady remarked, “I am so
ashamed for these people because apparently they have
no shame for themselves.”
Outsiders—An Atlantan writing to his younger cousin
as Chowan had the following remarks: “Oh yes, I have
heard and seen some streaking from the campus of
University of Georgia. I must be showing my age, as I
find it disgusting to put it mildly. God only knows what
their sick minds will think of next. You may have my
share of it if you find it pleasurable. You might try
hanging that gold tassel on something else and do your
streaking to receive your diploma!”
Intramural
Summary
Released
A summary of men’s in
tramural champions thus far this
year are;
Flag football. Derelicts of
Parker Third Floor; track and
field, Dawgs of Parker Fifth
Floor; cross country, Nads of
Parker Seventh Floor; Chowan
500 bike race. West Second
North; football place kicking.
Roaches of Parker Second Floor;
wrestling, Dingalings of Parker
Sixth Floor; free throw shooting.
Weasels of Parker First Floor;
volleyball, Mixon Hall; table
tennis, Amen Bros, of West Third
South; card playing, Mixon.
Spring semester activities
planned are:
Basketball, swimming, weight
lifting, golf, tennis, softball,
checkers, co-ed tennis, bad
minton, race walker, horseshoes,
billards.
Parker Eight Floor won the
men’s intramural basketball
championship by beating West
Third-North. All other Spring
activities are now underway. An
intramural “over-all” champion
will be announced at Honors Day
on May 3. Freshmen vs.
Sophomore all star game will be
played during the second week of
April. A definite time for this
game will be announced later.
Mj Nei^liliors