PAGE 2—Smoke Signals, Wednesday, April 17, 1974
A Viewpoint
By BARBARA PUTNEY
A college is established as an institution of higher
learning. It is the feeling of many students on the
Chowan Campus that this is not the main goal of the
college.
Any high school graduate can be accepted at Chowan.
There is no limit on grade average. This brings the
quality of the student community down considerably.
Through it helps the students of a lower caliber who
merely don’t wish to apply themselves in high school.
Many students use Chowan as a stepping stone before
transferring to a university which, for many students,
creates a high school atmosphere.
Rarely, if ever, is a student expelled from the college
for academic reasons. Most expulsures are caused by
social problems alone. A student who overcuts
academic classes does not necessarily face disciplinary
action, but the cutting of chapel institutes prelimnary
suspension and then removal from the college. Even one
of the highest academic offenses, failure in courses,
does not necessitate disciplinary probation, where at
most institutions there would be the inevitable eviction
of the student from the academic campus.
One of the grossest academic problems is cheating.
Only a handfull of students were expelled last semester
for this, yet there were so many cases of students ex
pelled because of drugs that it is impossible to even
relate the punishment of these two offenses. Drugs are
an extensive problem on any college campus, but
cheating is eyen more widely spread and infested on the
Chowan Campus. Drugs are only harmful to the user,
yet cheatingljicorrupts the whole educational process.
Any student ^jlfho has had someone cheat off him knows
the damaging effect on his grade and the extreme
pressure it creates. The person who is too lazy or un
willing to study and resorts to cheating should be
stopped. There are innumerable cases of students
caught for cheating that have had no penalty what
soever placed on them.
Another interruption to the educational process which
has effected students this semester is “Look Us Over
Days.” Never has the administration extended this
many courtesies to its enrolled students. Not once has
the stage band performed in the lunch room for the
explicit entertainment of its enrolled community. This
function interrupted classes, meals, and, in some cases,
even caused classes to be cancelled. Many Chowan
students missed two full days of classes in order to
escort high school students. Most of the students who
attended these activities were not seriously considering
enrolling at Chowan. Even the students who were
planning to come here did not see the regular campus
life of Chowan and what they did see was close to a mad
house. Like on many other campuses, Chowan should
set up personal interviews with perspective students.
This would elimnate the confussion and give the high
school student a clearer view of the academic com
munity and each one could receive the proper coun
seling. It would also be more feasible to place a stronger
emphasis on regular students and they, in turn, could
recommend the college.
Another matter which should be taken up is that of
rules. It should not be necessary to reject a school
because of its rules, but many students have found they
must. No one can perform to their best ability in an
overly restrictive environment. A good example of this
was when the campus was gathering before spring
break. The administration took extreme measures to
prevent student gatherings, when it could easily be seen
that there was nothing that could stop it and it was ex
cellent for the student moral. One of the biggest in
fringements on the freedom of Chowan students is the
curfew on girls. Anyone, be it male or female, who is
mature enough to live in the dorm is quite capable of
knowing when to come in. It makes little sense to think
girls are less capable of governing themsleves and if
they must stay out later, must sign out over night, which
leaves much to be desired.
FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Loneliness
By BECKIE WORKMAN
It is sad to be lonely.
But on this particular day
I honestly believe that it was great.
My lonliness led me into the park
And there began the beautiful part of my like.
The first time I looked into his eyes
And told him why I was crying,
I knew that he was to be special.
FYom this day forward he has been,
And always will be Heaven to me.
He took me into his arms and comforted me.
I’m thankful, for lonliness led me
Into his arms and there I’ll be always.
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Editor Barbara Ann Putney
Associate Editor Beckie Workman
I
Radio-TV News
News Briefs
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When
policemen compare tales in the
squad room, 86-year-old Patrol
man John Reohr could dip into
the 10,000 arrests he figures
he’s made in 57 years of duty.
Perhaps the oldest policemen in
the country, he goes about
guarding prisoners and main
taining order in Albany Police
Court with a soft-spoken, pleas
ant manner.
nada County Deputy Sheriff
Doyle Nail. “He was very qui
et...one of the finest Idds
you’d ever meet in your life.
He was polite and friendly in
every way.
The boy, Charles Forrest,
was in jail today pending
charges in the Tuesday night
deaths of his stepfather,
Charles Windfield, 47, and his
mother, Mary Jane Windfield,
39.
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) —
A hot air balloon drifted into
high wires near Cambridge
Sunday night, shearing off the
gondola, authorities said. One
man was killed and two injured
in the fall to the ground.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) —
President Nixon’s delay in com
plying with a subpoena to turn
over Watergate-related evi
dence has brought him closer
to impeachment this year, U.S.
Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill.,
told the Yale Politick Union.
“I have the ominous feeling we
will have this trial in the Sen
ate this fall,” Percy said Sun
day night.
TEL AVIV (AP) — Leopold
Trepper, 70, head of the Soviet
spy network in Western Europe
in World War n, arrived in Is
rael Tuesday for a brief visit
and said he would emigrate at
the end of the year.
LONDON (AP) — Royal bod
yguard Inspector James Beat
on, wounded during a gunman’s
kidnap attack against Princess
Anne outside Buckingham Pal
ace March 20, was released
from the hospital Tuesday. He
was the last of four men
wounded in the affray to be dis
charged.
BOSTON (AP) — The aver
age oil-heated household in
Massachusetts has consumed^
nearly 20 per cent less fuel this
year, according to a Needham
computer specialist. This repre
sents a savings of some 400 gal
lons for a typical home that
last year had used 2,000 gal
lons, Richard J. Carroll said.
CarroU is a petroleimi market
ing consultant for Business
Computer Services which con
tract with more than 70 oil
dealers in Massachusetts and
southern New Hampshire.
ROMET (AP) — Police battled
thousands of youths who tried
to break into the sports palace
in Rome for a show of the Brit
ish pop group the Traffics.
Four persons were hospitalized
Tuesday night.
FT. LEWIS, Wash. (AP) — S.
Sgt. Charles Chapman ate 102
red ants during an ant-eating
contest that highlighted a sur
vival symposium. Contestants
plucked the ants from a can.
“They have a sour almond
taste,” said S. Sgt. David Brad
shaw, who took third place
among 15 insect eaters after
munching 26 ants.
WINONA, Miss. (AP) — A 14-
year-oU boy said he shot and
killed his mother and step
father because they wouldn’t
let him watch a television
gangster movie, authorities re
ported.
“I knew the boy,” said Gre-
POCOMOKE CITY, Md. (AP)
— By a 4-3 vote, a 100-year-old
Victorian house has survived
efforts to raze it and turn it
into a parking lot. About 70 per
cent of Pocomoke City’s 1,398
registered voters showed up at
the polls Tuesday to approve,
by a 413-324 margin, the pre
servation of the Isaac Costen
house as a museum and wom
en’s exchange.
LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) — A
new $30 million medical com
plex will soon be built by the
Scripps Clinic and Research
Foundation, which treats some
of the world’s famous people.
To My Roommate
Rarely is there someone
Who can care the way you do.
A person who understands
And cheers me when I’m blue.
If you should ever need me.
Don’t hesitate to call.
For you,
No distance will be too far.
Don’t let the world break you.
I won’t forsake you
And we can see life through.
Hunger
By BECKIE WORKMAN
Doors are openings.
Open mine first.
Come on in.
No lights please,
they hurt my eyes.
Come,
unlock my doors.
Touch, feel.
I’m scared for you,
scared you won’t like the secrets I hide
beneath my skin.
By JAY SHARBUTT
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The cer
tainty NBC will make a series
based on nine books about fron
tier life on the prairie is caus
ing a gentleman fanner in
Charlottesville, Va., more joy
dian a record crop this week.
“I’m beaming all over,” says
Roger L. MacBride, who said
he’s learned that “The Little
House on the Prairie,” a made-
for-TV movie NBC aired March
30, will be a regular series next
faU.
The movie, which drew ex
tremely high ratings, starred
Michael Landon. It was adapt
ed from one of the classic
“Little House” books written
by the late Laura Ingalls Wil
der, who died at age 90 in 1957.
Where does MacBride fit in?
He’s her great-grandson by
adoption. And he owns the
rights to ttie books, which chro
nicle the struggle of Mrs. Wil
der’s youth and her family in
the Midwest of the 1870s.
“I’ve just heard that the NBC
lawyers are writing our law
yers out in Hollywood that
they’ve picked up the option
and that it will be a series,” he
said in a telephone interview.
“Isn’t that terrific? I’ve been
up all night, as you can imag
ine, talking to people.”
MacBride, 44, had just
stepped out of the shower to an
swer the phone. Although a
Yankee by birth, raised in Mt.
Kisco, N.Y., he was as courtly
as a native Virginian about his
unexpected caller.
NBC, when called, said it
couldn’t comment about new
series until it unveils its new
fall line next week. But knowl
edgeable industry sources said
“Little House” definitely will
be among those wares.
MacBride, a lawyer, said he
now specializes in Canadian
land develoinnent deals in addi
tion operating his farm. He was
asked how the whole TV deal
came about.
“It’s odd how these things
work,” he said. “Walt Disney
for years wanted to do it, but
he couldn’t ever persuade any
of his production men to agree.
“All of a sudden, about 2Vi
years ago, there was a mob de
scending — through the pub
lishers — on me, wanting to
buy the rights.”
From these supplicants, he
said, he chose producer Ed
Friendly. How’d he know of
him?
“Didn’t,” he said. “He was a
complete stranger, but I liked
his style ... he impressed me as
an extremely intelligent fellow
whom I thought could do a
good job of keeping the book’s
spirit.”
MacBride, who said he’ll be a
part-time consultant on the
series, is himself an author.
He’s written one book on
treaties and the U.S. Con
stitution and another on the
American electoral college.
Religion in the News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con
sumers may see some relief in
potato prices in a few months if
farmers harvest as large a
spring crop as the Agriculture
I^partment expects.
Spring potato output was esti
mated Wednesday at 22.7 mil
lion 100-lb bags, up seven per
cent from 1973, as of April 1
indications.
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
AP Religion Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — A group
of dancing Ethiopian priests ...
a painting of a vase of flowers
... a statue of a kneeling Joan
of Arc ... the heavy stone para
pets of a monastery in France.
These are among the highly
diversified works of art cited
by a group of theologians as
the most expressive of the mes
sage of Easter.
Oddly, the only classical
western religious art chosen
was that of a late 16th century
Spanish artist, El Grecm’s
“The Savio” — and it was
picked by an easterner of In
dia.
The Rev. T.K. Mathias, a
Jesuit who heads the ecumenic
al All-India Association for
Christian Higher Education,
says the El Greco portrait
“speaks to me eloquently of
what the savior must have been
like,” and adds:
“His eyes — penetrating^ but
filled with inward-seeing Jove
— his elongated face, n^
nose, high brow, the fi
peaceful mouth give me
sion of the one who stillc
storm at sea, yet wept ovi
rusalem.”
The choices, made for
current issue of A.D., a j(
monthly of the United Presby
terian Church and the Unit^
Church of Christ, show a wide
range of preferences in artistic
expression of faith.
They also see it reflected in
elements other than human.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Sittler,
a noted Lutheran scholar of the
University of Chicago, cited the
massive stone walls and bal-
lustrades of the Cistercian ab
bey of Le Thoronnet, France.
“The stone is not subdued to
men; it is liberated in its pow
erful truth in the very use of
it.”
The Rev. Dr. Roger Hazleton,
Et cetera . .
By BECKIE WORKMAN
Art
A student art exhibit is in
Chowan College Art Gallery
through the end of April. All
interested persons are invited to
visit and look around.
The Art Department has
completed its move to Green
Hall.
Sports
Tennis
Chowan College tennis team
has lost only 1 match as of April
10. The proud roster consists of:
Chris Elliot, Chris Williams, Tom
Corey, Lenny Sullivan, Amir
Tahbaz, Robert Henderson, Don
Garletts, and Ed Spain.
Chowan College vs. Virginia
Wesleyan, away at 1:00 on April
17-today.
Chowan College vs. Sandhills
Conununity College, away at 1:00
on April 20.
Chowan College plays in
Cavalier-Tar Heel Conference
Tournament on April 26, 27, 28.
Track
Chowan College vs. Wingate
College, away on April 18.
Chowan College in the Region
Ten Meet at Brevard, N. C. on
April 24.
Golf
Chowan College vs. Femmi
College, home on April 19.
Chowan College vs. Ferrum
College, away on April 23.
a United Church theologian of
Andover Neton Seminary, New
ton Centre, Mass., picked the
19th century French painter
Georges Rouault’s still life of a
radiant cluster of flowers,
called Bouquet.
“Here a work of art has be
come also an act of praise, a
giving back of the glory that
lives all created things to him
who created them,” he says.
The Rev. Catherine Gonzalez,
a church historian of Columbia
theological seminary, Decatur,
Ga., cited contemporary sculp
tor Frederick Shrady’s statue
of Joan of Arc at St. Paul’s
Cathedral in Pittsbugh.
Joan, shown kneeling, looking
upward in prayer, was “out of
place” in the church of her
day. Dr. Gonzalez says, adding
that an “authentically called”
woman today also is “out of
place in a powerful church.”
News Briefs
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lat
in bandleader Xavier Cugat has
filed a $750,000 suit against co
median Woody Allen and
United Artist Corp., charging
invasion of privacy in a scene
from Allen’s latest movie,
“Sleeper.”
Cugat, 74, alleged in the suit
filed Wednesday in Superior
Court that his name was used
in the film without his per
mission and that by so doing,
the defendants “diminished his
ability and reputation as an
artist.”
Cugat, who now devotes his
time to oil and water painting,
is mentioned in “Sleeper” in a
sequence showing an oil paint
ing in which Cugat is identified
as the artist.
Besides the monetary dam
ages, Cugat also is asking for a
preliminary injunction to block
the film from being shown.
Wa//s
Barbara Putney
At Home
To A Rose
Peaceful
I put too much faith in you.
I put my trust in you.
That was my fault,
And our relationship fell through.
I’m free now.
The chains, broken.
The walls, tom down.
There is room in my life;
To start rebuilding,
To soar to new heights,
To find myself.
If we ever get back together
Let’s start all over
And build bridges
Instead of walls.
To be in ttie mountains;
To stroll with God awhUe
Down the paths of eternity,
Smelling the fresh breeze
And seeing nature at it’s zenith.
Everything I know is
Rambling on in my mind.
Still in the mountains.
At home.
Nothing in life can quite match
The beauty of a rose.
Its sweet fragrance and velvet touch
Show aU the excellence of nature.
Much of life is like the rose.
The friends you meet and love.
The very breath of life.
Like the rose, die quickly.
But the gragrance remaining
Is the very purpose of our being.
Find me a peaceful mountain
To live life in.
Don’t bother me with society.
Find me a peaceful meadow
With a fresh mountain stream.
Leave me alone and let me dream.
Take away my sorrow.
I have many a tomorrow
In which to worry in.
ON THE
Chowan College vs. Sandhills
Community College, away on
April 26.
Chowan College plays in the
Cavalier Tournament on April 29
and 30, in the Cavalier-Tarheel
Conference Tournament.
Baseball
Chowan College vs. Sandhills
Community College, away-
conference doubleheader, on
April 20.
Chowan College vs. Kittrell
College, home-conference
doubleheader, at 1:00 on April 26.
Music
The Chowan College touring
choir is to go on tour Sunday,
April 28-May 2. They are to go to
the surrounding areas in North
Carolina and Virginia.
Spring Festival
Saturday, April 27 with boottis,
a concert or two?, a dance, and,
numerous other activities. Plan
to stay at Chowan that weekend!
Miscellaneous
Smoke Signals staff meeting
each Wednesday at 4:00 in Mc-
Sweeney Hall. All interested
persons invited. Help make your
school newspaper-yours-join the
staff!
Tuesday-Wesley House, open to
all students, time 7-11.
Wednesday-Purgatory Coffee
House, open to all students, from
7:30-10:30.
CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION, SBC
DRUNK DRIVING-“Calififornia sets the pace in
automobile laws and practices simply because 10 per
cent of all the registered U.S. vehicles are in that state..
..Drunk driving has become an increasing problem...
This has required new laws and sterner enforcement
rules.... Patrol cars were ordered to become a part of
the traffic flow where tipsy behavior can be more
quickly spotted. Penalties have also been stiffened, the
first offense drawing a $300 fine, and that after a drying
out period can draw from two days to one year in jail
with a fine of $250 to $1,000 and the loss of a driving
license for a year. Any judge imposing a lighter sintence
must write a brief justifying it. . . . It is generally
recognized that failure to enforce drunk driving laws has
been due to the pressure of the well organized, highly
financed liquor lobbies always active in state
legislatures and around the courts. Only organized
citizens’ groups can create counter pressures, as many
have.” Between the Lines, February 1,1974.
LUNG CANCER-“Lung cancer in 1974 will kill ap
proximately 75,000 persons in the U.S., some 60,000 men
and 15,000 women. The increase among men is con
tinuing at an alarming rate. It is the leading cause on
male cancer deaths~the rate being 14 times greater
than 40 years ago. This is largely preventable disease,
since most lung cancer is caused by cigarette smoking.”
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