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Tonee Stanley (upper left) leaps in the air during tryouts for new
cheerleaders; Missy Morgan (upper right) executes a split; Jackie Lud-
wick and Robyn Sealey support Jill Waring (lower right) in a group forma
tion; Co-Captain Diane Kelley (lower left) studies the aspirants closely
before making her evaluations. (Photos by Brett Martin)
Six Freshmen Selected
For Cheerleader
Spots
By SANDY SPRINGFIELD
Six freshmen were chosen on Sept
ember 2 to join the six returning sop
homores on this year’s cheerleading
squad.
The sophomores on the squad include
Co-captains Diana Kelley and Joan
Buhner, Felica Jones, Teresa Futrell,
Suzi Tierney and Lisa Davis.
The freshmen chosen are Jacqueline
Ludwick of Alexandria, Va., Missy
Morgan of Fairfax, Va., Tonee Stanley
of Seaford, Del., Barbara Little of Mt,
Gilead, N.C., Janine Cabot of Hagers
town, Md. and Jill Waring of Richmond,
Va.
They will cheer at twelve footl>all
games, ten basketball games, some vol
leyball games and wrestling matches.
The squad is selling sunglasses in
order to help purchase new uniforms.
The glasses will sell for $10 and include
the logo of your choice engraved on the
lenses, according to Ms. Linda Owens,
cheerleader sponsor.
“These girls truly are people pepper-
uppers”, said Ms. Owens. “They are
energetic and enthusiastic, and have
already demonstrated a willingness to
work hard for the students and athletic
teams.”
Blaze Fails
To Hamper
Intramurals
By KRISTA SCHLEICHER
Despite the loss of all intramural
sports equipment in the fire which
destroyed Askew Union this summer,
Coach Colin Steele is optimistic about
the coming season.
Insurance money will replace as
much of the equipment as possible in
time for use this year, Steele said.
Already on hand are new flag football
belts and flags.
“As long as students take good care
of the new equipment and don’t run off
with it, we should be in fine shape,” be
said.
Steele pointed out that some of the
lost equipment was as much as 15 years
old and will be replaced by new equip
ment.
A revised intramural unit manager
system providing simpler and more
direct communication is expected to
produce stiffer competition and greater
student participation, Steele said. Hall
participation has increased already by
a good percentage, he noted.
Three sophomore referees — Donald
White, Dean Singletary and Golbert
Hardin are returning with a year’s ex
perience, Steele said.
A concession shed has been donated
by the Murfreesboro Jaycees which will
provide storage space for intramural
equipment, Steele added.
PTK Sponsors
Regional Talks
By K. LYNNE HARRIS
Phi Theta Kappa will conduct a
regional leadership conference on
September 25-27 at Chowan College.
The conference will be sponsored by
the Iota Delta chapter of die honorary
scholarship society. Various activities
have been slated for the week-end. Dr.
Kenneth Wolfskill will present a pro
gram the evening of the 25. Officers will
attend training sessions during the con
ference.
The Iota Delta chapter is planning a
trip to Williamsburg for the 26. The trip
will include visits to Busch Gardens,
historical Williamsburg, and the pot
tery shop. On Sunday, transportation
will be provided to area churches.
These plans were among many
discussed at the Phi Theta Kappa plan
ning conference in Greenstoro on
August 28. The plans were abo made
for the regional convention in
Greensboro on February 19-21. Chowan
members are expected to attend the
convention sponsored by the Sigma Chi
chapter from Isothermal Community
College.
Cheer for Chowan
Duke Faculty Opposes Nixon Library;
Some Students Seem To Be in Favor
By ERICA JOHNSTON
DURHAM, NC (CPS)-Until a few weeks
ago, most of the students, alumni and
faculty members at Duke University
either chuckled or tried to forget about
their most famous alumnus — Richard
Nixon, 1937 honors graduate of the
Duke law school.
But no one’s laughing now as Nixon,
eight years after his fall from the
presidency, has demonstrated he still
has the ability to make a campus boil in
controversy.
Duke’s Board of Trustees has ended
the first month of heated debate by
passing a resolution 9-2 in early
September to continue talks toward
building the Nixon presidential library
on the Duke campus.
The idea of building the Nixon library
at Duke was publiply broached in mid-
August by university President Terry
Sanford, who revealed he had met with
Nixon to discuss the notion.
The presidential records involved —
36 million documents and 6000 hours of
tape — date from the late forties, when
Nixon first went to Congress. The
papers currently reside in a Washing
ton, D.C. warehouse.
Duke’s trustees also voted to donate
about 30 acres of campus land as a
home for the papers, if certain condi
tions are met.
The trustees’ vote was far from a
final decision. Before the hbrary can be
built, Nixon and the federal govern
ment must formally approve Duke’s
proposal. A private foundation,
established by tlie former president’s
friends, must raise about $25 million for
construction. The trustees also
stipulated that Nixon must “surrender
to the university for the benefit of the
library all right, title and interest” in
the presidential papers so they are
“freely available for scholarly
research purposes.”
If negotiations are successful, con
struction of the library could begin in
3-5 years, according to Duke lawyer
Eugene McDonald.
The negotiations, however, probably
won’t be quiet. One trustee called the
publicity and controversy sparked by
the library proposal “unprecedented.”
Emotions ran high during the four
weeks between Sanford’s announce
ment and the trustees’ vote. A trustee
emeritus, unhappy over the idea of the
library, resigned from the board and
renounced all affiliation with Duke.
Another Duke alumnus, Pulitzer Prize-
winning author William Styron, also de
nounced the library plan.
Plan supporters argue the library’s
research value would outweigh what
others see as the building’s inevitable
memoralizing of the former president.
Sanford cautions that “nobody ex
pects this to be a shrine, including Mr.
Nixon. There would be strict limita
tions” on the space in the library set
aside for a Nbcon museum.
Nixon has publicly said, however,
that he expects the library to include a
museum. All six other presidential
libraries around the country include
museums of varying size.
According to Sydney Nathans, an
associate history professor at Duke and
a library opponent, the ratio of tourists
to researchers at the six existing
presidential libraries is 1000 to one.
Yet Sanford maintains Duke would
exercise “considerable influence” in
determining the building’s contents and
design, making sure it would be more
research facility. Moreover, the
school’s trustees “can say no (to the
library) at any point in negotiations.”
Dissidents al^ criticize Sanford for
trying to force a decision before
students and faculty members returned
to campus, and could organize opposi
tion.
The trustees’ vote came four days
before classes began and just one day
after a faculty group rejected the
library proposal by one vote.
Measuring the opposition’s depth is
difficult. Faculty opposition is present
in all academic departments, though
history professors have been most
vocal. Seventeen of the department’s 20
members are against the library plan.
In her argument before the trustees,
department Chairwoman Anne Scott
noted the “all the faculty members I
know would love to have Nixon’s papers
for scholarly purposes. It is the library
and the monument we don’t want.”
She complained that “we would be in
extricably involved with rehabilitating
(Nixon’s) career, and the name of Duke
would suffer.”
‘ ‘The issue has tom apart some of the
faculty,” English Professor Carl
Anderson, who favors “cautious nego-
tions,” told the trustees. “Don’t dis-
CONVOCATION — Rep. G. William Whitehurst, R-Va., featured speaker at the Fall Convocation, makes a point
for Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, Chowan president, before the August 31 program, while later (at right) Gwen Bergey,
injured volleyball veteran, rests her encased leg on a crutch as she listens. (Photos by Doug Miller)
Popular Dee Jay Credits His Success
To Keeping Controversy Off the Air
count the anger as temporary. It will
continue, and it is extremely hostile. ”
Student responce has been quiet.
Most students seem to favor the pro
posal.
“I’m definitely for it,” says junior
Mark Finkelstein. “It’s an honor to
have his records here. Definitely good
publicity.”
“All the objections to the library
aren’t very valid,” contends senior
Bruce Lieberman. “I would not con
sider it a monument to the man. ”
Opponents try to dismiss such sup
port by noting tiiat most Duke students
were only 13 when Nixon was driven
from office.
But the library controversy isn’t the
first time Duke has tussled with its
most famous alum. In 1954, the faculty
voted down the trustees’ recommenda
tion to give then-Vice President Nixon
an honorary degree.
By RICHARD MAHLER
LOS ANGLELES, CA (CPS) - You
wouldn’t recognize the face, but the
voice is possibly the most frequently-
heard one in the history of the world.
It belongs to Casey Kasem, who’s
been coming at you over the radio with
“The American Top 40,” a weekly syn
dicated countdown of top-selling
records on more than 950 stations
around the world, for 11 years now. A
televised version of the show has been
out for a year.
“Hollywood will always represent
dreams to people,” says Kasem in ex
plaining why his countdown fomnat, on
which songs are introduced with color
ful anecdotes about the recording artist
involved, is so successful. “Our show is
about positive aspects of people’s lives.
We avoid anything that would shed a
bad light on a group or individual. ’’
Consequently, he’s “very careful” in
avoiding con^oversy and “exploita
tion.” He’ll “argue for an hour to pre
vent one word from running in the pro
gram that might insinuate somet^g
that I don’t want people to have in their
heads about a person,” he stresses.
Kasem believes the accent on the
positive explains AT40’s, as it’s known
among radio syndicators, wide appeal.
“Our biggest fans are people in the
business,” Kasem says. “They know if
we say something it’s going to be
truthfid and completely checked out.”
It’s checked out by his staff of four
writers, stationed in New York and Los
Angeles.
Kasem is deeply aware of the trials
and tribulations of making it in the
music business. Starting as an actor
and sound effects man in the studios of
his native Detroit, he worked at several
television and radio stations before set
tling in San Franscisco in the early six
ties.
One day the program director at
KEWB there told Kasem, who had been
using comedy and character voices on
his Top 40 show, to forget the jokes and
Auditions Set
For Fall Play
By TORI MUSSELWHTTE
Auditions for the Fall play, “The
Front Page”, will be held at 7 p.m. Oc
tober 5 in Columns Auditorium.
“The Front Page” revolves around a
newspaper of the 1930’s, according to
Mrs. Sandra Boyce, drama instructor
and play director.
The cast calls for 12 male and five
female roles. Cast members really
need to be on the move, Mrs. Boyce
said, as the pace is fast-moving and the
plot never drags.
The play will be presented November
18 through 21.
Prospective actors and actresses
may obtain further information or a
copy of the preview script from Mrs.
Boyce in Room 115, Daniel Hall.
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come up with something different
fast,
“I had no idea what I would do,”
Kasem recalls. “I saw a copy of Who’s
Who in Pop Music lying in fte garbage
can. It list^ things like the real names
of artists and their home towns. And at
the start of the show, I started teasing.”
The “tease/bio” concept was an over
night success, with Kasem using anec
dotal introductions to the songs, follow
ed by the “pay-off” after the song is
played.
liie approach fpplf hipj squth. to
KRLA, then the top rock station in Los
Angeles. Between 1965 and 1967 he
hosted a syndicated tv dance show call
ed “Shebang,” and in July, 1970, the
first syndicated version of “American
Top 40” was released.
“It was the wrong place at the wrong
time,” Kasem reflects now. “Top 40
was a dirty word. It was passe.
Everybody told me that term was the
death knell.”
But Kasem had faith. “I never be
lieved that disc jockies or Top 40 would
disappear. It’s got deeper roots than
any kind of music I can think of.”
He was correct. From the initial
seven stations it played on, AT40 has
grown to roughly 500 stations in the
United States, plus 400 affiliates of the
Armed Forces Radio Network. The
show is not only profitable for local sta
tions — it is the top-rated show in some
markets, and thus commands top ad
vertising rates — but it helps clue pro
gram directors into new music trends.
AT40’s countdown is obtained from
Billboard magazine. Interviews and
research, based on Kasem’s guess
timates of which song will be most
popular, begin even before the
magazine arrives. The last three days
of the work week are devoted to final
production of the program, which is
shipped by air freight each &turday to
its clients.
All of which gives Kasem a rosy view
of the industry. “I don’t hear the bland-
r.ess or the sameness in radio that some
people say they do. I think radio is
healthy,” he asserts.
But Kasem doesn’t shy away from
other media. His “voiceovers” —
broadcasting parlance for off-camera
commercial or promotional narration
— have been part of NBC-TV’s nightly
prime-time schedule for years. His
“premium” voice makes him a favorite
of advertisers. He’s the voice of Robin
on the cartoon show “Super Friends,”
and Shaggy on “Scooby Doo.” He’s
made audio appearances on “Sesame
Street,” “Mister Magoo,” and “Battle
of the Planets.”
His syndicated television version of
AT40 can be seen in most parts of the
country as well.
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ing up, and getting suspended from
school.”
“We try to let it (panty raids) run its
course, t^ to avoid injury and prevent
property damage.”
Diean Winslow emphasized, “I am be
ing as frank as I can, the college is
treating panty raids the same as since I
have been working here, the amount of
tolerance is still the same.”
Jack Britt, head security officer,
would not comment on Tuesday night’s
panty raid, his reason being that he was
not there. “Anything I could tell you
would be just heresay.”
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