Vol. 3. No. 23
North Carolina School of the Arts
March 3. 1969
Ruder, Klein To Play
No Plans
To Scrap Draft
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS)-^«esi-
dent Nixon instructed the Department
of Defense January 30, to establish
a conmission "to develop a detailed
plan of action for ending the draft"
after "expenditures for Vietnam are
substantially reduced."
Secretary of Defense Melvin
Laird has since stated, however,
that after the war "we could move
toward a voluntary army situation,
and not rely on the draft as heavily
as we have had to during the last 5
years." Laird’s statement reflects
a general attitude that the Selec
tive Service System should not be a-
bolished.
Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore) and
8 others have introduced a bill
which would provide incentives to
attract more volunteers and end mi
litary induction. The Bill would
retain the Selective Service System
on a standby basis capable of being
reactivated on the recommendation of
the President and action of Corgress.
In introducing the bill Hatfield de
scribed conscription as a "drastic
invasion on individual liberty" and
"involuntary servitude, plain and
simple."
Scholarships
Limited
Mr. William Burton, Director
of Financial Aid, announced last week
that all students had received ap
plications for financial aid for the
coming school year but from the la
test reports "the applications are
coming in at an alarmingly slow
rate." Mr. Burton stated that the
earlier the applications are receiv
ed, the more time can be given to
their processing. It is also to the
advantage of the student to get the
forms in early in order to receive
better work-study jobs. The school
expects to come close to its budget
for Financial Aid next year and pos
sibly there may be a shortage of
funds. Awards will be made within
the next thirty days for students
whose applications are received im
mediately. It is also hoped that
all students presently enrolled and
who plan to return next fall will
know exactly what their scholarship
awards will be before leaving school
this spring in order to make any ar
rangements during the summer months
which might be necessary.
This Friday
Four Greenwich
Painters Vlsjt
Four painters from Gr_eenwich
Village will be exhibiting over 350
paintings of more than 125 artists
this week. The exhibit, open Wed
nesday through Saturday, will be
shown on the second floor of the
downtown Thalhimer's here in Win-
ston-Salem. All of the paintings
on exhibit will also be on sale.
Students from the School of the Arts
are welcomed at the exhibit.
February 15,1969
Mike Weisman:
The infirmary has given you
permission to keep chickens in their
refrigerator (WELL-WRAPPED!) The
nurse will be there from 7:30 to
10:00-10:30. They suggest that if
the chickens are going to be out af
ter hours that you get the dorm pa
rents to put the chickens in the re
frigerator. Drama Department
Phillip Ruder, violinist, and
Irving Klein, cellist, will present
an evening of chamber music at 8:15
p.m. Friday, March 7, in the audi
torium of Main Hall at the North
Carolina School of the Arts. The
concert is open to the public with
out charge. _
The program will include duos
for violin and cello by Bohuslav
Martinu, Maurice Ravel and Zoltan
Codaly.
These works are considered to
be among the best examples of com
positions for violin and cello. A
duo recital of Twentieth Century
compositions for violin ai.d cello is
unusual and seldom heard.
Both Ruder and Klein are mem
bers of the Claremont String Quar
tet, in residence at the School of
the Arts. Both are concert soloists
and have performed many solo reci
tals and have appeared with leading
symphony orchestras in this country
and in Europe.
We Are Voices, As It Were,
Crying In The Wilderness ”
The nationally acclaimed "hip
pie" Rev. William Glenesk spoke to
the student body Wednesday, Feb. 26.
His prepared speech, replete with
quotations, proposed to connect the
arts with religion.
He is obviously well-read (no
tably Marshall McLuhan) and He re
iterated these readings to us in his
discourse on multi-media—the fusion
and interplay among the arts result
ing in the elimination of the bar
riers between art and life and fi-
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nally in audience involvement. For
tunately, we have all read the same
essays so none of this went over our
heads.
He stated that art today exists
neither for art’s sake nor for in*-
struction alone but for communica
tion and communion with the au
dience. It is the idea which he has
tried to incorporate into his ser
vices at the Spencer Memorial Church
in Brooklyn Heights.
It is valid and admirable to
want to rid religious rituals of the
passive, spectator congregation
element but this appears to be a
rather strained usage of the arts,
one that is, at present, the thing
to do and is not aimed at increasing
the individual's involvement with
God.
One would think that rather
than religion being "a form of art"
as Rev. Glenesk claims, art is a
form of worship or religious exper
ience. An artistic endeavor is a
portion of one’s self given back to
Life, God, the Universe—what ever
you wish to call it.
Finally, his fleet, chuckling
reference to the use of druga-» iii
what one supposes was an effort to '
ally himself with his captive audi
ence, was not appreciated or res
pected.
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