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JANUARY 3, 1956
8:30 A. M.
VOLUME 14—NUMBER 4
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1955
PRICE 15c
College To Adopt Semester Plan
Foods Board Outgrowth Of Strike
Upward of $10.00 worth of
damage and a series of con
ferences at “the summit” re
sulted from an abortive student
strike over “conditions in the
dining hall” here Thursday,
December 8.
As a result of the “grievance”
conferences, a new dining hall
committee was formed to eat
periodically in the dining hall
without prior notice and to pass
on its findings and recommen
dations to dining hall officials.
The committee was appointed
by President Elder.
Students reporting Thurs. for
the evening meal decided to ac
cept their plates but to let the
food go untouched in protest over
“food preparation, cleanliness,
and attitude of dining hall per
sonnel.” As the demonstration
continued, however, a number
of students started breaking
glasses and upsetting other din
ing hall equipment.
Arriving on the scene shortly
after the demonstration began,
Dean G. T. Kyle advised the
students to “use other available'
channels” for expression of
giicvances. Ah a result, strike
leaders discontinued the de
monstration and held a series of
meetings with an administra
tive committee.
The new dining hall commit
tee will consist of six students,
three of them native North
Carolinians, and one each from
the North, West and South, and
four faculty and staff members.
Both faculty and student groups
will include food specialists.
Publications Hail
Return Of Funds
BY WALTER DAVIS
Student publication officials
began to breathe a little easier
lost week when President Al
fonso Elder announced at a din
ner party in his home that the
State Budget Bureau is restor
ing $1,200 of the $1,800 original
ly deducted from the student
activity fund.
Student Government officials
and Echo staffers were guests of
honor at the dinner.
Earlier in the year Mr. Wil
liam Jones, business manager of
the college, informed the Stu
dent Government that the Bud
get Committee had tapped the
student activity fund.for $1,800
because of an expected decline
in enrollment. This loss of funds
created financial problems for
the Campus Echo and the Eagle,
North Carolina College student
publications.
Both pcblicatin-is depend pri
marily oi.’ the funds received
from the student activity bud
get, supplemented by advertising
fees and subscriptions.
Now that two-thirds of the
amount taken by the Budget
Committee has been returned,
the students of the college will
not have to suffer the reduction
in output that student publica
tion felt would be necessary as
a result of the large reduction in
funds, officials said.
NCC Prof's Art Cracks Color Bar
By G. H. HUDSON
“Cybele,” an original sculp
ture by Art Professor Edward N.
Wilson, is now being exhibited
in the 18th North Carolina
Artists’ Annual Exhibition in the
Union Building at State College,
Raleigh.
“Cybele” is an ancient Greek
word meaning “the nourishing
mother of man, giver of the arts
of life and founder and upholder
of cities and nations.”
“CYBELE”
Mr. Wilson says that “Cybele”
represents his conception of the
universal woman and that al
though the facial features are
taken from the three ethnic
groups, the anatomy is “under
standably universal.” The NCC
art professor”s work was made
possible by a Carnegie Fellow
ship Grant.
According to the officials of
the state gallery, Wilson is the
first Negro ever to have work
accepted in the North Carolina
Exhibits. Out of 250 entries, this
work, along with six other sculp
tures and 29 paintings, were se
lected for exhibition.
Wilson comes from Balti
more, Maryland, and was grad
uated from Douglass High
there. At the University of low^,
he majored in art, specialized in
sculpture, and graduated from
the university’s undergraduate
and graduate schools, receiving
A. B. and A. M. degrees.
Wilson came here in 1951 and
1952 began working on “Cy
bele.” He has also a bust of
Carolyn Pride, former NCC stu
dent and employee at A. and T.
College, for the inaugural of A.
and T.’s new Art Gallery.
Currently, Wilson is working
on the first of a series of murals
in the Fine Arts Building, de
picting some phase of the devel
opment of the Negro.
—Typical of the hundreds of
co-eds making “Sai^a selec
tions” for family, friends and
stuf^^'int, Is
bleaux this past week is Retha*^} president of Senior Hall
Hughes, above, Fayetteville Dormitory Council.
Senior Co-eds Give Needy Kids
Early Christmas At Gala Party
Santa came early for 25 un
derprivileged boys and girls yes
terday in the Senior Women’s
Dormitory.
The children, ranging in age
from 4 to 6, were guests of the
senior women who showered
them with toys, some of them
bought and others made by the
sponsoring group.
Obviously enjoying the early
Christmas, the youngsters sang
carols, played games, and exam
ined their toys with shining
eyes. ^
Following tne festivities, the
kids were served hot chocolate
and cookies. Mrs. Hortense Mc-
Clinton, a social worker from
Durham rounded up the needy
children.
.The Senior Hall Welfare Com
mittee sponsored the Christmas
Irate Durham Man
Wrecks Caple’s Car
Durham man. Jack Mitchell,
was arrested last Friday and
charged with malicious damage
to >bn automobile which belongs
to an NCC student, Frederick
Caple.
Some time Thursday night
Mitchell rammed his truck into
the side of Caple’s 1954 Olds-
mobile, which was parked near
Chidley Hall, broke out the
window glass, punctured the
tires, disconnected wires lead
ing to the motor and damaged
the dash board. The damage
done is estimated in excess of
$1500.
According to reports, Mit-
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Beginning with the September 1956 term, NCC will officially
change from the quarter system to the semester system.
Although the change had been talked and “hanging fire” for
more than a year now, it was made official last week by Dean
G. T. Kyle in an announcement from his office. The Dean fur
ther stated in an interview with
CAMPUS ECHO reporters that
details are now being worked
out by the faculty and the col
lege’s Executive Committee.
In connection with the change,
Assistant Graduate Dean R. K.
Barksdale last week released a
report of the Committee on the
Semester System dealing with
the number of credit hours be
ing recommended for graduation
and the distribution of those
hours among the core, major
fields, minor fields, and in edu
cation and electives.
The report Is to be reviewed
by the faculty before it goes
back to the Executive Commit
tee for final action.
As now constituted, the plan
calls for 124 semester hours
credit for the A. B. degree, 56
of the hours to be earned in the
core curriculum, 30 in a major
field, 20 in a minor field, and
18 divided between education
and electives.
The reports recommends the
core hours to be distributed as
foUov/s: English, 13; ,Sciefi£§^ or
mathematics, 10; language, b;-
art, 9; music, 2; hygiene, 2;
physical education, 4; social
science, 9; and dramatic art, 2.
Dean Kyle told reporters that
he expected little dificulty in
changing from the quarter to
the semester system and said
that the hour adjustments can be
easily made. It is expected that
such adjustments can be made
without causing any students to
be delayed in his graduation
plans.
senior, shown here looking at
gift items in the Canteen.
Retha, an hoi
party. Geraldine Gatewood is
chairman of the welfare com
mittee, and Retha Hughes is
president of the dormitory coun
cil.
Durham Lass In Raleigh Concert
'Participating in Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity’s seventh an
nual musical concert, “Stars of
Tomorrow,” earlier this month
in the Crosby - Garfield School
Auditorium in Raleigh, was
North Carolina College senior
Lenoris Witherspoon.
Lenoris is a music major at
NCC and a soloist with the col
lege choir. Her voice coach is
Mrs. C. Ruth Edwards of the
NCC Music Department.
The young soprano, a native
of Durham, and a graduate of
Merrick-Moore High School in
Durham County, sang “R’cit.
and Aria-Deh vieni non tardar”
by Mozart; Rachmaninoff’s “In
the Silence of the Night”;
“Love is a Bauble” composed
by Richard Leveridge; and “O
don fatale—from “Don Carlos’'
by Verdi.
Accompaning Lenoris was
Mr. Benjamin Gray, a member
of the NCC Music Department.
Others participating in the
concert were Barbara Graham,
soprano, Virginia State College,
and Mack Statham, pianist,
Hampton Institute.
Each of the contestants re
ceived an honorarium of $15.
for his contribution to the con
cert.
According to the Phi Lambda
LENORIS WITHERSPOON
Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha,
the program is sponsored as an
endeavor to introduce to the
community outstanding talent
found in some of our colleges,
to give the public a greater ap
preciation for the type of train
ing which the various music de
partment give, and to encour
age these promising collegiate
artists.
This is the fifth year NCC
has had a representative in the
concert.