RAHrSHORN
VOL. II NO. 3
SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
April 9,1976
Photography Exhibit
Censored By President
Southeastern’s Adult
Education Division has a
continuing program for
exhibiting works of art by
students and members of
the community. Dan
Sears, staff photographer
for the Whiteville News
Reporter, is one of the
persons whom the college
has chosen to honor.
Sears, when contacted,
chose thirty of his prints
that would give an overall
display of his
photographic subjects. He
now states that he would
“seriously reconsider
ever displaying any other
works at Southeastern.”
Sears’ hesitancy is
generated by a censorship
of his present display by
college president Dr.
Ronald McCarter. It was
brought to Dr. McCarter’s
attention that certain of
the Sears prints might be
offensive to some of our
students and the com
munity. Dr. McCarter
reviewed the exhibit and
decided two of the
photographs were of a
nature that might cause
personal embarrassment
to the subjects of the
photos or their families.
These two prints (see
below) were removed
from the gallery. Mr.
Sears was not involved in
the decision and only
learned of it second -
hand.
In retrospect, Sears
stated that his greatest
resentment was in being
left out of the decision to
remove the photographs.
Mr. Sears reflected
“there must be something
wrong with the ad
ministrators of the
school,” for such an
oversight.
Both photographs had
previously appeared in
the local newspaper. Dr.
McCarter stated that
while “objective repor
ting of the news may
dictate the indiscriminate
publishing of subject in all
its detail the college
gallery has no such
responsibility.” He
elaborated, saying
“selections capable of
conveying a similar art
message should be
available without the risk
of personal em
barrassment.”
Mr. Sears chose sub
jects from all aspects of
photo - journalisni and
one of these forms is on -
the - spot reporting. Sears
explained, “It is the
photographer’s job to
capture realistically the
mood of an event.
Unfortunately, all the spot
reporting I do is not
concerned with happy
occasions. I frequently
Continued on page 4
see Represents Arab Emirates
Phyllis McDaniels
SCC’s Model United
Nations ( MUN )
delegation consists of a
five-member committee;
Chairman of Delegation,
Linda McDaniels, Jessie
Jackson, Lynn
Sackleford, Rebecca
Connart, Suzanne Harris,
and Terrence Carr. Our
delegation represents the
United Arab Emirates
this year.
Each school par
ticipating in the MUN
submits a list of countries
that they could possibly
represent, depending
upon the size of their
delegation. The SCC
delegation (five mem
bers) submitted a list of 13
countries that a five
delegation committee
could represent. They all
wanted Luxembourg, but
they were assigned the
United Arab Emirates.
The MUN delegates will
leave for New York
Monday, April 12,1976, at
6:30 a.m. They are
scheduled to stay one
week. They should be
returning the following
Monday, April 19.
According to the MUN
sponsor, Mr. Brownlee,
the MUN committee “will
hammer out resolutions
word for word, bit by bit.
Tliat’s what the Model
United Nations is all
about.”
I hope New York, and
the other MUN
delegations are ready for
them.
Parking Lot Problem At SCC
By Larry Ray
Parking at S.C.C. has
created quite a problem
for many of the students,
as they have told many
teachers and ad
ministrators. Students
who have classes later in
the day often have to park
in any reasonable place
because there are no
vacancies.
One administrator said
that there were well over
100 cars that could not
park on some days. He
also stated that this
causes problems for
students leaving school
early. ^ ^
Dr. Ronald McCarter,
President of S.C.C., said
“On some days there are
50 cars too many and on
other days 50 spaces not in
use. Realizing this was a
problem, parking tickets
were not issued to the
students who had to park
in particular situations.
However it has now come
to the point that tickets
must be issued because
students are not able to
leave when they desire.
Also, the campus grounds
are being destroyed by
cars traveling on them.”
Dr. McCarter also said
that in order to aid the
problem of parking
two new parking lots will
be constructed in the near
future. He said that these
parking lots will hold
approximately 241 cars.
He, along with many
others, is hoping this will
solve the parking
problem.