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Mrs. Alice Barlowe and Miss Sharon Pope (left to ri£:ht) han^r the
list of charter members of the newly formed WCC chapter of the
American Chemical Society.
Chemical Society
Receives Charter
On Wednesday, March 22, the
Wilkes Community College
Chapter of the American Chem
ical Society met in Charlotte to
receive the charter member
ship. At the monthly dinner
meeting, Mr. Blair Drum pre
sented the charter membership
to the acting President, Darrell
DuVall.
The evening began with a
social hour and was followed by
dinner and a business meeting.
Speaker for the occasion was
Dr. Samuel Massie of the U. S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Dr. Massie’s topic was "Man,
Molecules and the Mind,” an
interesting lecture on drugs and
their chemical effects.
A group of 17 students, rep
resenting the charter member
ship of 28 students, was accom
panied by its advisors and spon
sors, lylrs. E. Q. Proffitt, Mr.
Dean Simpson and I^. Richard
Medcalf.
REVIEW
By Belinda Bumgarner
David Alvarez has to be one
of the most talented people at
W. C. C. — maybe in the whole
county of Wilkes. Actually, he
is one of the most talented
people one could ever know. He
could go places — Miller’s
Creek. Boomer, or any place he
wanted. He is singer and com
poser of sensitive songs of love
life which are gentle to the
ear.
“Sunrise,” a progsam of Da
vid’s music along with per-
formAnces of other talented
people was presented last
month. It was an enchanting
hour highlighted by a little
banjo and guitar picking from
Bobby Reavis and Buck Deal, a
jam session with Don Story,
Clyde Ferguson, and David Al
varez, and a ballet number and
song by Greg Caldwell, accom
panied by Phil Edwards. Harry
Mayes has a pleasing person
ality. It all added up to, de
spite some minor deficiencies,
a delightful program of original
music and talent.
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Have You Seen
The Posters?
In rushing through our hectic
college schedules, it is some
times refreshing to stop for a
few minutes and ponder a lofty
throught. Maybe it is with this
idea in mind that our counu-
selor, Mrs. Barbara Bargothi,
decided to embark upon the
project of decorating our buUe-
tih boards with posters. For
each of these posters depicts
such a thought given to human
ity by some contemporary per
sonality. Quotations from such
notable thinkers as John F.
Kennedy, Martin Luther King,
Jr., and -Janis Joplin have
dressed some of the more than
thirty posters that Mrs. Bargo
thi has displayed. Using a dif
ferent unifying theme each
week, she has exhibited posters
on such topics as “freedom,”
“being human,” and “individ
ualism.” And in the coming
weeks, Mrs. Bargothi says the
themes will be “ecology,”
“patriotism,” and ‘.brother
hood,” ... all very timely sub
jects today.
ilf you have liked these
posters, Mrs. Bargothi adds
that they can be ordered from
Chicago through Warm World,
the Argus Communications
Catalogue. So if any of them
turns you on, please order
them; don’t steal them as some
body has been doing !! If you
think it’s O. K. to steal, maybe
you should ponder Janis Jop
lin’s words . . . “Don’t com
promise yourself, it’s all you’ve
got.”
Registration
Held Here
Voter registration was held
in Thompson Hall here at
W.C.C. on Friday, March 17.
The Wilkes County registrar,
Mrs. Audrey Goodman, regis
tered nearly a hundred voters.
The Cougar Cry staff wishes to
express its gratitude to Mrs.
Goodman for holding the reg
istration here at the college.
Canton, N.Y. (I.P.) —' Amid
the process of registering the
young voters who will be elig
ible to cast their first ballots in
the national election this year,
many election officials are pon
dering the question of where to
register college students.
At least 17 states are allow
ing students to vote in the
towns in which they attend col
lege. Several others appear to
be on the brink of taking the
same route.
In New York State tiie law is
quite clear. The 1971 election
law declares that “for the pur
pose of registering and voting
no person shall be deemed to
have gained or lost a residence
by reason of his presence or ab
sence while a student of any in
stitution of learning.” Election
laws in several states contain
such a phrase.
Census studies count college
students as residents of the
community where they attend
college. The 1970 census study
shows that the Village of Can
ton has a population of 6,398 in
cluding 2,070 St. Lawrence Uni
versity students.
Some 65 percent of the stu
dents here are residents of New
York State and a sampling of a
few of them shows divergent
views on the subject. Anthony
C. Polvino, a junior, says that
several points militate against
“dormitory registration.”
“An inordinate amount of
power would be placed in the
hands of the students in a situ
ation in which most of them
could not handle the franchise
intelligently and in an atmos
phere of increased antagonism
between students and the more
permanent residents,” he says.
Associate Dean Robert N.
Wells, agrees. “It would take
just one election to create lo
cal opposition if the student
vote was pivotal,” says the
dean.
John F. Adsit, president of
the student body, thinks that
students definitely should be
able to vote locally in sena
torial and presidential elec
tions. “Absentee ballots are
Retm Cc
INFERNO
Sitting there on overturned
apple crates
Watching J. the B. and Moses
on roller skates
I saw Moses head for the hills
in a mad dash
Chased by a wild-eyed guy with
a funny mustache.
“What’s he doing here?”I asked
(deciding not to be Prudent).
J. C. looked at me and said,
“He’s an exchange student.”
I looked at him and said, “I’d
like to go to Hell today.”
He said, “That’s fine. I was
planning on putting you there
anyway.”
So down the path of good in
ventions I trod
Wondering if middle-of-the-
right urges were sent by CJod.
I walked for a very long time
Then I saw a blinking sign
Under which was a strange
sight
A guy that was black all over
Except that his face was white.
I asked him why he was like
that (hoping not to start a
fuss).
He said, “WeU, there’s a littie
too much fuss and bother —'
they only complicate the voting
process,” he says. Christopher
Young, editor of the student
newspaper, wonders if absentee
balloting could be legally deem
ed as breach of due process.
Wendy Mason, a junior, op
poses college student being al
lowed to vote in their college
communities. “For the most
I)art, the college student finds
commimity influence the great
est at home. Also, many stu
dents are from out of state.
This presents a problem in the
knowledge they would have
concerning, say, a transporta
tion bond issue or a state in
come tax,” she says.
She does feel that student
opinions should be considered
in the college community and
suggests the possibility of a
student advisor to the regularly
elected town board.
In some parts of the country
local election officials have
recognized married students as
“emancipated” from their orig
inal homes and have registered
them. John A. Feist, a sopho
more from New York City, ob
jects to this. “To deny single
students the vote at college
while giving it to married ones
is an absurdity,” he comments.
honk in the best of us.”
I asked if I could get ih Hell
that day.
He pointed to a sign and told
me to go away.
The sign plainly read: NO
VACANCY.
I said, “I can’t believe this is on
the level.”
I’ve spent all my life trying to
get here.
Let me speak to the devil.”
He began to laugh. “That’s who
you’ve been talking to.”
They’ve put me out without
even a box of matches.”
“Who?” I asked, hopiny for
clarity.
“Why,” he said, “the convention
for the John Birch Society.”
So strange and mystifying
It is to be alone
You were
The center
And now the center
Has exploded
And the outside rim
Which was me
Has been shattered like glass
By your explosion
And when the dust settles
The center is no more.
Maybe I knew
This time was coming
Maybe that’s why I cried
At night
When hidden by others
In the darkness
Maybe that’s why I laughed
So hard at something
Not funny.
Maybe that’s why
I tried so hard
To please
And maybe that’s why
I’m alone now.
Ouch!
The editor of a newspaper
caught a typographical error
that could have led him into
Dante’s Inferno. The story
read that the board of trus
tees of the town had resign
ed in a body “because their
cuties had been taken over
by the County School Board.’*
Good Reason
The defendant acknow
ledged that he hadn’t spoken
to his wife in five years and
the judge put in a question.
“What reason have you?”
he asked severely.
Replied the husband, “I
didn’t want to interrupt her.’’
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