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by Damon Hickey
The late Jack Benny once
told his television audience
about a meeting of the
American Library Association
he said was in town. They had
some good speakers, accord
ing to Benny, but every time
one of them stood up to make
a speech, all the delegates
said, "Shhh!"
No one is likely to identify
Connie Regenos, Louis Ro
mine, Rose Simon, or Damon
Hickey with that discredited
image of librarians. We are all
loud-mouth extraverts who
enjoy conversing with people
rather than trying to maintain
the silence so precious to
librarians of yore. So it comes
as something of a shock to be
asked by students to keep our
voices down so that they can
study.
There are some very good
reasons why it's not practical
anymore for librarians and
library users to try to simulate
the atmosphere of a Benedic
tine monastery. But there are
also good reasons for having
large areas where quiet can be
maintained. For one thing,
there is nowhere else on
Speaker on Angolan Crisis
to Appear in Founders
By Nashon N. Udoto
The International Relations
Club (IRC) and BASIB are
co-sponsoring a speaking on
Monday, February 23, 1976.
The speaker is Mr. Musa
Kamara. He will be speaking
on the Angolian crisis. He will
begin his address at 7:00 p.m.
in th Gallery room of
Founders Hall and his speech
plus questioning session will
not last for mow; than IVi
hours. Refreshments will be
served after the question
period.
Mr. Musa Kamara, current
ly the president of PASOA
(Pan-African Student Organi
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campus where you can be sure
of quiet for study. For
another, most people need
quiet areas adjacent to the
library materials they are
consulting in order to use
them effectively.
But the present arrange
ment of the library discou
rages the development of such
sanctuaries. Public service
people (the loudmouths men
tioned above) inhabit every
nook and cranny, from the
front desk to the reference
room and all the way through
the bookstacks to the office of
Hickey and Romine at the
back of the building.
Recently someone conceiv
ed the brilliant idea of
centralizing public services so
that the rest of the building
would be left in peace. So
within the next year or two,
the front room may get a
face-lifting, and both the
circulation and reference
operations would be moved
into it. Current periodicals arid
reserve books would move
down the hall to the big room
that now houses reference
books. There students would
be able to read and study,
zation in the Americas) works
at A&T University as the
Assistant Director of Instruc
tional Development. He is also
an assistant professor in the
Agricultural education depart
ment. Mr. Kamara is from
Sierra Leone, West Africa.
From my personal contact
with Mr. Kamara, I find him a
very informed person on
African affairs. He has been
invited by many institutions
both in and around Greens
boro to address himself on a
variety of topics about the
struggles in African countries
geared towards political and
economic independence. The
civil war in Angola happens to
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totally undisturbed by noisy
librarians.
The conversational and
typing noises now generated
by Hickey and Romine in the
bookstacks will be removed
over spring break to two small
offices (seminar rooms 2 and )
on the third floor, up the stairs
near the Quaker Room. That
will free all the study carrels in
the stacks from the grip of
noise pollution. Unfortunate
ly, it will also eliminate
seminar room 2 as a study
room. We hope, that the
liberation of three floors of
study carrels will compensate
for the loss.
Also, we now have some
areas that are quiet and
available for study when not in
use by classes; the Fine Arts
Room (with sofas, tables, and
comfortable chairs) on the
third floor, up the stairs near
the Xerox machine; and the
Curriculum Materials Center
(old reserve room), down the
stairs near the Reference
Room.
We welcome the commu
nity's reaction to our proposed
changes. We also urge you, if
you feel that someone is being
unnecessarily noisy, to ask
that person (even if I'm the
offender, which is not
unlikely) to lower his or her
voice. After alf, we grew up
being told to be quiet in the
library; so we're used to it.
International Scene: Peru and Its People
by Alii
Since 1968 Peru started a
radical change, and nobody
knows toward where yet.
Lima is quiet. Some people
have written: "Lima the
horrible". By quiet, I mean
nothing happens. 1 mean there
are changes of government
and other fusses; but not
much happens that helps the
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Women's Center Speaker
The Women's Center will
be sponsoring a talk/discus
sion with Kathy Adams, a
part-time professor in the
psychology department on
Wednesday, February 18 at
8:00 p.m. in the Gallery. She
will be speaking on "The
Unnecessary Dichotomy Be
Do monasteries fall under
the heading of "other such
institutions"? Have you notic
ed how much violence there is
in coed high schools? One
fight 1 saw in high school
comes to mind because of it's
brutality. They literally tore
tufts of hair from each other's
heads, they bit and scratched
and kicked each other's
groins. No holds were barred.
One woman's hands were
badly cut by a razorblade
ffectively hidden under the
other woman's beehive hair
do.
What about the violence of
the late sixties, the violence
which followed the sexual
revolution. What about the
ghetto riots. You can't tell me
these riots weren't related to
the frustrations of being black
and poor and almost hopeless
people. So the people lived on
without much hope -• until
1968.
Peru, by geography is
divided into three regions.
The cities are located on the
coast. The mountain ranges
run north to south. They're
the Andes. The Inca Empire
flourished there, high up,
dominating. The vast, un
February 17, 1976
tween Careers and Home
making". Currently finishing
up her PhD in experimental
psychology from the Univer
sity of Alabama, she helped
teach a course on the
psychology of women while a
graduate student. Refresh
ments will be served.
in a rich racist society. If
someone wrote the GUIL
FORDIAN claiming that
ghetto riots were simply a
manifestation of testosterone
levels and/or a lack of sexual
activity he would be rightly
ridiculed. To make that sort of
claim about the Lebanese
people is equally ridiculous.
I also believe that love is
good for the body, mind and
society. Sex also is healthy
whether you're gay, bisexual
or heterosexual. Yes I agree
that we are creatures of the
body...but we're much more
as well, we're social creatures
and we're thinking creatures.
Body, mind and society are all
interrelated and no theory that
only considers one while
ignoring the others can
explain human behavior.
David B. Freeman
known jungle lies on the East.
The Amazon River nourishes
the exotic trees (and the
mosquitoes) on its way toward
Brazil.
Peru, by class, is divided
into three sections. The
Indians live mostly in the
provinces. Lima is the biggest
thing they aspire to. They
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