The Colleciate
VOL. XXVIII
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 20, 1958
NUMBER NINE
Has Executive Board Flopped?
By JIM BISHOP
An increasing current of unorgan
ized comment is running through
the Atlantic Christian College
campus. Its rising tone calls for
a complete re-shuffling of the
membership of the Executive
Board of the Student Cooperative
Association in an attempt to im
prove the agency.
The extreme charge is that the
Executive Board is dying and that
it needs different representation in
order to carry out its prescribed
duties.
In recent conversations with
campus leaders, David Blackwood,
President of the Student Coopera
tive Association, has pointed out
that much of the problem is that
the representatives on the Execu
tive Board have no real consti
tuencies to exert pressure on them
and, thereby bring more problems
to the table for mediation.
He pointed specifically to class
presidents who serve on the Execu
tive Board. Blackwood said their
groups are not organized and,
therefore, do not really command
the type of representation that they
now possess on the board.
His statement has been borne out
recently with the lack of enthusi
asm displayed at class meetings.
Last week a scheduled meeting of
the senior class turned out only
a small perc€ntage of the total
membership of the class.
PeeUng among student leaders
recently seems to indicate that
they would like to abolish class
representation on the Executive
Board and turn that representation
over to organized groups on the
carnpus such as fraternities and so-
roritieis. At the present time the
president of the Pan-Hellenic Coun
cil does not serve on the board.
Many think he should give repre
sentation to the most organized
groups on the campus—the Greek
letter organizations.
In a statement released for The
Collegiate, Dr. R. B. Cutlip, Dean
of the college, agreed with Black
wood and the others who are • de
manding representation for the
Greek letter groups. “The fraterni
ties and soroities are the closest
knit organizations on the campus,”
Dr. Cutlip said. “I believe their
representation on the Executive
Board would add value.”
In another statement, Dr. Mil
dred Hartsock, a member of the
Executive Board, said: “You are
putting the cart before the horse
to worry about revision. A study
of the present situation should be
made. A chasm exists between the
Board and the students. There
should be more student interest in
their own governmental problems.
The Cooperative Association could
use assembly periods to a better
advantage to increase student in
terest.”
Dr. Hartsock went further to say
that a large committee should be
appointed, first to arouse student
interest, and secondly to study the
possibility of the revision of the
board.
Robert O. Morrow, Dean of Men
at the college and a member of
the Executive Board, agrees that
the board has problems. He thinks
the answer is not in changing the
representation but rather in at
tempting to pump new life into the
classes to make them stronger so
that they will exert more pressure.
He agreed, however, that the fra
ternities and sororities should have
direct representation on the Execu
tive Board from the Pan-Hellenic
Coiuncil.
Miss Sarah Bain Ward, Dean of
Women of the coUege and a mem
ber of the board, said; “The name
Student Cooperative Association is
a misnomer. It is a cooperative
association for both students and
faculty, and, therefore, it should
exert campus-wide government.”
She believes there is too much
apathy and there should be more
support.
Moving outside Executive Board
membership, The Collegiate ap
proached two administrative and
faculty officials who work with the
publication and, therefore, indirect
ly with the executive board. In a
joint statement, Lee J. Howard,
adviser to The Collegiate, and
James E. Fulghum, Chairman of
the campus Publications Commit
tee, agreed that something is
wrong with the Executive Board.
Mr. Fulghum said; “Very seldom
is there a groundswell movement
that is born out of disorganized ac
tion. More clearly any action has
to come from an organized back
ground. I believe that leaders on
the Executive Board should do
more planning, should study more
problems, and should take more
action within the realm of the
board’s responsibility.”
Mr. Howard said; “I believe that
the Executive Board should have
more organized discussion within
its own body, and should take ad
vantage of its assembly programs
to present organized discussion
that I am sure would increase stu
dent interest.”
Tommy WiUis, President of the
Men’s Dormitory Council and a
member of the Executive Board,
said; “I believe part of our prob
lem can be laid at our own door
steps. Very little has been brought
up before the board this year by
any of the members. We are sup
posed to provide leadership and
we haven’t done it this year. We
need to do some studying and get
something up for discussion. This,
I Ijelieve, is our main problem.”
Limited Rushing
For the first time in the history
of Atlantic Christian College, a
spring “rush” program has been
formulated.
The program, worked out by a
committee of the Pan Hellemic
Council, calls for limited bidding
by the various fraternities and so
rorities.
The committee, which consisted
of Joe Bennett, President of the
Pan-Hellenic Council, Sallie Joe
Griffin, Ijbby Griffin, Connie Stott,
Carl Weaver and Art Bishop, met
with Dr. Cutlip, Dean of the Col
lege, in an effort to provide a
plan which would be beneficial to
the smaller “Greek” letter organi
zations.
The committee decided to allot
bids to the fraternities and sorori
ties based upon present member
ship.
Sigma Tau Chi sorority, because
of a very large present member
ship, requested that they be allot
ted no bids. Phi Sigma Tau Sorori
ty was allowed to send five bids.
Delta Sigma and Omega Chi, be
cause of their smaller member
ships, were each allotted ten bids.
Phi Kappa Alpha Fraternity and
Sigma Rho Phi Fraternity, being
the larger fraternities on campus,
were each allowed to give bids to
five men. In an effort to increase
the memberships of Sigma Alpha
and Phi Delta Gamma Fraterni
ties they were allotted ten bids
apiece.
This spring rushing program be
gan on February 13 and will be
in effect until March 1. On March
1 each fraternity and sorority will
present a list of accepted pledges
to the Dean of the CoUege.This
list in no case is to exceed their
allotted bids.
This rushing system wiU be a
“quiet” program with no formal
visitation schedule to the various
Greek letter groups’ homes plan-
ned.
Persons seeking affiliation with
the different fraternities and sor^
ities should contact the one of their
interest and make known their in
tentions.
Women seeking affiliations with
a sorority will most likely be in
itiated following a limited pledge
period.
Religious Emphasis Week Begins
On C ampus Monday M arch Third T
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1,010 Students
Enrolled At ACC
Atlantic Christian College’s
present enrollment is the larg
est in the history of the col-
ege.
Mrs. Bethany R. Joyner, Col
lege Registrar, announced last
week that the college had en
rolled 1,010 students for the sec
ond semester. It is the first
time that the college enrollment
has ever reached 1,000.
Last semester the college had
967 students. The top enrollment
last year was 852 students for
the FaU Semester.
By JOANNE RIVENBARK
Collegiate Co-editor
A new feature of the 1958 Re
ligious Emphasis Week will be dis
cussion groups at the three dormi
tories and all of the fraternity and
sorority houses. The Student Chris
tian Association has scheduled Re
ligious Emphasis Week for the At
lantic Christian College Campus
March 3-7.
Barton Hunter, main .sp< aker for
the week, will speak in chapel ev
ery day during RE Week. Mr. Hmi-
ter is executive secretary of the
Department of Social Welfare of
The United Christian Missionary
Society.
Mr. Hunter has been in demand
as a speaker and counselor for
Religious Emphasis Week activities
in colleges and universities
throughout the country. He has
written articles for publications,
study guides, devotional magazines
and other religious periodicals.
A native of Birmingham, Ala
bama, Mr. Hunter attended But
ler University, Indianapolis, and
was graduated with the A. B. de
gree from Indiana University at
Bloomington. He also received the
Master’s degree and the Bachelor
BARTON HUNTER
of Divinity degree at the Universi
ty of Chicago.
Discussion groups will be held
each evening from seven o’clock
until 8:30 o’clock. On Monday night
groups, which are co-educational
will meet at Harper Hall with Mir
iam Hollis leading the discussion.
CaldweU Hall will have as its dis
cussion leader the same night Neil
Lindley. At the same time David
Alexandej’ will lead Phi Kappa Al
pha in its discussion. Discussions
in the evening will center around
the topic of Mr. Hunter’s morning
talk.
On Tuesday niglit Sigma Alpha,
Sigma Rho Phi, and Phi Delta
will have as their guests speakers,
David Alexander, Miriam Hollis,
and Neil Lindley, respectively.
On Wednesday night discussion
groups will be held at Phi Sigma
Tau, Nash House, Phi Kappa Al
pha, and Caldwell Hall. Speakers
for this evening will include Gloria
Blanton, Griffith Hamlin, Douglas
Bell, and Burkette Raper, respec-
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Musical Slated
On March 13,14
Down in the Valley, with music
by Kurt Weill and Libretto by Arn
old Sungaadel, will be presented
on March 13 and 14 in Howard
Chapel. This musical, which has
been performed by many colleges,
displays a Southern theme with
folk music of the South.
The cast is as foUows: Jennie,
Frances Herring and Anne Nelson;
Brack, Robert Toler and George
Bullock; Bouche, Gerald Souther
land; Leader, Bob Collins and
James Mitchell; Father, Clay Phil
lips and S. D. ’ Bundy; Guard,
James Moskas and Carl Metts;
Peters, Bartel Fraendorfer; Wom
en, Gwen Stanley, Mary Alice
Howard, Anne Jenkins and Mary
Lou Bryan; Dancers, Carl Meets,
Bobby Swinson, Robert Gray, Ed
die Baroody, Tenya Bissette, and
members of the chorus. There are
two casts for a part of the roles
and the bill will be split, one cast
performing one night and the oth
er the next.
Rehearsals are being held on
Monday and Thursday evenings
with Mrs. Holsworth, Mr. Cobb
and Mr. Barnes working in their
Proof that Atlantic Christian Col
lege students are improving aca
demically and that more of them
are putting more time to study
than ever before was brought forth
this week when the Dean’s list
was announced.
Dr. Cutlip announced that 83 stu
dents had made the list. In order
to make the list a student must
have a grade average of 2.2 or
better and must have a load of
at least 12 semester hours.
It was the largest group ever to
make the list at the college. Last
Vear only 42 students made the
Dean’s list for the spring semester.
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Social Calendar
February 18—William-Mary, away
February 20 —Pheiffer, away
February 20—Phi Sigma Tau Tal-
ent Show in Chapel
February 22—East Carolina, away
February 26-March 1—^North State
Toum^ent at Lexington
March 3-7 — Religious Emphasis
Week
83 ACC Students Named
To Fall Term Dean’s List
Twenty-one of the students mak
ing the list were seniors. Twenty
were juniors, 13 were sophomores,
26 were freshmen, and three were
students in the Evening College.
Dr. Cutlip said he believes the
clear-cut academic probation rul£
now in effect, has improved the
academic quality of the work be
ing done by students. He credited
this with increasing the number of
students making the Ust.
Students on the Dean’s list are
Robert Lee Abbott, George W. An
derson, Priscilla Ballance,
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ACC-ECC Game Saturday Night;
Loop Tournament Set Next Week
The Atlantic Christian College
basketball team, beset all season
with emergencies of one kind or
another, wiU be fighting an uphill
battle Saturday night when it goes
to GreenvDle to meet East Caro
lina CoUege in the final basketball
game of the regular season.
ACC wiU be striving to redeem
itself for a loss at the hands of
Coach Howard Porter’s Pirates
earlier in the month at Rocky
Mount.
The Bulldogs also wiU be fight
ing for a fifth place finish in the
tight North State Conference cage
race. The game Saturday ight
might well be the moment of de
cision for both teams as they wind
up the season’s warfare.
A large delegation of campus
and local fans is expected to be on
hand for this colorful chapter in a
historic rivalry.
The Bulldogs will then have a
few days of rest before moving on
to the North State Conference
Tournament which will begin next
Wednesday night in Lexington.
A few uneasy moments will be
spent Sunday, however, when
Coach Jack McComas goes to
Greensboro to pull ACC’s tourna
ment pairing out of the hat. That
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Phi Delta Gamma
0 Go National
Phi Delta Gamma Fraternity,
the only men’s Greek letter organ
ization on the campus that had not
made pla^s to become affiliated
with a national fraternity, announc
ed this week that it planned to take
the steps for nationalization.
The announcement was made by
Carl Weaver, president of the frat.
Weaver said the decision to go
national was made following a
meeting of the fraternity with some
of its alumni.
He said no date has been set
for the move and that the frat has
not made a decision as to which
national fraternity it will join.
Weaver said indirectly that some
action may be taken during the
next school year concerning a date.
He said at the present time that
the officials of the frat are con
ferring with several national fra
ternities to seek answers to many
questions concerning affiliation.
The action by Phi Delta Gamma
ends the speculation 'recently on
the future role of Phi Delt in the
campus fraternity picture. All
three other frats on the campus
are planning national affiliation
this spring.
Phi Kappa Alpha Fraternity has
scheduled its induction into Delta
Sigma Phi National Fraternity on
the weekend of March 15, and 16.
Plans for this ceremony were an
nounced this week by Joe Bennett,
Phi Kappa president.
Gore And Jones
In FT A Contest
At the February meeting of the
Future Teachers, Martha Jones
and Abner Gore were selected as
Miss and Mr. Future Teacher of
America, respectively, to repre
sent Atlantic Christian College at
the State meeting of the Future
Teachers of America. 'This meet
ing is to be field in Asheville,
March 22 and 23. A large number
of other members will also repre
sent the local chaper, reported
Joyce Harrison, president.
Janet Powell was selected to run
as State Secretary of the Future
Teachers of America. State offi-
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Prexy Nominees
To Be Selected
David Blackwood, President
of the Student Cooperative As
sociation, announced today that
nominations for candidates for
the office of president of the as
sociation will be made next
week.
The nominations are made by
the Executive Board according
to a prescribed set of standards.
One of the standards is that
the candidates must have a 1.5
grade average. The candidates
also must be members of the
Junior Class.