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THE COLLEGIATE
PabUshed Weekly at Atlantic CSirlstian College
WlUon, N, C.
To provide the student body and faculty of this Institution
with a means ot communication and a free discussion of the
Interests of the day.
JUST A DREAM Art In T/ze Aiv
Alice Shej)ard
Dwight Wagner
Brent Hill
Jerry Elmore
Patsy Sebum
David Webb
Editor
Assistant Eydtor
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Makeup Editor
Business Manager
Reporters: Ray Fi^er, Kent Conner. John Reynolds, JerrcU Lopp.
liaura Wolfe, Lmda Griffin, Kathy Traylor, Floyxi Brown, Les
Gochvin, Julian Foscue, Glenn Griffin, Richard Siirles, Maureen
R^an and T. O. D. Johnston.
April 17, 1964
(Corrupt Elections
TTio wind.s of March have blown the spring elections past
our institution of higher learning and many candidates have been
ek-cted to respective posts while many students suffered defeat
in thi-se competitive races.
Some of the leaders who were recently elected by the student
body, faculty and administrators have already shown in their
present rok-s that they are presumably capable of being leaders.
However ,to some posts, some students whose capabilities are
doubtful were elected. Some of the students which you, the Co
operative Association, elected do not even have a “C” average
and .si>vcral are on academic probation.
You may ask, "How did this happen?”. This tocJc place be
cause tht spring elections at ACC have become a popularity race
with the more qualified students suffering defeat. The blame lies
on the Co-op Association. Because of the lack of interest in the
nominations, the student’s name that one has most often heard
rfjH-aied or the stu<lent with his name in first position on the
ballot ri'ccived the most votes.
'I'o the newly eli.-cted leaders, a challenge is presented to you
to prove vour ability. When you leave office, be able to name
wh;it you hav accomplished, not what you have seen accomplished.
You ni>w have exactly one year to perform your feats. MAYBE
YOU CAN EVEN INTRODUCE SOME REFORMS INTO THE
FUTUJiE EL1'X:TI0NS PRCXiRAM!—ALS
Russian Leadership
1*1 ::t Monday there was a news bulletin that Russian Premier
Khrushchev was dead. Soon thereafter, however, there were other
reports revt aling that the report was false. During the hour be
tween the first report and the clarifying report, many questions
suddenly became quite relevant. WIk) would be Russia’s new
leader? Woidd he follow Khrushchev’s policies or would he share
the tjJiilosophies of the Red Chinese? Just what would result
from such a sudden transition of p>ower in the conununist world?
Certainly, Khrushchev cannot be considered our friend, yet he
is not necessarily our worst enemy. Tliis is becoming more evi
dent yach day as the Chinese Reds grow more vitriolic toward
the Russians. At the present time the Russians appear to be
heading to unprecedented heights of understanding with the West.
There is a great ideological conflict in the communist world
today, and the West stands as most likely to gain from this con
flict. This is true, however, only if Khrushchev remains in power
in the Soviet Union and continues to denounce the militant atti
tudes of the Chinese Reds.
Socm after he heard the false report of Khrushchev’s being
dead, the writer heard a man saying that it was the best thing
ttiat could have happened for the United States. Was this man
right? Certainly the world would be a better place if there were
no communists at all; but wouldn’t Khrushchev be a little better
than another Mao?—AGG
Machine Politics
Has the foundation of a pwlitical machine been established at
Atlantic Christian College?
TTiere seems to be a small, but influential group on campus
who are determined to get all their “buddies” elected to office
in order that certain pet jxilicies, namely agreeable to this group,
may be acted upon on campus. This little cliche cares not wheth
er they break regulations as long as they achieve their aims,
■niese are the students who state that we do not have an effective
Co-operative Association on campus, so they want it abolished.
This overthrow of the Co-op is only one among the many radical
plans proposed by this group.
One has to acknowledge that the governing body and tlie con
stitution at this institution lacks much; however, do you, the stu
dents, want to replace the Co-op with a campus politioal ma
chine? If so, jump on the bandwagon, because all volunteers are
welcome.
The remainder of the student body who wishes no machine
needs to band together to fight this movement which is taking
place in the Co-operative Association. Put up a struggle for the
leading positions on campus.
Tlie elections have passed for this year, but in one year, each
of you will have the opportunity to decide whether you want a
political machine on campus.—ALS
Keniarks Helped
On Wednesday night, April 8, students residing in Hackney
Hall were summoned to the lobby for the purpose of hearing
some rather terse statements from Dean Robert Bennett concern
ing the immature behavior of several men in the dormitory.
Incidents which necessitated this meeting included numerous
water fight<!, an alarming regularity of exploding firecrackers,
the crashing of eight-ounce bottles through windows of neighbor
ing houses, an oversurplus of bottles in private yards, and a dis-
sting amount of vulgar utterances to passing coeds.
Some of these incidents would be extieme joy for a six-year-old
hild playing cops and robbers, but are juvenile vandalisms for
persons responsible enough to be in college.
$• Following Dean Bennett’s remarks the Dormitory Council met
.pnd eight Hackney men were placed on disciplinary probation for
texcessive noise. Six of these were also charged with a lack of
consideration for fellow residents.—BH
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By T.O.D. JOHNSTON
This way. Watch mud. Step. Been
raining almost all. Foggy haze.
Sun down. That path. Smush-mud.
On hill. Field there—weeds, long,
slender. Ploughed near house.
Crunches. Large puddle — on, up
hill. Curmsh. Battered old green
truck by door. No answer. Lights
not on. TV inside. Open door, porch.
Enclosed shack. Wood. Old stove.
Coming — padding softly — steps
within. Opened — shadows. Partly
bald gray-haired black man in flan-
enl sliirt. Mumbled. My nwuth and
tongue form words — explanation
in descriptions. Head nods — wrink
led skin. Gravely deep voice —
talks. Can’t come back tomorrow.
Talks with his words — mumbled
sound. Come back some other time.
Nods. Weathered hands close door
behind. Shadowed darkness, smush;
walking heavily, crunches, down
mud - slippery path, currmsh; haze
of twilight. Rain-sopped soil, drip
ping and seeping. Maybe won’t to
morrow — maj'be tomorrow.
TEN TOUCHY TOPICS
1. A1 Lowenstein
2. Grass mowing during classes
3. Ladder against Chapel (2
months).
4. Executive Board Meetings
5. Men’s Dorm Council and So
cial Pro-.
6 Telephones in Girl’s Dorm
7. Class bells
8. 75 per cent, weather and heat
in the library stacks.
9. “The Collegiate”
10. Too many “Touchy Topics”
LONELY LITTLE LOSERS
1. Ad. Bldg. coffee breaks
2. Cactus plant
3. Professors holding class past
time allotted
4. Albert Finney
5. All A. C. C. spring sports and
the weather
Readers’ Forum
To; "nie Collegiate
From: The Library
Beginning Monday, April 6, 1964
the library is now open until 10:00
p.m. Monday through ITiursday and
until 4 :00 p.m. on Saturday for the
remaining class and examination
days of the ^ring semester.
by T. O. D. JOHNSTON
To the Ekiitor, the Students,
and the Faculty:
Some of them are dead. Bishop
Edwin A. Penidt is dead. Elenaor
Roo^velt is dead, Senator Robert
A. Taft is dead. Robert Frost is
dead. Dr. Archibald Henderson is
dead. Senator Estes Kefauver is
dead.
Some of them will live. Adlai E.
Stevenson is Ambassador to the
United Nations. Clifton L Moore
is a Justice of the State Supreme
Court. Carl Sandburg is a prolific
author and poet at Flat Rock. Dr.
George A. Buttrick is Professor of
Preaching at Garrett. Bennett Cerf
is President of Random House. Rob
ert F. Kennedy is Attorney General
of the United States.
Each of them spoke at Chapel
Hill when I was a student there.
I heard them. Those memories are
priceless. I covet similar memories
for you. Why?
Maybe we should await history’s
judgment of these people. But I
believe that the life of at least one
of them will have such impact that,
as Hotoies said, “a hundred years
after he is dead and forgotten,
men who never heard of him wiU
be movmg to the measure of his
thought. .
To be educated, you must do more
than merely read about them' You
must see and hear some of them.
Justice Moore will ^ak here
April 23.
You should hear him.
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fw-spaic-tjT^ textu form-a-line colour. Spontaneus genisis
emotfo-expris ides autor-yet subsy-mat-raw build: owal, wetter,
terete cley. stane, trez; purpo-abil-skil inbetwn; continuous wh^
think-thmnped hair-stik, pale-nive, vasclot. Wurk-standin 2-feat«i- I
contempt impotent? nup-stare archi ntm emmytution; startingj
Durrseve relm pure-form by-yond outy manyfestion.
Stiles in flux, Antig, Mid, Renass, Murdura-Prehis Stanes, Bron,
i,-n- Bablon, Assem, Perzn, Egift, Grik istic, ieral-Christly, d,.'
CaAilingin, Romin, Goetik, Renass-Mammerisem, Barococo. Neau!
Ssicism Imy-pression, Dadia, Mom Surreal, Ey-pression, Cube-a-straj
tion Neau-futurums, un Abstruct-chums. Notso propinq to wurk -
standing infrunt of staim, gratr fealr.
Farms Conseptual in relm of Imagi-soulminder-suisualy wuhk^
aht Skult an archi - 3 dimens; Panting and drewin — 2 dimem'
Newsick an potree dimes in time. Awlubum-monatter-crei^tif watk
indefenabl, Joy ce. Artisensitivist-pensun-dremes nia univars-written -
univirsalty undure oil-ta-airtz ases manyfestions ofe meverage hewma®
eggisistens, Yrss.
News And Views
BY DWIGHT WAGNEK
Last week in Mississippi, the State Senate passed a bill with tie
bare-faced intention of keeping itself, and any other elected officials
aU Democratic. It seems that the Republicans brought on this action
when they scored the largest vote since Reconstruction, nearly 40
cent, against Gov. Paul Johnson last November.
■nie total effect will make it necessary to have a well-financed
statewide apparatus even to qualify as a legal party, a cun’ent im
possibility for Republicans, whose means are limited and whose voters
are concentrated in a few urban areas.
It is hard to believe that the men who compose the state legisla-
ture of Mississippi could be so naive and foolish as to pass a bill sud
as this one. Undoubtedly, everyone of these men would claim to sup
port the principals of democracy to thei rutmost ability. However, by
passing this bill, they are in effect hitting democracy with a mailed fist,
The most serious injustice would be the impossibility of the citizens of
Mississippi to have a clear choice in the democratic principals they wish
to have tlie state government follow.
The implications of this bill also extend into other facets of state
government and livelihood. If does not take much to realize that the
growth of the two-party system in the South is very important for con
tinued development. If offers a healthy and invigorating atmosphere
to many commercial and industrial businesses. For the most part, (iie
two-party system is developing in the South, but a bill such as this
one is hardly encouraging.
The outlook for this bill is almost certain to be death in the Supreme
Court, but even so, many people are going to continue to wonder about
the sort of men who control the state of Mississippi and the Deep SouHi.
from the eye of the fly
BY JOHN REYNOLDS
Yes, Dr. L. Stacy Weaver, w'e all understand:
—that the college freshman has a choice of eitiier motivating himself
to “make his maximum contribution to his day and generation” or
following the “great horde of beer-bloated sex-seekers who swarm over
the Florida beaches dvuring Spring Vacation masquerading as college
men and women.” So states the recently innaugurated' president of
Methodist CoUege in Fayetteville.
—<and that from a uniformly magnificent high school preparatory pro
gram we will all be of the maturational level you suggest and shall
avow ourselves to turn to the work ahead and devote our full energies
to the ideals promoted by the “News and Observer” which seems to
be the primary source of your information concerning these Sprin?
orgies.
—that due to your ten years of “police” experience "as superintendent
of Durham City Schools, your unprejudiced appraisal of coUegiate mo
rality is quite justified — and I mean that seriously! But, sir, it seeiM
to me that you are superfluously idealistic in your regard of wtat to
expect of the incoming freshman. No “testing program” will tell a
dean of admissions whether or not an applicant is part of the “tfotl
and foam and effervescence of a too-affluent society.”
and, finally, that if you disregarded the newspapers and once agaii
took to the field (ie.-beach), you might renew your faith in the individ
uality involved in the “higher’ ’or “lower” process of general educa-
ton- These men and women create no pretense in a “masquerade.’
ey are college students who deserve, I tbink, more respect and con*
^deration than a bad story in the papers or blatant, condemnatio(a frota
me “man who turned a cotton field into a college-” Immorality on the
Korida strand or at the Grand Bahama Hotel is vastly exaggerated,
^e annual “rites of Spring” are a welcome and deserved interim in
the mad world of college.
^
The fly recently flitted toward an ejdiibition of the most recent fad
among your winged friends, the robbins. ’Twas noticed among
craggy branches of a campus Chinaberry tree that a flock of re*
rea^d ladies and gents were seemingly overexuberant at the prosP«®
, aberry Tea Party. A closer inspection revealed not a walley
pike but approximately forty-three highly crocked robins. Further »■
quuries showed that at this time of the year the Chinaberry has fff'
ented to a very nice vintage of “Chinaberry Tea.” The
fr., however, that within the skin of this fruit may
a narcotic which affects their central nervous system. ,
toUo-wed by a dose of “tea” might make ®
&r enemy seem one’s closest friend. Imagine, then, how ^
bird I “ ^ight envision the campus pussy cat- My word!
^ to-depend, however, upon the formation of
Carnpus Flop House for Feathered Fops- This would en^le those ;
case n.io-K+footage or wingage as
to^ Fd I’ve spotted a most amus*^;
tree ^ that Dean Hensley doesn’t take
■ try to make Chinaberry Cola. “HeUo, Mr. Toa . . ■