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The Colleg:iate
Art Auction
To Be Held
On Campus
In an effort to finance a joint
publication by the Department of
Art and the Department of English
at Atlantic Christian College, “Cru
cible,” an auction of art works will
be held on campus on December
10.
It is anticipated that there will
be a large variety of types of art
objects offered for sale: ceramics,
drawings, paintings and sculpture.
The work will be by Atlantic Chris
tian College students and faculty,
and by friends of the college and
the magazine, many of whom are
professional artists and former
students who have acquired corisia-
erable status since graduation.
Some 40 to 50 pieces of work will
be offered. It is anticipated that
the average sale price will be about
$10-$15, with top prices at about
$40 to $60. Minimum purchases can
be made at $5. Some of the objects
received thus far have been valued
at $150.
The sale will be conducted by a
professional acutioneer. All work of
fered for auction will be hung in
the college art gallery located in
the Classroom Building on Decem
ber 9 and may be previewed by
potential bidders. The work will
remain on display until the sale
takes place. The sale will begin at
8 pm. and end at 10:30 p.m.
The official publication date for
“Crucible” has not yet been set but
the first edition is expected to come
out about December 12-15.
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 20, 1964
Concepts Can
Replace Fact
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CPS) —
Teaching of concepts will have to
supplement the taching of facts—
for soon there will be too many
facts to learn.
This is the warning of the Univer
sity of Michigan Professor
Stanford Ericksen, director of the
Center for Research in Learning and
Teaching. Ericksen recently spoke
on educational trends in the next
20 years.
He said that “knowledge is get
ting away from us. The outpouring
of knowledge is so fast, we can’t
keep up with it.
Concepts, however, are more dur
able, he said. Once mastered, they
enable students to “abstract out of
real-life situations, relationships that
are the same he learned in the
classroom.”
To deal with the increased stress
of concepts, Ericksen noted that
there will have to be changes in
three areas of education:
—Generalized procedures will be
needed to wrestle with the increas
ing Volume of facts;
—Values will become more im
portant as mankind must decide
what it is going to do with its
teohnological power. Ericksen said
there was a need for a more pre
cise analysis of the meaning of
Value words;
—Motivation for learning must
made more genuine. More stress
will have to be placed on learning
for its own sake rather than for
other benefits it may provide.
Automation in education can be
used to promote dissent and in
dividuality, Ericksen said. But he
warned, “the path of least resist
ance seems to teach the same thing
to more and more students.”
He suggested a system for auto
mated education that would main
tain individuality.
GRINGO IS READY—The homely little creature above is the official mascot for Atlantic Christian
College’s Bulldogs. His name is “Gringo” but he claims no relation to any of “The Beatles.” How
ever his cantankerous nature typifies his eagerness to begin the upcoming basketball season. We hope
he is not the only supporter at the Wilson Recreation Center on November 28.
Local Fire Department To Cooperate
With College In Fire Inspections
By BRENT HILL
Editor
The Wilson City Fire Department
has agreed to cooperate with At
lantic Christian College in making
a quarterly inspection of the build
ings and grounds on the campus
in an effort to prevent possible fires.
The inspection had been required
under the college’s fire insurance
program with college employees be
ing allowed to make the inspection.
There were no stipulations in the
insurance program to the effect that
a fire department make the inspec
tions. However, this new cooper-
Horne Is Chosen
First Runner-up
J. K. Horne, a freshman at At
lantic Christian College, was chosen
first runner - up in the national
Grange prince contest held at At
lantic City, New Jersey during the
week of November 9. He was also
honored with the title of Priest of
Demeter which is the highest de
gree that can 'be given to a person
in the Grange. He also sang in
the North Carolina quartet in a
hootenanny held during the conven
tion.
J. K. Horne represented the en
tire Tar Heel State in the contest.
To qualify, he had to have a per
sonal interview and complete a re
port on his Grange activities. His
Grange participation includes atten
dance of national Grange sessions,
organizations of a Youth Grange in
his county, and attainment of the
title of Master in his Youth Grange.
Day Students
Plan Vnity
At a meeting of the Day Stu-
j dents on Nov. 12, Naomi Holt,
; Day Student representative, stated
that one of her main objectives is
I to unite the Day Students into an
effective group on campus. She
said that the Day Students make
up 60 per cent of the enrollement
at ACC, and that such a group
should be unified.
To assist her in the unification
Miss Holt appointed David Webb,
assistant day student representative;
Ann Bunn, secretary; and Sandra
Bunn, treasurer.
Racial Tensions
DUBLIN (CPS) — The Union of
Students of Ireland (USD has es
tablished a permanent committee to
work on easing racial tensions be
tween Irish citizens and the many
Negro and Asian foreign students in
Ireland.
The committee will have two
jobs: to investigate all reports of
attacks on colored students, espe
cially in Dublin; and to provide for
eign students in Ireland with ad
vice on accommodations and o*her
personal problems.
USI President Gordon Colleary,
of University College in Dublin, ex-
;lained that racial incidents in Irp-
land involving foreign students were
3S often due to mutual mistrust
or lack of understanding as to out-
-i«ht bigotry. The new committee
will concern itself with h^lDing for-
students “become ful^
<?rated in Irish society,” Colleary
said.
Federal Loans
(CPS) — Federally supervised
savings and loan associations may
now lend up to $10,000 to college
students or their parents to defray
educational costs, reports “Educa
tion USA.”
Repayment would be over a pe
riod of ten years or twice the length
of time spent in college, whichever
is less.
In announcing the new regulation,
Joseph McMurray, chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
noted that education has succeeded
home buying as the largest single
investment normally made in a life
time.
ation procedure has been deemed
necessary by several college admin
istrators as a result of a small
fire in Howard Chapel last week.
A meeting of several college ad
ministrators and a representative of
the Wilson Fire Department was
held last Tuesday at the request
of Miss Sarah B. Ward, dean of
women, who expressed concern
over the lack of an evacuation sys
tem in the women’s dormitories.
It was felt by those attending
the meeting that through co
operation the possibiltty of a dis
aster could be greatly reduced. Sev
eral ideas were presented by the
group and it appears that a full-
scale effort will be made to carry
out a comprehensive program. Sug
gestions include: an auxiliary alarm
system for all dormitories, the in
stitution of fire drills, an effort to
familiarize the Wilson firemen with
the layout of campus buildings, and
the appointment of team captains in
women’s dormitories to be respon
sible for carrying out the evacua
tion.
Captain Davis told The Collegiat
Tuesday that he is in the process
of compiling blueprints of the build
ings on campus and all existing
exits for the use of the local Fire
Department in order that the fire
men can acquaint themselves with
the various floorplans, thus being
better aMe to cope with a fire.
NUMBER EIGHT
Board To Look
At Possibility
Of I.D. Cards
I>t‘e Horne, president, opened Mon
day night’s meeting of the Execu
tive Board by thanking the Open
House Committee and the Board for
the fine job done with the open
house at the Co-op Building on Nov.
11. He further announced that
Stuart Imc, sophomore president;
David Marshburn, freshmen sena
tor: and Cokkie Wickham, secre
tary; had been appointed to inves
tigate the possibilities of having stu
dent identification cards.
Stuart Lee moved that the Board
underwrite for $50 a dance spon
sored by the cheerleaders which will
be held this Friday night following
the Varsity - Alumni game. The
motion passed.
Fred Barber announcwl hat he
and John Day had attended a Tu
torial Conference held at Wake For
est on Nov. 13-14. No action was
taken.
Paul Donnelly requested that the
Board investigate the heat prob
lem in the Library. He said that
many people, including himself, felt
that something should be done to
correct this problem. Kathy Tray
lor, junior senator, moved that the
proper authorities investigate the
heating problems in college facili
ties. The motion passed.
David Webb, junior president,
moved that the Board allocate funds
for the purchase of a Chi'istmas
tree for the lobby of the Classroom
Building, The motion was defeated
when it was pointe<i out that other
Christmas trees will be on campus,
and that the expense might be
saved.
Lee Horne read a letter from
Dean Bennett which expressed his
congratulations to the Board for the
successful open house at the Co
op Building, and he hoped that this
would become an annual affair.
Interview
A representative from the North
Carolina Department of Revenue will
be on campus December 3 to inter
view interested business and ac -
counting majors.
Students wishing to participate
must register with the Placement
Office in the Administration Build
ing by 5 p.m. on December 1.
SARDAMS TO PLAY—The “Sardams,” a local band, will provide
the music for the annual Pine Knot Dance this Saturday night. Miss
Pine Knot will be crowned during the intermission. Admission is
1$1.50 per couple and dress is semi-formal.
Tutor System
Recommended
WASHINGTON (CPS) — The
President of the University of Min
nesota has recommended that Amer
ican universities begin using a ver
sion of the tutorial system com
mon to British universities and said
he plans to inaugurate just such
a program on his own campus.
O. Meridith Wilson said he felt
in the long run such a program
would require no larger number of
faculty members per student than
is now required for conventional
classroom lecture courses.
The tutorial system differs from
the famDiar lecture system in that
a tutor^rofessor meets as needed
with college students and directs or
guides work — often independent
research — which the students
have 'been assigned to do.
Wilson, speaking at the annual
convention of the Association of
State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges, said a tutorial system
should begin with a department’s
faculty outlining “ a series of fun
damental problems or propositions,
the mastery of which would be con
sidered a necessary part of any
man’s program to get a degree
from that department.”
This, he said, should result in
defining eight to ten “benchmark”
problems that ought to be clearly
understood or mastered by a stu
dent if he is to be considered pro
ficient in his ma.jor.
Each student would prepare an
essay under the guidance of his tu
tor explaining each of the problems,
relying heavily on a list of books
relating to each problem.