PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Tlie Collegiate
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, DECEMBER 1 1,1964
NUMBER TEN
Motion Is Adopted on Cafeteria
JSeiv Revision
Of Constitution
Is Near Debate
Richard Surles announced at last
Monday’s Executive Board meeting
that a rough draft of the new
revised Constitution and By-Laws
will probably be ready for dis
tribution to the Board at next Mon
day’s meeting.
Surles is chairman of the Consti
tution and By-Laws Committee
which also includes Lee Horne,
Cookie Wickham, Dwight Wagner,
Stuart Lee, Hubert Burden, and
Robert E. Bennett, dean of students.
The draft is being made available
so that Board members may study
it over the Christmas holidays. This
will prepare them for the discus
sions of the proposed constitution
which are expected to be expand
ed over several regular Board
meetings.
With a Board of Trustees meet
ing scheduled for February 24, to
be considered for approval by this
body the revised constitution must
be approved by the Executive
Board and the Cooperative Associa
tion as a whole before that date.
It is expected that the by-1 a w s |
will be much more extensive and
detailed than those presently in
force. It is certain there will be
much discussion concerning the pro
posed constitution and by-laws when
they are presented to the Coopera
tive Association.
STEAKS REJECTED—Some 50 Atlantic Chris.tian College students dumped “hickory smoked hamburg
er steaks” on a cafeteria table (above) last Thursday night in an effort to demonstrate their dissatis
faction with the general food service in the ACC caf eteria. Later 200 students gathered in front of the
cafeteria staging an hour-long protest over cafeteria conditions.
Supremes’^ Motion Is Passed
Student Meet
Adopts New
G}nstitution
1^6 adoption of a new constitu
tion and the passage of a “bus
discounts” resolution were the prin
cipal orders of business during the
administrative plenary of the NSA
Carolinas-Virginia Regional Confer
ence held hast weekend at Wom
an’s CoV.ege, Duke University.
Thd regional executive officers had
beeii mandated at last spring’s as
sembly to present a new constitu
tion to the fall conference for
adoption.
An attempt by the N. C. State
delegation to amend the preamble
of the constitution failed by an
overwhelming majority. The amend-
m e n t would have deleted the
words “and CJod” from the phrase,
“to foster the recognition of the
rights and responsibilities of students
te theschool , the community, hu
manity and God.”
Terry Lauder, regional chairman,
pointed out to the assembly that
the preamble bad been copied ver
bstim from the preamble of the
national constitution. Neil Jackson
of the University of North Carolina
delegation spoke in opposition to the
amendment. The ACC delegation
castits two votes against the de
letion.
An amendment to change the
wording of a sub-section governing
the status of regional officers
failed for the lack of a second.
The “bus discounts” resolution
niandated an investigation be made
under the direction of the chair
man in the possbility of establish
es a system of discounts on bus
services within the region. The
resolution stated that “students are
notoriously 01-equipped financially
to meet the higher cost of trans
portation. The resolution was pro
posed by Sweet Briar Ck)llege in
Virginia.
President Lee Lome reported to
the Executive Board meeting Mon
day that efforts are underway to set
up a delegation to represent ACC
at the State Student Legislature in
February at Raleigh. He encouraged
the delegation to plan and to in
troduce a worthwhOe bill to that
Thomas Hackney Sr. Honored
Thomas J. Hackney Sr., was hon-1 history is in a name. The name
ored Tuesday evening at a dinner Hackney, is memorialized in one of
given by the Atlantic Christian Col
lege Chapter of the American As
sociation of Universtiy Professors.
Attending were some 80 persons
which included ACC faculty mem
bers of the Executive Committee
THOMAS J. hackney, SR.
of the Board of Trustees, children
of the guest of honor and adminis
trative guests.
Speaker for the event was Dr.
Mildred Hartsock, cha'rman of
the Department of English, who
said, “A character in one of Shr.ke-
speare’s plays asked the ques -
tion: What’s in a name? Those
who know the developing history of
Atlantic Christian College might
answer a goodly segment of that
our buildings, but far more signi
ficantly memorialized in a long
tradition of family service to the
institution.”
Dr. Hartsock told of George Hack
ney, father of the guest of honor,
being the first chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the college.
Thomas Hackney Sr., joined the
board in 1932 and took over
as chairman in 1936. “During his
32 years of leadership,” said the
speaker, “nine buildings have been
built; faculty training has been
strengthened; financial undergirding
has been improved; and plans for
the future have burgeoned.
“Tom Hackney has given generous
gifts to the college. But far
more important has been his pas
sionate belief in the college. He
has een the very pattern of the
ideal trustee; hard-working, open-
minded, profoundly dedicated to the
welfare of the college he loves.”
Presiding at the dinner was Gene
See HACKNEY Page 4
Announcement
The annual Christmas Ball will
be held in the lobby of the class
room building on December 11, 1964,
sponsored by the Social Committee
A. C. This dance will be semi-formal
and will be held from 8:00-12:00
p.m. The music will be provied by
the “Kays” from Rocky Mt. There
is no charge for admission.
Notice
Classes at ACC will resume
at 8 a.m. Monday, Janury 4
instead of Thursday, January
4 as stated in the 1964-65
Catalogue. Monday, December
14, will be the official pre-reg
istration day for the Spring
Semester. No classes will be
held on this day, but evening
classes will meet as usual.
The Atlantic Christian College
Music Club will have its next meet
ing on December 16, 1964 in the
Music Building. Presenting the pro
gram at this meeting will be Mr.
and Mrs. James V. Cobb, Jr. Their
program will consist of songs of
the Christmas season by Gershwin,
Irvin Berlin, Purcell, Mozart, and
others. During this meeting the club
members will practice Christmas
Carols they will sing when caroling
the following night.
body.
Stuart Lee, Sophomore Class Pres
ident, moved that the Board under
write his class in the amount
of $200 for a concert featuring the
“Supremes” which his class is
planning for the spring. Lee related
that tickets would be sold at $1.50
at the door and $2.00 for advance
tickets. The motion was passed af
ter some discussion.
Through a mot on made by Jan
ice Cousins the Board agreed to
finance the repair of the piano
which was assigned a home at Harp
er Hall during last week’s session.
Marshall Smith informed the
Board of a communication system
whereby student drivers desiring
riders to share expenses and stu
dent riders desiring rides may co
ordinate their activities. Smith as
serted that systems of this nature
were active in other colleges and
offer students a valuable service. He
suggested that the Board ap
point a committee to establish
such a system at ACC. Cookie
Wickham made the motion to this
effect and the motion was passed.
Lee Horne announced that he had
been asked to recommend for dormi
tory students to serve as student
representatives of a proposed Cafe
teria Committee. This is to be a
standing committee and will include
in addition to the four students two
faculty members and two admin
istration members. Horne announced
that he had selected Lynn Head,
Elwood Vann, Dwight Wagner, and
See SUl’REMES Page 4
Stiideiits Aske*!
To Kefraiii From
Fiiliirt* l*n)U“sts
The Executive Board of the Co
operative Association went into com
mittee as a whole Monday night
al(?ng with some 40 interested ACC
stidents to discuss the recent pro
test and the conditions in the cafe
teria. Tlie number of students ob-
.-•erving the meeting was the largest
reported this year.
The Board approved a motion
that “the newly formed college
standing committee appointed to in
vestigate the cafeteria food service
be recommended to submit a report
to the Executive Board at a regu
lar weekly meeting during the
Spring Semester of 1965, by the
middle of the Semester, and that
they also include comments on the
explicit improvements. At the time
of rejxirting, the Executive Board
will relay this report in full for
consideration to the student body.
And that until this time the Execu
tive Board recommends to the stu
dent body that they refrain from
protests.”
The new standing committee con
sists of the college business man
ager, the dean of students, a faculty
member, the cafeteria dietician, and
four ACC resident students. A simi
lar committee was appointed last
year to study the food service in
the cafeteria.
Approximately 200 ACC students
protested food service in the cafe
teria last Thursday evening in a
demonstration that lasted more than
an hour.
Dr. Arthur Wenger, president of
the college, was present at a spe
cial student assembly last Friday
morning to discuss student griev
ances over the food service. An
estimated 400 students attended the
special meeting.
The demonstration Thursday
night was triggered when the cafe
teria served hickory - smoked ham
burger steaks for dinner.
Some 40 hamburgers were dumped
onto a cafeteria table with a note
reading, “this is 100 per cent dog
food,” and on the other side, “this
food is for the dogs.”
Approximately 100 trays were left
on the tables by students angry
over the quality of the food served.
Student complaints about the food
service have been because of quali
ty, quantity, the manner in which
food is served, excessive line break
ing as well as long waiting lines..
See MOTION Page 4
Ministry Meeting
Nine students from Atlantic Chris^
tian College attended a conference
on the ministry at The College
of the Bible recently.
The students are seniors, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Whiteley of Wilson;
juniors, Fred Barber of Portsmouth,
Va., and Martha Mewborn of Kin
ston; sophomores, Thurman Bruffey
of Kinston, and Kenneth Britton of
Portsmouth, Va.; and freshmen, Wi
ley D. Harris of Raleigh, Jerry
White of Pendleton, Ind., and Robert
Bohannon of Stokesdale, N. C.
The two-day conference was joint
ly sponsored by The College of the
Bible and the Kentucky Association
of Christian Churches.
Annual Vesper
Service Is Set
The campus Christian Association,
the Music Department, and the Con
cert and Assembly Committee are
jointly sponsoring the annual Christ
mas Vesper Service this year in
Howard Chapel at 4 p.m. on Dec
ember 13.
The service will feature the ACC
Chorus singing, “The Christmas
Story” by Heinrich Schutz. Soloists
will be Kay Smith, Karen DeHart,
Barbara Dixon, J. C. Fields and
Bill Griffin singing the part of the
evangelist, who narrates the entire
story.
The 75-voice Chorus and the
Chamber Orchestra will be under
the direction of James Cobb, ACC
music department chairman. Aslo
featured on the program will be
ACC Brass Ensemble under the di
rection of Neal ‘O’Neal, ACC band
director. Organist for the perfor
mance will be Charles Rakow of the
music department.
Students, faculty and the general
public are invited to attend.