Tlie Golleffiate
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 2, 1967
NUMBER TWELVE
Annual Parents^ Day
To Be This Weekend
For the sixth year, parents of
Atlantic Christian. College will be
honored at a special Parents’
Week End to be held on the
college campus Saturday and
Sunday, Feb. 4-5. The parents of
the college’s student body of
some 1,500 have been invited.
More than 800 parents attended
last year.
Parents have been invited to
arrive on Saturday and see the
ACC basketball team play the
Guilford College team in the new
Wilson Gymnasium at 8 p.m.
There will be no admission
charge for parents.
Registration is to be held Sun
day from 9:30 a.m. until noon.
Parents of women students are
to register in Harper Hall and
parents of men students are to
register in Hackney Hall.
Parents have been invited to
Dr. Bullard
Is Recipient
Dr. Roger A. Bullard, associate
professor of religion at Atlantic
Christian College, has been
named as recipient of a grant-in-
aid in the amount of $1,700 for
post-doctoral research for the
summer of 1967 by the American
Council of Learned Societies in
New York.
Dr. Bullard’s research project
will consist of an exploratory
translation of an ancient Coptic
Gnostic manuscript. He will
spend a portion of the summer
in research at the Claremont
Graduate School, Claremont, Cal
ifornia.
Thirty - five scholars repre
senting 28 colleges and univer
sities in 11 states, the District
of Columbia and Canada were
selected in a national competi
tion to do research in a wide
range of areas. The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
is the only other North Carolina
school represented by grant re
cipients.
The American Council of Learn
ed Societies, with offices at 345
East 46th Street in New York,
See DR. BULLARD Page 4
attend morning worship services
in Howard Chapel located on
the college campus from 11-
11:45 a.m. Presiding over ser
vices and preaching the morn
ing sermon will be Chaplain
Dan Hensley Jr. Music will be
provided by the ACC Chapel
Choir with Prof. Charles Rakow
directing.
A complimentary luncheon will
be held in the old Wilson Gym
nasium at noon. During the
luncheon a program will be held
with Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, pres
ident of the college, presiding.
Guests will be welcomed by
Dwight L. Wagner, president of
the Student Government Associa
tion. Guests will be entertained
by a musical presentation by
the ACC Chorus with Prof. J.
Ross Albert directing.
Following the luncheon par
ents will be invited to meet the
faculty and administration, and
attend campus open house and a
social hour in Hines Hall.
Denny Essay
Topic Named
It is time for students to start
writing essays for the Annual
Denny Essay Award. The Topic
for the essay is “American
Morality and Vietnam”.
Students interested in writing
should consider the following
points:
1. They may write either pro
or con on the subject.
2. The essay should not ex
ceed one thousand words.
3. The essay should be double
spaced and typed.
4. This . contest is open to all
full-time students at ACC.
The deadline for receiving the
essays is April 7 and they
should be turned into Mr. Rob
ert Hollar, chairman of the
Faculty Awards Committee.
The Denny Essay cup will be
awarded during the annual Blue
and White Day in May. The
winner last year was Miss Sarah
Frances Patterson.
As approved by the faculty,
the topic for the essay has been
chosen by the Department of
Social Studies.
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news from the front — Our American ^rvicemen in
War Zone C are shown above completing the painstWdng tas
of destroying another enemy underground tunnel. J^ese in
nave discovered several 10 mm welding rods, pilots gOfiies,
and various other useful military items. Actually a section o
AC’s heat system went on the blink again and these men were
simply working on the tunnel... I mean underground pipe .
(Photo by Dwight Wagner)
Campus Blood Drive
Planned For Next Week
Operation Big Drop
Students at Atlantic Christian College will participate in “Op
eration Big Drop” the on-campus campaign to solicit donors
for the Red Cross Bloodmobile to be located in Hackney Hall
Feb. 9 and 10. Consent forms are being distributed on campus
so parents may give permission for students xmder 21 to par
ticipate in the donor program. Shown making plans for the
drive are Dean Robert Washer, faculty advisor, seated, and
Bobbie Ellis and Steve Dollar, student co-chairmen of the event.
(Photo by Nancy Shreve)
Exec. Board Considers
Problem of Cheating
The SGA Executive Board
spent a busy night Monday as
several matters were presented
to them for consideration and ac
tion. One of the things brought to
their attention was the large
number of cheating incidences
that has recently occurred. Presi
dent Dwight Wagner reported
that within a week’s time sixteen
students had eome before the
Discipline and 'Morale Committee
because of violations of academic
honesty. On January, 13 seven
students appeared before the
commiittee with only light dis
ciplinary action teing taken
against them. However, a week
later another group of students
was brought ibefore the commit
tee for the same type of yiola-
tions. The result, stated Wagner,
was a considerable increase in
the degree of punishment. It was
Wagner’s feeling that these in
cidences of violation of academic
honesty should deeply conern the
members of the Board. Noting
that most of the cheating inci
dences occurred among members
of the Fres:hman class Wagner
emphasized that all student lead
ers should strive to onake [Fresh
men aware of what is involved
with academic honesty and with
the, penalties if this honesty is
violated.
Certain Board members ex
pressed the feeling that possibly
many Freshmen are not laware
of what iconstitutes cheating and
plagiarizing. Mr. Albert, faculty
advisor to the board, said that
because of much lighter punish
ment for such offenses in high
school many students do not real
ize when they come to college
that pilagarizing and cheating are
considered to ;baS|>very grave of
fenses in college. Mr. Wagner
told the Board that in an effort
to reduce the number of such in
cidences academic honesty would
be discussed at the next advisor-
advisee meeting and (plans are
also ibeing made to discuss Giis
subject during next year’s Fresh
men Orientation.
Tie Board -also heard a propo
sal to set up a Pass-Fail Grad
ing System at ACC. Under this
system a student would be al
lowed to take a course in which
he would get a P or F instead
of A,B,C,D, or F. If he passed
the course he would ibe given
credit for the hours, but &e
course would in no way be fig
ured in with his quality ,point
average whether he passed or
failed it. It was pointed out
that this would give the student
an opportunity to liberalize his
education without fear of injur
ing his grade point average. The
system would be set up in a lim
ited manner. A student would
not be able to take a P or F in
a course which was part of his
major, minor, or college re
quirements. The P-F course
would have to be >an elective.
A student would have to have
a 2.2 average in order to take
such a course, he would only be
able to take one P-F course a
semester, and the maximum
number of‘P-F hours he could'
See EXEC. Page 4
Series To Host
Fiedler Concert
On Tuesday night, February 7
at 8:15 p. m. in Fike High
School, the Community 'Concerts
Series will present Arthur Fied
ler conducting the New Orleans
Philharmonic in a Pops con
cert. Mr. Fiedler and the Phil
harmonic Orchestra will also be
in Raleigh on February 5th and
6th for the Friends of the Col
lege iSeries. On the program for
this appearance of the orchestra
will be Dvorak’s, “Carnival,
Overture”, H o h a n n Strauss’s
“Tales from the Vienna Woods,”
selectio'ns from Bock’s “Fiddler
on the Roof” and several other
well known compositions.
There are 15 free tickets to
the Friends of the College Series
available to AOC students and
faculty at a first co.me first
serve basis. These tickets may
be picked up at the desk in
the Music Building.
The Wilson County Blood Pro
gram is asking a repeat of At
lantic Christian College’s perfor
mance last year when the Blood-
mobile will be at Hackney HaU
again on Februairy 9 from 1:00
- 7:00 p. m. and February 10
from 10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Prep
arations are now in progress to
encourage full support of the
campus drive.
In the first Operation Big Drop
last year, ACC students and fac
ulty contributed 180 pints of
blood, helping Wilson County to
meet its igoal for only the sec
ond time since the program has
been in existence. The second
Operation Big Drop is expected
to top last year’s record, and
student co-chairmen Bobbie El
lis, a junior, and Steve Dollar,
freshman, along with faculty ad
visor Dean Robert Washer are
busy making plans with Wilson
County Red Cross unit drive co-
chairmen Mr. Jim Ellis and
Mr. Charles Clayton to assure
the success of the cainpus drive.
Students may obtain an infor
mation packet containing a
pamphlet describing the program
and its benefits, a pledge
card, a parental consent form
for those under 21, land a letter
to parents. Those who have not
already received this informa
tion may do iso on Friday, Feb
ruary 3, .when a table will be
■set up in the classroom buM-
ing for this purpose. The paren-
tal consent form must be signed
by the parents -and turned in on
the day of the Bloodmobile visit.
All prospsctive donors must
sign pledge cards designating the
organization for whom they are
making the pledge and turn
them into the SGA buSding
from Feburary 2-8 before 7:00
p.m. Campus organizations will
be competing on a percentage
basis for the largest number of
donors, and the group with the
greatest percentage of ipartici-
pation will receive a plaque from
the Red Cross. Last year Sigtna
Pi won the honors; 19 of the 22
members pledged and donated
blood, for 86 per cent participa
tion. A chart will be posted on
campus, as it was last year, to
See CAMPUS Page 4
Service Testing
Dates Revealed
Applications for the March 11
and 31, and April 8, 1967 ad
ministrations of the College
Qualification Test are now
available at Selective S ervi c e
System local boards throughout
the country.
Eligible students who intend to
take this test should apply at
once to the nearest Selective
Service local board for an Ap
plication Card and a Bulletin of
Information for the test.
Following instructions in the
Bulletin, the student should fill
out his application and mail it
immediately in the envelope pro
vided to SELECTIVE SERVICE
SECTION, Educational Testing
Service, P. 0. Box 988, Prince
ton, New Jersey 08540. To en
sure processing, applications
must be postmarked no later
than midnight, February 10, 1967.
According to Educational Test
ing Service, which prepares and
administers the College Qualifi
cations Test for the Selective
Service System, it will be greatly
to the student’s advantage to
file his application at once. By
registering early, he stands the
best chance of being assigned to
the test center he has chosen.
Because of the possibility that he
may be assigned to any of the
testing dates, it is very import
ant that he list a center and
center number for every date on
which he will be available. Scores
on the test will be sent directly
to the registrant’s local board.