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CRUSADER
‘Stage And Script To Open
Antigone’ In Chapel Tonight
By BOB NOBLE
Ever since the time that man
lishadastateanda god, he has
ta faced with the question of
e. To whom does he owe
I allegiance, to the state
ir to God?
Philosophers, theologians, and
jsical scientists have written
dlumes concerning the subject,
ta thousand, four hundred
rearsago, Sophocles wrote a play
Mug with this question. The
mterial for his play came from a
Itlegend which the Greeks had
ta telling for years before
Sophocles. According to
Sophocles, the legend went as
Mows: Oedipus, brought up
Iram infancy in a foreign court
Slid ignorant of his own father
iniimother, returns as a man to
riiebes, and kills his own father,
tos, and marries his own
, Jocasta, by whom he had
Class Elections
Begin Monday
I March 24-25 will see elections
I I Wdfor class officers. The rising
sophomore, junior and senior
1 tlasses are to select leaders for
coming year.
Nominations for class officials
wlude the following;
Senior: President, Doug Brin
son and Sammy Carter; Vice-
President, Bill Gallagher and
Robert Thompson; Treasuer,
unknown; Secretary, Scooter
Ormond (unopposed); Senator,
Sandy Porter (unopposed).
Junior: President, Jimmy
^cas and Tommy Herring; V-P,
Wia Looney, Jim Adcox and
Smith; Treasurer, Bonnie
and Nancy Parks;
^cretary, Joyce Clegg, Susan
and Sharon Wells;
^Bator, Lonny Miller, Joyce
Copeland and Linda Gaddy.
Sophomore; President, Jim
Abbott and Bill Jennings; V-P B.
^ Franklin (by acclamation);
«tretary, unknown; Treasurer,
« Reaser and Margaret Crab-
Senator, Mike Wenger and
'^hbie Hayman.
Lstings are incomplete
^(^ause class officials were
^^vailable tor comment Tues-
night.
four children, Antigone and
Ismene (the sisters) and Eteocles
and Polynices (the brothers).
When the two-fold sin is made
known to the family, Jocasta
hangs herself and Oedipus, after
putting out his own eyes, takes
Antigone begging with him on the
highways. Later on, Oedipus dies
in exile and Antigone returns to
Thebes. After Oedipus’ death, the
two sons agree to share their
father’s throne, each to reign
over Thebes in alternate years.
After Eteocles has ruled a full
year, he refuses to give over the
throne to his brother. A civil war
ensues, with Eteocles in com
mand of the Theban army, and
Polynices in command of an
army, whose ranks are filled by
the armies of six princes,
Polynices’ foreign allies. During
the course of the war, the foreign
princes are defeated and
Eteocles and Polynices kill one
another in combat just outside
the walls of the city, Creon, their
uncle, now becomes king of
Thebes.
It is here that Jean Anouilh’s
“Antigone” begins. Creon
proclaims that Eteocles, on
whose side he was, is to be given
a state funeral with pomp and
honors, while the corpse of
Polynices is to be left to rot where
it fell. The edict also states that
any person who attempts to give
the corpse burial will himself be
put to death. At this edict, An
tigone rebels. The fact that a man
lies rotting and unburied is to her
blasphemy, offensive to the laws
of God and all decent human
instincts.
In his treatment of the subject,
Anouilh was writing in 1943, in
Paris, France which was at that
time occupied by the armies of
Germany.
His text had to receive the
sanction of a German censor
before it could be performed in
the presence of the German
Police State. He made Antigone a
martyr who refused to say yes,
not only to the desecration of
Polynices but even more to the
kind of life that Creon offered her
— a life in which she is promised
“happiness if she will agree not to
intervene in anything which does
not concern her material
existence. Under the Occupation,
Anouilh’s Antigone was able to
symbolize to all Frenchmen,
France herself, France rejecting
the German “New Order” with
its promise of prosperity.
Life Decision Seminar
Slated For Youth
A “Life Decision Seminar,”
sponsored jointly by Atlantic
Christian College and The
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) in North Carolina, will be
held on campus Friday through
Sunday. The purpose of the
seminar is to confront capable
young people with the possibility
of entering church vocations.
Among key participants in the
seminar will be Dr. Wayne
Harvey Bell of Nashville, Tenn.,
president of the Board of Unified
Promotion for Disciples of
Christ; Dr. George Earle Owen of
[ndianapolis, Ind., assistant to
the executive secretary of the
International Convention of
Christian Churches Disciples of
Christ); and Dr. Allan R. Sharp,
professor of religion and director
of ministerial education at
Atlantic Christian College.
Giving the keynote address for
the first session to be held in
Hines Hall will be Dr. Bell. The
session is to get under way at 8
p.m. and is to be followed with a
question and answer period. A
recreation period is to be held
beginning at 9 p.m. in Wilson
Gymnasium with Ira Norfolk,
ACC director of athletics, serving
as leader.
The closing session of the
seminar will be held at 11 a.m.
with Dr. Arthur D. Wenger,
president of the college,
presiding. The main address,
entitled “Crisis and the
Ministry,” will be delivered by
Dr. Bell.
re Attempt
Newsletter
Is Subject
Of Dispute
By JOYCE COPELAND
Campaigns for the recent
election of 1969-70 SGA officers
prompted action at the March 12
meeting of the executive board.
William Perkinson presented a
motion to censor Kenneth
O’Connell, Day Student
president,for dereliction of duty.
The problem arose when sever
al complaints were voiced con
cerning the latest addition of the
Day Student letters. The Joe
Wilkins platform comprised
about one-half of the paper which
is supported by Student funds. A
cool, calm and collected
O’Connell explained the cir
cumstances surrounding the
news letter in his defense. He had
posted a notice for anyone
wishing to place news in the
letter. Harold Herring, manager
of Wilkin’s campaign, asked
O’Connel to place Wilkins plat
form in the letter if he paid for the
paper to print it. O’Connell
agreed and the platform was
printed.
Steve Dollar offered an
amendment prohibiting any
further occurrence of this
situation. The amendment failed
to meet the approval of Perkins
because it was deemed subject
for a separate motion.
Jim Abbott, freshman
president, agreed that A1 Cooke,
Wilkin’s opponent, would not
consider his platform material
for the news letter as he was not a
day student. He accused
O’Connell of usurping his power
and misusing his duties as editor
of the letter. O’Connell should
have sought out A1 Cooke to see if
he would like to place his plat
form in the news letter.
Dollar agreed that both sides
should have appeared, but in
light of O’Connell’s statement the
incident was a lack of under
standing rather than a willful
neglect of duty. He urged the
board to set down rules that
would prevent a similar incident
in the future.
Perkinson restated his appeal
that they were not accusing
O’Connell of a major crime or
trying to remove his powers or
office. He reminded the board
that O’Connell had plenty of time
to think over his decision.
Tom Aycock told the board that
the motion being discussed was
ridiculous and the board was out
of their tree” if it passed.
Perkinson insisted that the
matter constituted a misuse of
funds. The postage for the letter
was paid from student funds even
if the paper containing the plat
form wasn’t. He explained that
according to certain evidence he
was sure Wilkins knew nothing of
the matter. He presented two
peitions to the board signed by
several students complaining
about the controversial letter.
Paul Latta lashed out against
the debaters. He told the board
that whether or not they wanted
to censure O’Connell they had
surely done it “anyone who would
present this type of motion is
common and I think Perkinson
and Abbott owe O’Connell an
onolo£v,’’ Latta declared.
Abbott assured Latta that the
issue was not common. 0 Con
nell, as the new SGA treasurer
would be handling $27,000 next
See BOARD Page Two
SECONDS MOTION
COMPROMISES
Advanced Fee
Due April 15
An advance payment of $50 is
required of all full-time students
who are returning for the Fall
1969 Semester. The payment is
due by April 15.
Students planning to take 12 or
more hours of course work during
the semester are required to
make the payment. Students
planning to take less than 12
hours of course work are not
required to make the payment.
Payments are to be made to the
cashier in the Business office
located in the Administration
Building.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
^Cyrano’ Set
For Monday
The Pacific Repertory Com
pany, a professional touring com
pany, will present the Edmond
Rostand classic comic-tragedy
“Cyrano De Bergerac” in
Howard Chapel on the Atlantic
Christian College campus at 8.15
p.m. Monday.
The public is invited to this
colorful and striking production.
Tickets will be available at the
door.