A Touch Of Silk
Colleges and Universities for the most part are
noted for undying traditions, established patterns
of thoughts, actions and customs, which withstand
the furor of our everchanging society. These in
stitutions still take pride in their ivy-covered halls
of learning, their ever-familiar campus melodies,
and the various rites preformed upon those who
have graced their glorious halls. It is indeed an
inspiration that some such pieces of nostalgia are
retained, however, it is also relieving that some
customary relics have faded into oblivion. One such
practice is that of the panty raid.
The occurance of a group of lusty young men
storming a girls dormitory in hopes of retrieving
some fair maindens unmentionables is indeed an
uncommon site in our era of sophistication.
However, it must be noted that Atlantic Christian
College, and its students, is a common ground for
the uncommon events of life. Even within the past
week cheering girls have witnessed the siege of
Killey Hall by several devil-may-care marauders
with silk in their eyes.
For some this incident may have served a pur
pose, if fact it may have been beneficial to those
involved. In Jim Henderson’s “Virginia Pilot”
news column he quoted professor Guy Owen, who
teachers English at North Carolina State
University in Raleigh as saying, “Panty raids. Pay
the football players to stage them, and the girls to
participate.” Jim Henderson said the professor
further stated, “That outdated emotional outlet of
the 1950s college era would relieve a lot of the stress
that keeps today’s college students up tight.” The
professor also interjected, “Bring back panty
raids, on a commercial basis and the excess energy
that goes into burning ROTC buildings, storming
Administration, and holding up in the library with
Ml carbines would be dissipated.” Maybe the
professor had a point. However we must look at this
from the stand point of our own college situation.
It is hard to believe that any of the students of
ACC have no better place to channel their energy.
If the urge besieges a student to pour out his
anxiety he may well take it out on the basketball
court, the intramual field, in a cold shower, or even
his girlfriend if he has one available.
The simple facts are that such panty raids have a
tendency to disturb the peace of the college, not to
mention that of the surrounding neighborhood.
Knowing that said neighbors will put in a call to the
local police without hesitation, therefore inviting
unwanted bad publicity it would appear that excess
energy will have to find another source of relief. Of
course, if such energy goes into seiging of building,
burning of administration, etc., then maybe
Professor Owen has the right idea, put panty raids
on a commercial basis.
Tell It Like It Is
The Executive Board of the
Student Government
Association recently considered
a proposal concerning co-ed
dorms at A. C. C. “Tell It Like It
Is” probed the student body for
its opinion on the controversial,
though interesting matter.
.Maybe the boys think we
should because they keep trying
to get in the windows.
A.M. (female).
Might work at other places but
A. C. C. isn’t an experimental
college, it just isn’t that large.
However it is a good idea to
bring people closer together.
E.H. (male).
It would be alright, if oc
cupants conducted themselves
in a mannerly fashion, but no
adjacent rooms.
D.W. (female).
Not necessary, it is just as
easy to walk next door as to
climb a flight of stairs.
B. C. (male).
All right! Good grief! Good
idea! I need all the help I can
get.
M.T. (female).
Yes, co-ed dorms would
establish better all around
relationships and the sex drive
wouldn’t be as great.
A.D.M. (male).
Doubtful about the success of
the idea because before the age
of 21 most individuals are not
mature enough, especially
freshman girls, but after 211 see
nothing wrong with it if facilities
were provided, maybe suites.
J.H. (male).
Yes, there are many benefits,
an example would be, girls could
do the laundry.
M.D. (female).
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Reader’s Perspective
Dear Editor:
On Thursday, September 18, I
attended what turned out to be
an interesting and amusing
debate. Russell Roebuck, past
International President of Delta
Sigma Phi and David Finch,
President of the Interfraternity
Council of Atlantic Christian
College led the Greeks. The
opposition was represented by
Larry Stauers and Robert
Koelling. The question of the
debate was whether a student
should pledge a fraternity or
sorority.
The opposition based their
negative stand on the premises
tliat: Pledging hurts a student’s
grades, fraternity and sorority
averages are usually lower than
the norm, and that Greek-Letter
Socieities are a dying system.
These were later proven to be
incorrect opinions when Mr.
Roebuck began his positive
stand speech with; “The opposi
tion has obviously not done their
homework very well.” Mr.
Roebuck then proved he had
done his homework when he
began listing statistics, some ol
which 1 will now quote,
“About Vi of those who matri
culate in the nation’s colleges
will graduate. On those cam
puses where there are no fra
ternities, 33 per cent of the men
will graduate. On the campuses
where there are fraternities, 47
per cent of those who did not join
will graduate and 59 per cent of
those who joined nationally
affiliated fraternities will gradu
ate. Just attending a college
where there are fraternities
increases a man’s chance of
graduating by 14 per cent — by
joining a national social
fraternity he will increase his
chance of persistence to gradu
ation by 26 per cent.” (From the
U. S. Office of Education)
When David Finch was asked
about the Greek averages at
Atlantic Christian, he called on
Dean Lozier, who supplied the
following information; For the
Spring Semester 1969, All
fraternities were aoove the all
men’s average and two of the
three sororities were above the
all women’s average.
Of the 1,546 colleges in the U.
S. which grant the bacca
laureate degree, over 1,000 have
Greek-Letter Societies (2-3).
This represents a gain of amost
40 per cent in the last ten years
in the number of colleges having
Greek-Letter Societies.
Although there w'as no definite
winner or loser of this debate, I
think the results were obviously
positive. The negative side
presented their argument with
little or no tangible proof to back
up their beliefs. On the other
hand, the Greeks could and did
support their argument with
sound and scientific facts,
Seward Lawlor
Dear Editor:
I would like to make some per
sonal observations regarding
Monday night’s first meeting of
the SGA Executive Board. At
that meeting I proposed that a
committee of students be ap
pointed to “investigate the
possibility of establishing some
type of coed dormitory existence
here at A,C.” This proposal was
not a clarion call for immediate
action to establish that type of
co-existence, but was only a call
for investigation. However, the
Board evidently saw no merit in
even investigating the
possibilities, for they immedi
ately defeated the proposal
without any negative discussion
at all.
In retrospect, this has brought
to my mind, two questions.
Number one, is what happened
to the Student Government offi
cers that were elected last yeai
on a platform built around social
change. Have these officers
already abandoned their
campaign banner calling for
social change and the abolish
ment of certain "social taboos? ”
Or do their proposed changes
concern only the use of alcoholic
beverages off campus?
The second main question con
cerns the open-mindedness of
the Board. How many of those
who voted against the proposal
knew anything about coed
dorms? It appears to me that
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when elected officers
negatively to a subject t
know little about, that
officials are not properly
sen ting those studentsjgj
elected them. Before in^aki t
proposal I talked with a
number of my constituents,®
of whom expressed a desir j-
have the idea investigatea.
As I stated Monday, pe»A
the committee would have ,
eluded that coed dorms w
highly infeasible here at A j
perhaps they couid hav
significant educational P;tl
ance. In any case it
have hurt to look ’"to * ^i
In conclusion, 1 only P 'h,
in the future, SGA ■ ,Iis
be more objective m tn ‘ ^
look, and will act
same manner as we w
for members of Je
administration,
Trustees to act...ope
Sincerely yours,
James Abbott
President
Sophomore Class ■