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CHRISTIAN COLLEGF NOVEMBER
Current Social Movement
Inevitable Says Curl
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LIBRARY
CHRISTIAN COLLBS^BEFI NINE
Prohibition, that golden era in America’s history, is aptly
depicted by Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. The Delta’s tied for
tirst place in their division in the Homecoming float com
petition. (Photo by Ed Harris)
By JIM ABBOTT
The social revolution occur
ring in America today was
inevitable,” said Mr. Hugo Curl,
Tuesday’s convocation speaker.
Mr, Curl is presently an
assistant professor of English
and coordinator of Public
Relations at Norfolk State
College. He was educated at
Virginia State College, Atlanta
University, and New York Uni
versity. Currently, he is an
associate of the Danforth
Foundation and is a member of
•the Welfare Board of Virginia
Beach, Va.
At the outset of his remarks,
Mr. Curl noted that, “America is
now and always has been a
symbol of freedom, and the
present social revolution was
spawned by our indigenous
belief in freedom,” Mr. Curl
pointed out that for the most
part, the participants in this
revolution are those youth, old
enough to fight and die for the
country, but too young to par
ticipate in its democratic
process, i,e,, vote. The con
temporary revolutionaries noted
Curl, are those people who have
been forced for so long to “hew
the wood” and to “tow the line,”
These people he said are now
weary of their destiny.
Coloring his basic premises
with quotes from Thomas Jef
ferson, the Bible, and Eldridge
Cleaver, Mr. Curl delineated
certain personal observations
concerning the present social
revolution. To begin with he
noted that a new strategy for
effecting social change has
emerged. It is a strategy that
prompts certain risks for all
Americans. The students risk
interrupting their education,
older people risk the loss of
prestige in the community, and
the women risk physical harm.
However, Mr. Curl emphasized
that if we are to change present
social conditions then these risks
and challenges must be met.
Mr. Curl’s second observation
Foundation ^HPSCHD* Concert Lauded
?Gives Cash
Atlantic Christian College has
received a grant of $1,500 from
S; The Sears-Roebuck Foundation.
"^'jThe grant was presented
'Monday by D,B, Hite, local
representative of the foundation,
and was accepted by President
• Arthur D, Wenger in behalf of
^the college.
Grants totaling $1,5 million
will be distributed to more than
950 private, accredited two and
four-year colleges. Grants
I amounting to $1 million have
been designated as unrestricted,
"While others amounting to
I $500,00 have been especially
designated for book acquisition
through a library assistance
'program operating for the first
I time this year.
Movie Friday
I The Student Center Com-
.mittee will sponsor its second
I movie of the year this Friday,
The hilarious comedy, Cat
, Ballou, starring Lee Marvin will
be shown beginning at 8 p,m, in
Hardy Alumni Hall,
By OTTO W. HENRY
Last night’s Contemporary
Arts Festival Concert at Atlantic
Christian College featured
music of the Avant Garde,
Highlight of the evening was the
second performance of the John
Cage and Lejaren Hiller piece
“HPSCHD”, performed by guest
harpsichordist Neely Bruce with
the assistance of about 10 tape
recorders, an urn of coffee and
two trays of cookies.
In his preliminary remarks,
Mr, Bruce urged the audience to
move about Howard Chapel
freely, to partake of the refresh
ments and to join him on the
stage and read the score with
him.
They complied with gusto,
and, it seemed to me, with some
relief, “HPSCHD” soon
developed into a delightful
music gallery as people strolled
about talking and inspecting the
equipment.
The earlier half of the concert
was taken up with Douglas
Leedy’s “Usable Music I”
(1967), William Hellermann’s
“Ariel” (1967), and William
Duckworth’s “Western Exit”
(1969),
Leedy’s piece “for very small
instruments with holes” was
realized by 18 members of the
ACC Band using harmonicas.
The two movements (performed
from behind the audience in the
balcony) were short, plaintive
and somehow touching in their
simplicity and directness,
“Ariel,” an electronic com
position for tape alone, seemed
dry and academic by com
parison.
“Western Exit” combined two
slide projectors, a film and an
announcer with nine in
struments (mostly percussion).
The instrumental sounds
seemed to revolve in repeated
sections and generated a slightly
strange rock atmosphere.
The visuals (also by the
composer) superimposed their
rhythms on this ostinado. The
combined effect was like a cross
section of newsreels; past,
present and future.
See PERFORMANCE Page 4
was that the very foundations of
our society are now being
shaken. Rhetorically, Curl asked
whether or not our society
protects the rights of some of its
citizens to the “pursuit of
happiness’’ while
simultaneously denying these
rights to others. In regard to
these rights, Mr. Curl referred to
the 1954 Supreme Court case of
Brown vs. the Board of Edu
cation, Alluding that he is not so
naive to think a Supreme Court
decision can blend the minds of
all people into “one big bag of
goodies,” The results of this case
according to Curl do not suggest
that things are any better, but
rather that they are only differ
ent,
Mr, Curl’s third observation
was aimed at the changing
climate on today’s college
campuses. He said that students
have always rebelled against
authority, but in the past their
rebellions were confined to
swallowing gold fish and panty
raids. However, today’s youth,
said Curl, have reverted to mass
protests and to occupying
campus buildings.
In closing his remarks, Mr,
Curl expressed once again his
dominant theme, this time using
the words of Thomas Jefferson
who once said, “Perhaps, a little
rebellion now and then may be a
good thing,,,”
Music And Art News
Thomas Albert, a senior music
major from Wilson, was named
winner of the 1969 Student
Composition Contest held at
Atlantic Christian College in
connection with the Festival of
Contemporary Arts, His winning
composition was “Communion
Hymn Cluster” for three small
choirs.
The judge for the event was
visiting composer Roger Han-
nay of the University of North
Carolina, In presenting the
award, Hannay praised the
competency and imagination
shown by Albert in dealing with
his musical materials. The
winning work was chosen from a
group of five student com
positions submitted,
Albert, who was co-winner of
the 1968 contest, has his com
position “Permutation” for
French horn and piano published
by Media Press of Champaign,
Illinois,
at Greensboro, He is now an art
teacher at Darden High School
and Coon Junior High School in
Wilson, He has exhibited his
work widely and has won a
number of awards.
The Case Art Building gallery
hours are Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 10 a,m,-5 p,m,; Tuesday
and Thursday 12 noon-5 p,m,;
Tuesday evening from 7 p,m,- 9
p,m,; and Sunday afternoon
from 2 p,m, 5 p,m. There is no
admission charge.
See Martin
Presidents of the following
clubs and organizations are
urged to contact Lee Martin by
Monday, November 17, to
arrange for pictures to be used
in the 1970 PINE KNOT. The
organizations are: Psychology
Club, Pi Gamma Mu, Sigma Pi
Alpha, CCA, BSU, UCCF, Music
Society, Science Club, Physical
Education Club, Women’s
Dormatory Association, S.G.A.,
Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Phi
Epsilon, Sigma Pi, Panhellenic,
and IFC.
ALL club and organization
presidents are urged to submit a
list of officers and faculty ad
visors to the Pine Knot Office
before November 19.
ALL sororities and fraternities
are to compile and submit an
alphabetical list of members and
pledges before November 19.
'■eceive'th O’Hara to Mammy helped the Phi Mu’s
comnpt r trophy for the fifth consecutive year of
deni^H "■ theme was the “Civil War” which they
Harris) “Gone With The Wind.” (Photo by Ed
An exhibition of painting,
drawing, sculpture and ar
chitectural modular con
structions by Robert M. Lewis
will be on display at Atlantic
Christian College through Dec. 5
in the gallery of the Case Art
Building.
Lewis graduated from
Atlantic Christian in 1957 with a
degree in business ad
ministration and worked for a
number of years as an office
manager for the First Union
National Bank in Wilson. He
returned to Atlantic Christian
and received a major in art in
1967. In 1969 he received a
Master of Fine Arts degree from
the University of North Carolina
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Sigma Phi Epsilon depicted the “Westward Movement” with an
ACC edition of the “Tweetsie Express.” The Sig Ep effort was
rewarded with a first place tie in the Saturday morning event.
(Photo by Ed Harris)