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The C^ia:egiate
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pUBL^ fc/ MAKtH 5, 1970 NUMBER SEVENTE^
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proposal Meets Final Defeat
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Board Permits Student, Faculty
Ex -Officio Status On Committee
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The Alantic Christian College
Board of Trustees, at its mid
year meeting held here Feb. 25,
took action to approve a ten
tative operating budget in ex
cess of $2.7 million, rejected a
bid for liberalization of the
college’s existing regulations
concerning use of intoxicants,
and expressed deep concern
over the gronmg crisis faced by
private church-related colleges
with regards to enrollment and
federal financial assistance.
The board nominated four new
persons for membership to its
body, voted to award an
honorary doctorate at the
college’s May commencement,
and approved a change in
college bylaws to permit student
and faculty representation on a
non-voting basis at meetings of
the board’s Education Com
mittee as well as plenary
sessions of the board.
The trustees approved a
tentative operating budget of
$2,701,000 for the 1970-71
academic year which reflects an
overall increase of some $179,500
over the current year’s budget.
The board will take final action
on the budget at its regular
October meeting.
I ll'sspring (almost) and the young girl’s fancy turns to thoughts
I «f..,Libby Castelloe seems to reflect the carefree attitude that
' kas captured the campus in the past few gloriously beautiful
I days, (Photo by Ed Harris)
Executive Board Finally Ends
Struggle Over SSL Delegation
~ ' ■" —Hav the orieinal was written in a sarcastic vein
...V Executive Board heard
1«final appeal over the SSL
Megation and approved a
' rased edition of the tentative
iget for 1971.
Sophomore President Jim
■ttott renewed the SSL issue
nith a request to the chair that
le action taken by the board to
Konsider the delegation be
ieclared invalid. SGA President
teWilkins overruled the appeal
Uhe opinion that Abbott was
, ijing to declare the meeting in
I »kich the reconsideration was
' Hade invalid. After various
ftmpts to straighten out the
■lisiinderstanding, the board
ftieid the chair.
t responded by moving
Rescind the action taken at the
*4 meeting. He argued that
motion to reconsider the
Ration had been out of order.
5*h a motion could be made
Convocations
^scheduled
Two dates in the Spring
Convocation Listing have been
i due to conflicts in the
ipjearing artists’ schedules,
tlie convocation slated for
^Pril 28 has been moved to 11
*'®., March 17 in Wilson Gynv-
®siurn,Mr. AWin Toffler, social
whose latest articles
appearing in the February
nil March issues of this year’s
%l)oy,remains as the speaker
* March 17.
tkeconcert,“Music of India,”
set tor April 1 has
rescheduled for April Sat
in Howard Chapel.
Wease make thse changes on
coOTocation listing; move
W 28 to March 17 and April 1
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only on the same day the original
motion is passed. A reference
was made by Abbott to the letter
written by Kenneth O’Connell in
the Feb. 26 edition of the
Collegiate. In this letter
O’Connell remarked on many
previously unmentioned
omissions from the delegation
such as independents, women
and business majors. Abbott
used this letter to point out the
fact that no independent from
the delegation will be on campus
next year. O’Connell retailiated
by pointing out that the article
Candidates
For SGA
Announced
The deadline for filing for Stu
dent Government Association
offices was midnight, March 2.
The following is the official list
of candidates; filing for
president, Joe Harwood; for the
office of vice-president, Kathy
Anderson and Imogene Thomas;
for the office of secretary, Joyce
ff)T
was written in a sarcastic vein
and taunted Abbott for “not
understanding the meaning of
the word ‘no’.”
When the question was called,
four people voted in favor of
rescinding the action as the
motion was defeated.
Treasurer Kenneth O’Connell
presented the board with the
tentative budget for next year.
This budget specifically omitted
any appropriation for con
vocations. Wilkins explained
that this was due to current
actions in the Convocation Coor-
dinting Committee. He also
informed the board that the
appropriation of student
funds for required convocations
could be a matter of debate.
Most of the money that would
have gone to convocations was
delegated to the Entertainment
Committee.
No appropriation was made
for the Student Center Com
mittee due to the simple fact that
they had not spent any of the $240
allotted to them for this year.
Dean Whitehurst explained to
the board that the committee did
not know it had an allocation.
Panhellenic President Julie Artz
moved that the allocation to the
- '^^Arnmittee be
There will «e no mcrease in
tuition at Atlantic Christian
College for the 1970-71 academic
year. The board, upon recom
mendation of its Finance
Committee, took action to in
crease its student activity fee $3
for the 1970-71 academic year.
The present activity fee is $40
per nine-month term. The new
fee will be $43 per nine-month
term.
The board ruled there would
be no change in the college’s
present regulations concerning
the possession or use of in
toxicants on the college campus,
on premises under its control, or
at any college functions. The
ruling came following a report
given by an ad hoc committee
comprised of students, faculty,
administrators and trustees.
The regulations had been under
careful study for a number of
months. The study came as
result of a request by the ACC
Student Government
Association that the college lift
its ban on drinking alcoholic
beverages at all off-campus
college sponsored events and at
events held in the college alumni
hall.The SGA request did
stipulate that the events in
question be under strict college
supervision. Following the
board’s ruling, students and
committee members were
commended by the board for
their interest and extensive
study on the matter.
In a separate action, the board
ruled that possession or use of
illegal drugs would be
prohibited.
Four persons were nominated
for election to the ACC Board of
Trustees. They were John M. M.
Gregory of Wilson, president of
Imperial Tobacco Co.; Vance T.
Forbes of Wilson, president of
Forbes Transfer Co.; Dr. Ray
Silverthorne of Washington(N.
C.), gynecologist; and Thomas
L. Law of Ra,eigh, minister of
St. Paul’s Christian Church.
Members nominated for re-
election for three-year terms
were E. J. Wimberly of Colum
bia, S. C.; Paul Southard of
Stokesdale; T. J. Hackney Jr., of
Wilson; George H. Adams of
Wilson; Carl L. Stewart of
Winston-Salem; William D.
Schubert of New York, N. Y.;
and R. P. Watson Jr., of Wilson.
Retiring from the board were
David L. Alexander of Kinston
(ministers serving on the board
are ineligible to succeed
themselves), Zeb E. Brinson of
Tarboro, John W. Cowell of
Bayboro, and Elbert S. Peel of
Williamston. Cowell and Peel
were recommended for election
as “Trustees Emeritus” at the
annual meeting of the board in
October, 1970.
All nominations are to be
submitted to the General
Assembly of the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) in
North Carolina meeting in
Raleigh, April 24-26, 1970, for
election.
See PROPOSAL Page 2
Mythmakers Is Topic
Of Fulcher’s Address
mnWprs and science fictione
for tne oince
, a on ycock and student Center Committee be
reinstated and that his allocation
be taken from the Executive
tentative
Jim Reaser.
Also Ricky Stewart and Joyce
Copeland are vying for the
editorship of the Collegiate.
As of the deadline no one had
filed for the editor’s position on
the Pine Knot or for business
manager for either the
Colleigate or Pine Knot
Board budget. The tentative
budget was approved with this
amendment. This budget will be
used as a guideline for next
year’s board.
A motion by Jeff Chase to
request to the City of Wilson that
‘ j;-o^Honal signs at the
IClllCJgCA
- olleigate or Pine Knot.
the street directional signs at the
wi begm Monday, March 9 and Roundtree and Wood-
will run through Tuesday, Wood-
have through street was
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March 17. Election dates have
been set for Wednesday and
Thursday, March 18-19. Winning
candidates will be installed at
the April 7 convocation.
ard a througn
channeled to the administrative
council.
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By JIM ABBOTT
Dr. Rodney Fulcher is a
Professor in the Department of
Christianity and Culture at St.
Andrews College. Dr, Fulcher
visited our campus on Tuesday
and in a very provocative
presentation entitled, “The
Mythmakers,” confronted those
in attendance with some updated
thoughts on contemporary
culture.
At the outset of his talk, Dr.
Fulcher noted that the “new
sound” in pop music was
initiated into society with the
production of the Beatles’ “Sgt.
Pepper” album. It was at this
juncture in music said Fulcher
that the dancing audience sat
down and began to listen to the
lyrics of John Lennon and Paul
McCartney. This was the stage,
observed Fulcher in which
music was transformed into
poetry and the’‘singing poets”
began to take on *he image of
“Mythmakers.” In pursuing his
reference to the Beatles,
Fulcher played for the audience
one of the songs from their most
recent album, “Abbey Road.”
The song entitled, “Here Comes
The Sun,” in which Fulcher
pointed out, the Beatles using
the Sun as a prevalent myth
image were trying to plug us
back into that cosmic power that
lies behind the process of
creation and renewal.
In elaborating on the function
of a myth, Fulcher noted that he
felt it was to bring order out of
chaos. He went on to say that the
various singing poets, movie
makers, and science fictioneers
are merely trying to construct
new myths to give meaning to
our generation, and that they are
able to achieve this by looking at
life in a “large and whole way.”
“The Bible,” said Fulcher
through the myths of the
creation, the fall, and the in
carnation tries to bring order
out-of the larger chaos of the
human experience.
Judy Collins, a contemporary
folk singer provided the next
example of Fulcher’s myth-
maker. In her song, “Both Sides
Now” Fulcher claimed that
Collins was posing illusion as an
alternative to reality. The
concept of the fairytale love
versus cool disillusionment and
the ups and downs of life all
combined to substantiate this
claim.
Fulcher’s final observation
pertained to the odyssey theme
which belongs to the myth of
many cultures and was so
prevalent in the popular
musicals of the 1960s in which
the myth doesn’t tell us what is
happening but rather what can
happen. He cited the musical,
“Man of LaMancha” in which
the Quioxtic or odyssey myth
projects the notion of the quest
as sending man beyond the
realities of his immediate ex
perience.
Dr. Fulcher concluded by
appealing to the audience to turn
and listen again to the Myth
makers and learn how to di'eam
the impossible dreams for our
time.