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NUMBER NINETEEN
Elections Are Approaching
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Elections are rapidly ap
proaching the Atlantic Christian
College scene and the student
body will once again be faced
with the crucial task of selecting
its officials. Campaigns are
running with keen competition in
nearly every office.
This week the Collegiate is
featuring each candidate with
their reasons for seeking office.
It is your job to read, ponder and
select the candidate of your
choice.
Elections are to be held March
29-30. Be sure to pick up your
voting cards and drop by the
polls with your I.D. You will
have to live with your decision or
indecision.
Dennis Adams
As candidate for the Office of
?resident of the SGA I, Dennis
Ijams, feel that I am qualified
iiii would like to serve this
iffldent body to the best of my
iiility.
In the past two years I have
ffved on the Men’s Inter-
lormitory Council as Vice
President and in this past year
IS a representative to the
auncil. Also this year I have
!tld the office of President of
Jackney Hall and for two years
ave represented Hackney Hall
a the Dorm Judicial Board.
There are changes I would like
jisee here at ACC. One is that I
ielieve there should be some
lype of forum held between the
sliidents and representatives of
llie SGA. In these forums the
itiidents could get a direct
ifportas to what the SGA has or
las not accomplished and at
sichmeetings the students could
I (oice their opinions on campus
' issues and call for action on the
[liartoftlie SGA on these issues.
I Also at Atlantic Christian
I lere is a desire at present for
Ijicial reform in order that a
I student might be tried by his
'iow students. If elected I
jiwld like to represent the
shdents on such issues.
I As for on campus drinking as
I fc students’ representative I
nuld present such a bill on their
liehalf.
I I would be very honored to
i»rvethe student body of ACC if
1 am elected and I ask your
; support on March 29 and 30.
Telephone
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At long last Atlantic Christian
Dill receive a new telephone
sjslem which has long been
Mded, In an interview with
Milton Adams, business
Mnager, he stated that “the
modern automatic system’ will
put in use on the campus
March 25, and students will first
w the systenv upon arrival on
®inpus after Spring recess.”
Adan\s said that a new
fcphone extension directory
i *'11 be available at each ex-
I teion on campus. On the cover
slieet of the directory will be
instructions concerning the
1 operations of the system, to
®ve as a guide for students,
Ministration, and faculty,
j noted that the new
Rectory will be printed and
I fctributed to the college phones
l the students return to
'‘®ses March 29.
the system will involve three
I numbers. Adams
'Marked that “the procedures
I ® using the ‘modern automatic
Bobby Baucom
I am Bobby Baucom, and I’d
like to officially announce my
candidacy for President of the
Student Government
Association. As a candidate I
would like to express my views
on the following problems that
we will face in the future and
should receive the most at
tention in the coming year.
(1) I feel that we should look
into women’s rules and
regulations and bring them to a
more contemporary position in
an effort to avoid some of the
problems we have had this past
year.
(2) We should have a Student
Judicial Board with some
faculty and administration in an
advisory position. This board
would act as a court of appeals
over the present Men’s In
terdorm Judicial Board and the
proposed Women’s Interdorm
Judicial Board.
(3) The jurisdiction of the
school as far as “Off Campus”
housing (fraternity houses,
apartments, and person’s
owning or living in their own
homes) should be investigated.
(4) I will continue to work
towards the passing of an
Alcohol Reform Bill.
(5) We should work with the
administration to make official
the naming of Hamlin Center.
This has already been passed by
the SGA.
(6) We will have student,
faculty and administration open
caucuses to air our views with
each other. I would like all the
students to know I am not a
“Patsy” to the administration,
but a student for the students.
My doors will always be open to
you and I want to represent you.
You give me your support and I
will give you mine.
Jim Reaser
The time for change is now. It
will be no easy road but if you
the student will help the Student
Government Association it can
be done. Some of the reforms
that can be accomplished with
your help is a student voice on
the Administrative Council,
changes in women’s rules, and a
reform in the present judicial
system, I will also strive to have
more on-campus activities.
Among my qualifications are
Men’s Interdormitory
Association President, Student
Center Committee Chairman,
Elections Committee, En
tertainment Committee, and
Stage and Script Treasurer.
For too many of us attending
college today, at Atlantic
Christian, as well as at colleges
and universities all across the
nation, education has ceased to
be an experience of — LIVING
AND LEARNING. Because of a
concern for this lack of living
and learning experience, I
decided to seek the office of
president of the SGA.
The lock-step structure of past
times must give way to a system
in which students will progress
from year to year throughout the
system - WITHOUT THE
CONSTANT HAZARDS AND
FRUSTRATIONS OF
FAILURE. The concern of
system’ are simple, and for the
average dormitory student there
are three important things
which will be basically different
from the old system;
)1) All dormitory phones will
dial their own local calls, and
will do this by first dialing
seven for an outside line and
then the number desired.
(2) All other phones (ad
ministration, faculty,
maintenance) can dial local
calls by dialing nine for a dial
tone, and then the number
desired.
(3) All college phones can dial
each other directly, for
example, if a girl from Hilley
Hall wants to dial Hackney
Hall, she dials the extension
number of Hackney Hall
listed in the directory.
Adams went on to say thst the
new system will involve only one
main college telephone number.
All long distance calls, calls
from Wilson, and the surroun
ding areas will come into the
switchboard by dialing the
number 237-3161. The swit
chboard operator will then
connect the party to the
designated extension.
Adams noted that in the
system any instrument on
campus will be able to transfer a
call on campus. The business
manager remarked that after
the switchboard operator leaves
at 11 p.m., a switch will be
turned by the operator to
transfer automatically all calls
coming in on 237-3161 to one
designated phone on campus.
The operator of this phone will
then transfer calls directly to
desired areas on the campus.
Adams concluded that dor
mitory students will not be able
to make long distance calls on
the system, and will be required
to use the pay telephone sta
tions. “We hope that through the
purchase of the ‘modern
automatic system’, we will have
the most modern and efficient
communications network for our
college community,” stated
Adams.
Kathy Hartenstine
today’s students must be
enhanced and must be given the
opportunity to expand. Through
new methods and competent
leaders in the SGA we must be
given more power in dealing
with our personal lives, as well
as our education as we live in
this college community.
In the future, knowledge will
not be enough. Merely
developing cool, objective young
men and women with factual
knowledge as the basis of their
experience will not necessarily
produce educated people — NOT
ONLY MUST OUR IDEAS BE
EXPRESSED AND HEARD
BUT ACTION MUST BE
TAKEN!
As your SGA president, I shall
listen to your ideas and will
make sure they are heard. Being
a presidential candidate for the
SGA, I would like to let you know
how I stand on a few major
campus issues.
Drinking by the college
student is considered a serious
problem by the administration,
trustees, some parents and other
members of the college com
munity. Many associate
fraternity life with only drinking
and hell-raising. Those believing
this must be made aware of the
fact that a great opportunity in
leading, following and managing
an organization is the main
fraternity function.
Drinking is no more a problem
to the fraternity system than it is
to society. The real nroblem
arises when unrealistic re
strictions are placed upon the
student. The unrealistic drinking
rule at Atlantic Christian has the
effect of driving alcoholic
consumption underground. It
then becomes the thing to do
simply because we have been
forbidden to do it. Students are
told that they are on their own in
college and college helps one
grow and take care of himself,
then the college leads the man
by the hand for four years and
tells him how, when and where
he can or can’t drink. If the
college continues to treat the
students like children it cannot
expect them to act like adults.
As your SGA president, I in
tend to continue the work on
declaring the fraternity houses
as off-campus living, therefore
giving them the right to have
alcohol in the house. I plan to go
a step further by investigating
the possibility of students living
in the dormitories being given
the right to have alcohol in their
rooms.
An example of misuse of
Students may pick up voting
cards at Student Center this
week at the desk.
power by a group numbering
thirty-three is the recent
decision concerning the naming
of buildings on campus.
The petition to name the
student center after Dr. Hamlin
is one of the greatest campus
concerns which you have ex-
oressed. Along with you, I too
signed the petitions and was
greatly disappointed by the
reply we received from the
trustees. It is discouraging to see
such a dedicated man not be
given some recognition for the
dedication of his life to the
college. The student body should
be proud of itself in taking the
initiative to name the student
center after Dr. Hamlin.
An area in which I feel the
administration and faculty exert
unnecessary authority is in the
field of discipline.
As was stated in the last
Collegiate issue, one of the main
bills on which the SGA might
work next year would be the
establishment of a new judicial
system. I believe this type of
power must be taken from the
administration and faculty, who
presently control the discipline
committee, and place the power
with the students. I intend to
work on this as a proposal to the
new SGA board so that students
can be tried by their peers and
have the right to appeal any
decision to a higher court. I
believe a change is needed.
The SGA is a government body
with a purpose. The SGA is a
fraternity of all students
working together to hold fast to
all things which are good and
true in college life and to turn
away from every motive and
action which might lessen
esteem for character which
would result in the weakening
and breaking of the ties of
friendship and progress.
I believe the SGA has
responsibilities. As your SGA
president I intend to uphold
these responsibilities: to uphold
high ideals, to develop as a
group worker and team worker,
to develop leadership and
responsibility, to have
imagination, to believe in order
and to work for progress.
It is my hope that on March 29
and 30 you will go to the polls and
cast your ballot for me, Kathy
Hartenstine, as your next SGA
president, believing as I do in
making Atlantic Christian
College a LIVING AND
LEARNING EXPERIENCE.