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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MARCH 17, 1972
NUMBER EIGHTEEN
Discount Retail Politics
Howard Lee
Campaigns At ACC
Chapel Hill mayor Howard
Lee brought his Congressional
campaign to Atlantic Christian
College last week. The candidate
for the Second District
congressional nomination called
for a new politics “of the people,
by the people, for the people, and
most importantly with the
people.”
Lee, the first black man ever
elected mayor of a
predominantly white com
munity in North Carohna, said
Arts Festival
The Fifth Festival of Con
temporary Arts will be held on
the campus of Atlantic Christian
College March 16-20, 1972,
Robert Sherman will be guest
lecturer and Otto Henry of East
Carolina University and John
Davis of North Carolina
Wesleyan College will be guest
composers.
Robert Sherman is currently
Program Director of WQXR, the
radio station of the New York
Times. He is responsible for the
supervision of the station’s
entire programming activities,
as well as an active on-the-air
commentator. Early in 1972, he
became the host of a newly
weekly music series for National
Educational Television, called
“Vibrations.”
Since 1964, Sherman has been
a concert critic for The New
York Times, covering events in
all musical spheres. His articles
and reviews have also appeared
in such publications as Saturday
Review, American Record
Guide, High Fidelity, Audio,
American Girl and Hi-Fi Times.
He has written many television
scripts, has contributed chap
ters to “The American Folk
Scene” and “The New York
Times Guide to Listening
Pleasure,” and is co-author,
with Victor Borge, of “My
Favorite Intermissions,”
published by Doubleday.
The A.C.C. Festival of Con
temporary Arts includes the
areas of drama, art, and music.
The opening event will be a
play, “The Firebugs” by Max
Frisch. Presented by the Stage
and Script, under the direction of
Paul Crouch, the event is
scheduled for 8:00 p.m., March
16-18, in Howard Chapel.
Throughout the festival, the
North Carolina Artists Traveling
Exhibition will be on display in
the gallery of the Case Art
Building.
Sunday night, March 19, the
See FESTIVAL Page 4
his campaign was aimed at
giving the people of the Second
District a choice: an opportunity
that may be more important
than wnning the election, he
said.
The Chapel Hill mayor is
challenging veteran U.S. Rep. L.
H. Fountain of Tarboro, dean of
the North Carolina
congressional delegation. Rep.
Fountain is seeking nomination
to an nth term in the May 6
Democratic primary.
At Atlantic Christian College,
one of several stops Lee made
Friday in his all-day tour of
Wilson County, he described his
area campaigning as “discount
retail politics,” going to the
people on a person-to-person
basis, noting that he had gone
into areas where citizens had
never even seen a candidate.
“The time is here for change
in representation," he told a
crowd of some 50 students and
faculty members at the college.
Lee cited the problems the
small farmer faces with the
large farm conglomerates, the
lack of health care services in
parts of the district, and what he
termed a “youth exodus” from
the district.
The candidate said “we can't
let situations like Scotland
Neck,” where 90 per cent of the
Art Exhibit
The North Carolina Artists
Traveling Exhibition is now on
display in the gallery of Case Art
Building at Atlantic Christian
College. The show is comprised
of art work chosen from the 34th
North Carolina Artists Annual
Exhibition which appeared in
December at the North Carolina
Museum of Art in Raleigh.
The traveling exhibition was
selected from the main
exhibition by a nationally noted
panel of judges including Will
Barnet, a New York painter and
teacher; Adelyn Breeskin,
curator of contemporary art.
National Collection of Fine Arts;
and Dean Swanson, chief
curator. Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minn.
The exhibition at Atlantic
Christian College includes 22
paintings, drawings and graphic
works from the main exhibition.
The Case Art Building gallery
is open to the public on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday from 10
a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesday and
Thursday from 12 noon until 5
p.m., and on Tuesday from 7-9
p.m. The traveling exhibition
will be on display through March
24.
high school graduating class
takes a bus north, continue.
"That's one of the biggest busing
problems we have in the Second
District,” he commented.
Lee promised, if elected, to
establish a “visible,'’ well-
staffed Second District office in
the area with knowledgeable
personnel to keep citizens
abreast of situations in the
nation's capital.
Lee said he was “amazed " by
the housing problems here. He
noted the government au
thorized 50,000 housing units for
Vietnam but only some 3,000
units for North Carolina — and
added he was suprised some of
North Carolina's congressional
delegation had not complained.
“We must do a better job,” he
said.
Although not mentioning his
opponent by name, Lee said he
was disturbed by the fact so
many people were hired to "fake
letters and articles” for
distribution to the press and
broadcast media.
He admitted he may utilize
some of these tactics, if elected.
See LEE Page 4
Exec. Bd. And Admin.
Council Hold Confab
B\ ,MM ABHOTT
In what was probably an
unprecedented event at Atlantic
Christian College, the members
of the Administrative Council
and SGA Executive Board held a
lengthy discussion session
Monday night. The meeting,
which was sponsored by the
SGA, was for some reason not
announced to the Board mem-
Ix'rs or members of the student
tx)dy in advance.
The first topic of discussion
was the expenditure of $22,(KK) to
carpet Hines Hall and the Ad
ministration Building. Jimmy
Adams said that he personally
didn’t object to the carpet, but
felt that there was a greater
Absentee Ballot
Procedures
The company which the college has purchased the new carpet
from recently announced that because the college is spending
$22,000 with them, they are loaning to the college a faculty
member for one year. Professor Turdbert Farkle will be servmg
in the psychology department as scholar-in-residence on
problems confronting the aged.
The 1971 session of the General
Assembly passed, for the first
time in North Carolina’s history,
a statute allowing North
Carolina citizens to vote in the
primary election by absentee
ballot. This was an important
breakthrough, but the
procedures for voting by ab
sentee ballot in the primary are
somewhat complicated. To
make sure your vote counts, you
should know these procedures
well, and follow them carefully.
Your first step is to request
from your county Board of
Elections, in writing, an “Af
fidavit and Application for
Absentee Ballot.” This is the
official form on which you must
make your application for a
ballot. The board will not send
you this form if you request it on
the telephone or in person. You
can write for this form between
the dates of April 1 and May 2. A
very brief note will suffice in
requesting this form. Be certain
to state in this request that you
are a member of a political
party, and mention which one.
The “Affidavit and Ap
plication for an Absentee Ballot”
which you have secured must be
returned to your county Board of
Elections between April 1 and
May 2. Any “Affidavit and
Application” received either
before or after these dates may
not be considered by the Board
of Elections. It is very im
portant that you send in you
“Affidavit and Application” as
soon after April 1 as possible
because there may be some
delay in processing it before the
official ballot is actually mailed
to you. And, as discussed in
section B.7, below, the ballot
they send you can only be
returned to your Board of
Elections by U.S. Mail and must
be received by noon on Wed
nesday, May 3. Therefore, to
give the board time to process
your “Affidavit and Ap
plication” and send you a ballot,
and to give yourself time to
complete the ballot and mail it
so it will be received in time, it is
necessary to complete each step
in the process as early as
possible.
When you have completed the
above steps, your board will
send you an official absentee
ballot and an official return
envelope.
,\bsen(ee Ballot
\'otiiig Procedure
Before your mark your ballot,
take the unmarked ballot to a
notary public. In most com
munities you can find a notary
public by looking in the yellow
pages of your telephone direc
tory. If there are no notaries
listed in your local directory,
you might ask officials of your
school where you can find one in
the community. On many
college campuses, there is a
notary public in the Registrar’s
office.
The ballot must be marked in
the presence of the notary
public.
Make sure you fill out the
“voter affidavit” which is one
side of the evelope. This is to
confirm that you marked the
ballots and it reaffirms your
absence from home at the time
of marking your ballot.
Make sure that the notary
public completes his portion of
the “voter affidavit.”
Place the sealed envelope in
the mail so that it will reach your
county Board of Elections not
later than 12:00 noon on Wed
nesday, May 3. Ballots arriving
later will not be counted. Again,
as a practical matter, it would
be much better if you could mail
your absentee ballot so that it
will be received at least a few
days before May 3 to avoid any
possible confusion.
need for money in the lil)rary.
Milton Adams, the Business
Manager of the college repliini
that the library committw* gets
almost as much as they ask for
each year.
•Margie Thorix' wondered why
the students weren't asktnl a-
bout the carpet purchase.
Adams explained that there are
some decisions which have to lx>
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AC Students
At JNCSL
The annual session of the
North Carolina Student
Legislature is meeting this week
in Raleigh with over 40 colleges
and universities begin
represented and over 400
students from across the state in
attendance. The Atlantic
Christian College delegation,
headed by Robbie Steen, has
prepared two extensive and
original environmental bills to
present to the Student
l^egislature.
The first bill is entitled the
“Coastal Zone Act” and it is
designed to protect the virgin
coastal areas of North Carolina
from the pollution which often
results when heavy industry
moves into an area. The bill
states, “While it is the declared
public policy of the State to
encourage the introduction of
new industry into North
Carolina, the protection of the
environment, natural beauty
and recreation potential of the
State is also of great concern.”
The second ACC bill proposes
that the State revert to a system
of returnable bottles for soft
drinks and beer by the end of
1972. The idea behind this bill
according to Steen is to try and
discourage people from
discarding bottles and to keep
industry from having to produce
more and more bottles each
year.
In an interview with Steen, he
told The Collegiate that he was
highly optimistic about our bills
this year noting that neither of
them have been introduced into
the North Carolina Legislature
and that both are very pertinent
to our times. Regarding the
Student legislature, Steen said
that in the past it was dominated
by the delegations from Duke,
Carolina and Wake Forest but
this is gradually changing and
that this year’s president is from
Methodist College. Steen also
pointed out that this year more
than ever, the State Legislature
will take note of what happens at
SSL because it is an election
year.
ACC’s delegation according to
Steen, is small and very capable.
Those attending from ACC are:
Robbie Steen, Jim Abbott, Tom
Kawana, Craig Rowan, Margie
Thorpe, Nancy Livermon, and
John McDaniel.