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The executive Board of the
Cooperative Association went
into committee as a whole
Monday night along with some
40 interested ACC students to
discuss the recent protest and
the conditions in the cafeteria.
The number of students ob
serving the meeting was the
largest reported this year.
The Board approved a motion
that “the newly-formed college
standing committee appointed to
investigate the cafeteria food
service be recommended to
submit a report to the Executive
Board at regular weekly
meeting during the spring
semester of 1965, by the middle
of the semester, and that they al
so include comments on the ex
plicit improvements. At the time
of reporting, the Executive
Board will relay this report in
full for consideration to the
student body. And that until this
time, the Executive Board
recommends to student body
that they refrain from protests.
The new standing committee
consists of the college business
manager, the dean if students, a
faculty member, the cafeteria
dietician, and four ACC resident
students. A similar committee
was appointed last year to study
the food service in the cafeteria.
Approximately 200 ACC
students protested food service
in the cafeteria last Thursday
evening in a demonstration that
lasted more than an hour.
Opinion
Letters to the Editor
quantity, and the manner in
which food is served, excessive
line breaking as well as long
waiting lines, and the attitude of
the cafeteria staff.
Student dissatisfaction with
food service at the college began
last spring, when complaints
similar to those lodged Friday
morning were brought before
the school officials.
Following Thursday night’s
demonstration, the Executive
Board of the co-op met with Dr.
Wenger.
The board later volunteered to
clean up the food and trays left
by the protesting students.
Students began their
demonstration at approximately
5:45 p.m. and continued to
protest food service until 7 p.m.
when they dispersed at the
request of Dr. Wenger.
During the demonstration
students outside the cafeteria
chanted, “We Are Like Birds
Standing in the Wilderness,” and
other spirituals.
No violence erupted during the
demonstration, however, the
glass covering on a menu
schedule was broken during the
protest. A disturbance did occur
in Hackney Dormitory near
midnight but was quickly
silenced after the Wilson police
were summoned. (Collegiate,
December 11, 1964)
To: Captain Briggs Petway
c-o USS o’ Fools
0 Captain, my Captain,
I sincerely appreciate vour
genuine desire to save my soul
and to be a lighthouse, guiding
me across the seas of life. 1 also
appreciate the two years that
you have spent caring for us. But
now, like the government that
you often rebuke, you have
stabbed us in the back; calling
us "ungrateful", blind”,
“stupid", “fools". Kt tu Briggs?
0 Captain, there in the crow's
nest with your head high in the
clouds, what did we do to
deserve your wrath? We are
here! We do care that you wish
to give up! And we are grateful
for that!
Why, my Captain, must your
dreams interfere with mine? I
was so intent on becoming a god
when I graduate, and living high
atop a mountain in Orange
County. Then you say that our
education is not making us any
wiser. 0, how true! Education,
at its best, can only make us
educated, and wisdom does not
necessarily follow.
When it is time, dear Captain,
for you and your ship to depart
Greeks
Sifimn
Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority
is proud to announce they have
three new pledges. They are Jan
Edmundson, Brenda Kirkman,
and Brenda Taylor.
Nancy Cleveland
Doug Marlette
Charlotte Observer
I Dr. Arthur Wenger, president
I of the college, was present at a
special student assembly last
Friday morning to discuss
student grievances over the food
services. An estimated 400
students attended the meeting.
The demonstration Thursday
">^t was triggered when the
cafeteria served hickory-
smoked hamburger steaks for
dinner.
Port Wilson for Orange County
and Chapel Hill, may I suggest
that you take an extended
"shore leave’’ in Wake Countv
and Dix Hill. While you are
there, glue your head back
together, then go out and get
yourself on the right track
As for me, 0 Petway, "I am
the captain of my soul ” and I
shall name my own ship and
choose my own course. Though it
is “contrary to my nature " to
give advice, I will, in your case,
make an exception. Don't give
up the ship!
David Arnold
OPEN LETTER TO BKIGGS
PETWAY:
■\'our writing has infuriated
me before, but I neglected to
write for fear of encouraging
you. 1 was hoping that if I
ignored you, you would go away.
Oh well!
1 wish to commend you on your
astute observation that 'No one
... cares whether 1 make my way
to Orange County or Linville
Gorge. " I have been reading
your “Romantic dreams" and
“pastoral accounts" for six
months now, but Thursday's
editorial (and I use the term
loosely) finally exhibited
something profound. That is: NO
ONE CARES.
If by saying that no one cares
you mean that you have not
received accolades from like-
minded idealists, perhaps you
would like to pick one of the
following:
1) Far out!
2) That Briggs really has his
head together
31 Heavy, man'
There Satisfied now "
1 think a farm in Orange
County IS fine if that’s what
you want But 1 would prefer not
to read about it. least of all on
the Editorial page of the campus
newspapt'r
Although not interested in
organized religion, your non-
comparison to Jesus Christ
strikes me as interesting It may
lx‘ true that few understixxi the
parables of Christ, but it is also
worthwhile to mention that what
is remembered alxiut him is his
actions rather than his words In
other words, don’t keep talking
about your pastoral setting, quit
school and take off!
Apparently, you feel that the
system is not functioning I
agree wholeheartedly. But as
you say, America is made up of
millions of individuals. What you
propose is to band them together
to crush all the evils of society
Has it occurred to you that these
people just might be too in
dividualistic to follow your lead'.’
That is where the system is
inadequate; you can’t please all
of the people all of the time.
I truly regret that 1 must
champion the cause of realism
against an idealist, for I am as
idealistic as the next pseudo
sophisticated student who'd
rather be in Chapel Hill or
Linvolle Gorge, or anywhere
“finding himself ". 1 hope that
once you do find yourself (can
you see the forest for the trees?)
you will realize that the only way
around the system is through it.
Jeff Spivey
201 N Kincaid Ave
Sig Ep
The Brotherhood of Sigma Phi
Epsilon recently initiated Steve
Holzbach, “Beef" Stakes and
installed Rickey Byrd, A1 Davis,
Flip Epperson, Steve Floyd, Lee
Holt, Phil Hurd, Ray Jackson,
David Richards and Clevie
Sawyer as pledges. The
Brotherhood would like to thank
all those who have supported our
league-leading basketball team
and is very much looking for
ward to the competition in
Winter Sports Day and Greek
Week.
Sig Ep Sam
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drummer and manager tor
Thelonious Monk. He has ap
peared in clubs, jazz festivals
and on various television shows.
He was featured with the Sonny
Rollins Group, the Johnny
Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw"
Davis Quintet, as well as with
Nina Simone and Woody Her
man.
Cindentlla:
An ()f)ern
The National Opera Company
will present Gioachino Rossini's
■‘Cinderella" in English on
Thursday, March 6 at 8 p.m. in
Stewart Theatre, N. C. State
University.
Rossini's “Cinderella" strays
somewhat from its source in
Grimm's Fairy Tales. Cin
derella's stop-sisters (Clorinda
and Tisbe) are hiliarous musical
portraits in the opera, but the
usual Fairy Godmother is
replaced by the figure of
Alidoro, a wise philosopher and
teacher of Prince Ramiro.
The National Opera Company
was founded in 1948 by A J.
Fletcher, a Raleigh attorney and
businessman. Fletcher hoped to
create audiences for opera by
presenting works in English and
to give experience to young
artists.
For reservations call the
Stewart Theatre Box Office, 737-
3105.
Doug’s work has appeared in Time.
Newsweek, and the National Observer
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