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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, SEPTMEBER 23, 1976
NUMBER THREE
Student Activity Fee Examined
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is
the earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of
his own nature.
By SPENCER SMITH
A check in the amount of
$23,746.00 was written Monday
by the business office of the
college authorizing payment to
the Student Government
Association. The sum represents
that part of the $29.00-per-
semester activity fee which is
designated for Student
Activities, and is $15.50 of the
total fee paid by each of the 1,532
full-time students presently
enrolled at ACC. As stated in the
current college catalogue on
page 97, the activity fee is
divided among Student
Activities, Athletics, and Con
certs and Lectures. The Athletic
Council receives $11.00 out of
each activity fee, which for this
semester will result in $16,852.00
toward intercollegiate athletics.
The remaining $2.50 of each fee
is appropriated for the Concert
and Lecture Committee,
providing a working income of
$3,830.00 this semester.
Milton Adams, business
manager for the college, in
dicated that a usual four percent
drop in enrollment in the
transition from the fall semester
to the spring semester would
result in a similar drop in ac
tivity fee revenues. As a result
the SGA can reasonably plan a
First Of 9 Part Series
ACC Completes Self Study
EDITOR: For the past
eighteen months, Atlantic
Christian College has been in
volved in a thorough-going self
study. The self-study will be
presented to the Southern
Association representative, Dr.
John Allen, when he visits the
campus, along with a staff of
nine, on October 3-6. The
Collegiate thought it appropriate
to inform the campus com
munity of the study’s findings
through a publication of its
recommendations for im
provement. Following is the
statement of purpose of the
study.
In the spring of 1%5, Dr.
Charles B. Vail visited the
campus of Atlantic Christian
College to initiate the
Institutional Self-Study
Program of 1967. A reasonable
assessment of the ten years
since indicates a period of
dynamic and responsible
change. Despite the untoward
pressures that confront the
private liberal arts college,
Atlantic Christian College has
responded with a decade of
growth in which the ef
fectiveness of its educational
program has been increased
within a framework of fiscal
responsibility, responsiveness to
the needs of its constituency and
a reassessment of the purpose
and role of the college.
While economic realities have
limited the degree of im
provement, they have also
prevented a proliferation of
courses and programs that could
not meet the qualitative im
provement desirable and
necessary for an academic in
stitution. The changing needs of
our constituency have made it
feasible to add our new depart
ment with appropriate majors.
These are: (DA Department of
Psychology, formerly a division
within the Department of
Education and Psychology; (2)
A Department of Mathematics,
formerly a division within the
Department of Science and
Mathematics; (3) A Department
of History, formerly a division
within the Department of Social
Studies; (4) A Department of
Nursing, a new program which
had its first graduates in May,
1974. The faculty has doubled in
number with a steady influx of
younger and well-trained
scholars. The student body has
grown from 1,447 to 1,710. Since
1965, nine major building
programs have been completed,
and major expenditures on
campus land-use and land
scaping have altered the campus
environment. The question of
institutional identity made a
major examination of our
purposes desirable, and a
broadly representative com
mittee undertook this study in
1972. The statement was sub
sequently adopted, and it ap
pears in the current bulletin of
the college.
The evaluation of the in
stitution during this period has
not been neglected. In addition
to the structures provided for by
our basic schema of
organization, we have had the
counsel of outside agencies that
offer accreditation of divisions
or professional programs. But
the Institutional Self-Stuty
Program that we are proposing
will serve as considerably more
than a routine investigation of
the total impact of this decade of
change. While we are both
cognizant of our responsibility to
our general constituency and
aware of the realities of the
increasing competition for
students, the faculty and ad
ministration share a com
mitment to education ef
fectiveness that makes the Self-
Study an appropriate un
dertaking. It is time to assess not
only the more visible signs of
progress but the subtler ways in
which institutions of learning
achieve a higher degree of
academic integrity.
Despite the malaise that we
sense in many quarters of higher
education we believe that we are
in a favorable situation that
supports a realistic optimism.
Faculty concern for the ob
jectives of the institution is
highly visible.
We foresee the Self-Study as
an opportunity to enrich the
quality of the academic life of
this community.
budget for the entire school year
in the approximate amtxjnt of
$46,542.16, plus any surplus
remaining from the Hscal year
ending August 31, 1976. Matt
Mancini, treasurer for the SGA,
said there remains about $2,000
in the SGA checking account in
surplus funds. However, an
audit for last year t>eing made at
this time will determine the
actual amount.
The Athletic Council will
receive approximately $33,029.92
from student activity fees this
year, and the Concert and
Lecture Committee will work
with $7,506.80, or thereabout.
The $29.00-per-semester fee is
nearly twice what it was ten
years ago, in 1967-68 when the
fee was $15.00. The Athletic
Council and the SGA received
out of each fee five and ten
dollars, respectively. Five years
ago, in 1971-72, the fee was
$21.50, which provided $7.50 for
the Athletic Council, $12.00 for
the SGA, and $2.00 for the
Concert and Lecture Committee.
The Athletic Council has ex
perienced a 120 percent increase
in student funding in the ten
years, with the SGA ex
periencing a 55 pt>rcenl increase
in the same period The Concert
and Lecture Committee has
received increases in the
amount of 25 percent since it w as
first funded with Money from
activity fees in the 1969-70 school
year.
Last year, with an ap
propriated budget of nearly
$47,000, including a surplus of
$2,000 from the previous year,
the SGA designated the
following amounts for the
budgeted organizations listed
below:
Bulldog Power Pep Club,
$«0.00
Campus Christian
Association, $1,300.00.
Cheerleaders, $896 26.
Classes, $1,050.00.
Collegiate, $6,202.00.
Entertainment Committee,
$17,285.00.
Executive Board, $4,795.00.
Pine Knot, $13,331.74.
Hamlin Student Center,
$1,300.00.
Afro-American Awareness
Society, $750.00.
The audit being prepared will
reveal how the year accorded
with the above figures.
Noted Philosopher Visits AC Campus
Dr. Peter Bertocci, noted
philosopher and theologian, will
present a series of lectures at
Atlantic Christian College, Sept.
27-29.
Considered a highly versatile
scholar, he has served as the
Borden Parker Bowne Professor
of Philosophy at Boston
University since 1953. He
received the B.A. degree from
Boston University in 1931, and
the M.A. degree from Harvard
in 1932, Three years later he was
awarded the Ph.D. degree from
Boston University after spen
ding a year at work on his
dissertation at the University of
Cambridge in England.
In addition to addressing
various classes at ACC, Dr,
Bertocci will speak to the college
faculty on, “Education and a
Vision of Excellence," at a
dinner on the evening of Sept. 27.
He will present a lecture which
will ber open to the public on
Sept. 28, at 8 p.m., in Hines Hall,
rooms 207-208. Topic of the
lecture will be “Can Happiness
Be the Ideal of Human Life?"
There will be no charge for
admission.
Dr. Bertocci has been a
Fullbright Research Scholar on
two occasions — during the 1950-
51 academic year in Italy, and in
1960-61 in India. He has
published articles in
“Psychology," “Education,"
“Ethics,” “Religion,” and
“Philosophy”
Among the numerous books he
has published are: “Is God for
Heal," (1971); “The Person God
Is," (1970); “Sex, Love, and the
Person," (1967); “Free Will,
Responsibility, and Grace,”
(1957); and “Religion as
Creative Insecurity," (1958).
Photographer
At AC
The photographer from Smith
Studio will be here beginning
next week, September 27 -
October 8 to take portraits for
the 1976-77 yearbook. Men should
wear ties (senior men coats and
ties are preferred) and women
should dress appropriately (this
includes senior women since
there will be no drapes.) Please
follow the schedule below and
note the location for each week.
The photographer will begin at 9
a.m. and conclude at 5 p.m.
September 27-October 1
(Hardy Alumni Hall)
Monday & Tuesday Seniors
Wednesday & Thursday Juniors
Friday Faculty & Makeups
October 4-October 8
(Harper Hall)
Monday & Tuesday Sophomores
Wednesday & Thursday Fresh-
men
Friday Makeups
The Entertainment Committee
of
Atlantic Christian College
—Presents—
K. C. and the Sunshine Band
Tuesday Nite Oct. 5, 1976
8:00 Wilson Gym
Tickets: S4.00 with I. D.
Student Center
Only one ticket per person
with I.D.