p^lSHED WEEKLY
Good
Evening!
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, JANUARY 20, 1977
BONECHILLING COLD
Wilson has experienced
record low temperatures the
past few days; temperatures
have dipped to -1 degree F.
The extreme cold is expected
to continue through the
weekend.
Folk Ballet
The Yugoslavian Folk
Ballet will perform tomorrow
night at 8:00 p.m. in the
auditorium of Wilson Fike
High School, There is no ad
mission charge.
Speaker On Rape
On Tuesday, Jan. 25, from
2:00 to 4:00 p.m., the
Psychology Department will
present Frederic Storaska and
his program, “How to Say No
to a Rapist — And Survive.”
® Mr. Storaska will present his
program in Hardy Alumni
w Hall.
Gamma Delta Iota
1 Gamma Delta Iota will meet
nij tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the
Trustee Room of Hardy
Alumni Hall.
ACC Jaycees
The Atlantic Christian
College Jaycees are spon
soring a “School Spirit
Award” to be given to the
i(|organization that best
ge exemplifies school spirit at the
Campbell-ACC basketball
fokame on Jan. 31st. If there are
ttiany questions, see Eddie Essa
or Jimmy Eubanks.
Alpha Omega
The Alpha Omega
Fellowship will meet tonight
at 7:00 in the Old Gym.
Jaycee Jelly Drive
> The North Carolina Jaycees
jre selling jelly to help raise
f unds for the N.C. Jaycee
' Burn Center to be located in
Chapel Hill. Your support
would be greatly appreciated.
Fellowship of
Christian Athletes
The Fellowship of Christian
Athletes will meet Sunday,
Jan. 23, at 9 p.m. in Wilson
Gym.
Financial Aid
Students who are presently
receiving financial aid and-or
students wishing to make
application for the 1977-78
school year, can pick up the
required forms in the
financial Aid office. Basic
Grant applications are also
available now. Students must
feapply for financial aid every
year.
Concerts At State
N.C, State’s Stewart
meatre will host a Jazz-Pop
feries this spring from Jan, 5
to March 22, Dave Brubeck
MU appear on Tues., Jan. 25.
Ramsey Lewis will be
featured on Sat., Feb. 19.
Oizzy Gillespie will perform
® Wed., March 2, and The
Crusaders will appear on
rues., March 22. Per
formances start at 7 and 9:30
NUMBER THIRTEEN
By Peter
Collegiate
Chamness—The
Winters’ Beauty
The setting sun sharply outlines the intricate and complex bran-
chwork of a winter tree.
Tuition Tax Break Dies
in Congress
By CURT KOEHLER
(CPS) — Strapped by tuition
and cost of living increases,
many students and their
families were looking for a tax
break last summer to provide
relief from the high cost of going
to school.
Congress was rewriting the
tax laws and one move con
sidered — and, at one point,
approved by the Senate — was a
tuition tax credit. This proposal
would have allowed taxpayers to
subtract a small portion of the
money they spent on tuition and
fees — initially, up to $100 —
from their tax bill.
The House didn’t include the
proposal in their tax bill,
however, and the credit was
eventually dropped from what
was to become the Tax Reform
Act of 1976. For students,
nothing changed.
The original Senate proposal
was sponsored by Senator
William Roth (R-Del.) and
provided a $100 tax credit for
tuition and fees beginning next
year, with stepped increases of
$50 bringing the credit to a $250
maximum by 1980. Total cost for
the ill-fated credit was
estimated at $1.1 billion per year
by the time the credit reached
the $250 maximum.
The Roth proposal was by no
means a universally agreed
upon boon for students, with
some critics arguing that the
money was poorly targeted
while others charged that it
stood in the way of genuine tax
reform. Still others claimed the
tuition credit was so small as to
be nothing more than a political
sop to middle income families
and a way of diverting pressure
away from the deep rooted crisis
Artists Exhibit Works
in Case Gallery Show
The first show d 1977 now on
display in the Case Art Gallerv’
at Atlantic Christian College,
should appeal to those people
who hear a lot of talk about the
‘‘quality of life" and wonder who
is doing anything about it.
The three artists featured this
month have created functional
objects to use in everyday life
and to enjoy for their esthetic
appeal. The works will remain
on display through Jan. 29,
Susan and Lanny Pelletier,
recent graduates of the Atlantic
Christian Department of Art,
have formed a husband and wife
team, with Lanny creating
stoneware pottery, and Susan
supplying the decorative em
bellishments, primarily using
animal themes.
The Pelletiers have traveled
widely in the United States,
studying various pottery
programs. They have been in
volved in many exhibits in
cluding the prestigious North
Carolina Artists’ Annual at the
State Museum, and they have
given workshops and demon
strations.
Dempsey Calhoun, a sculptor-
metalsmith from Dobson, is a
graduate erf East Carolina
University. He has traveled
throughout Europe and has been
artist-in-residence with two
colleges.
Included in the exhibit are
door kncKkers, door pulls, towel
rings, hat racks, coat hooks, and
hanging pot racks. Commenting
on these works. Brown said,
"They are prime examples of
hand-forged metalsmith
pr(xiucts. They show consistent
good craftsmanship and design.
Like an early American
blacksmith, Calhoun uses torch,
hammer and anvil, but he
prefers copper to iron, because
of its warm, mellow cook”
The Pelletiers and Dempsy
Calhoun represent a growing
trend among the young artist-
craftsmen in this country: the
production of creative, func
tional, one-of-a-kind prtxiucts for
use in the home.
Gallery hours are:
Mondays through Fridays 10
a m, to 4:30 p m,; and Satur
days, l:30p,m, to3:30 p.m.
in financing higher education.
The Roth proposal con
sequently left students in a bind:
whether to push for far reaching
tax reform, seek to modify the
proposal to make it more
equitable and effective, or
simply line up at the Internal
Revenue Service for a dip in the
tax till.
It was a short lived dilemma.
When the House-Senate con
ference junked the tuition credit,
students were left exactly where
they were when the debate
started: with no tax break, no
tax reform, and facing the
prospect of ever increasing
educational costs.
Arguing for the tuition credit,
Senator Roth said, “It is readily
admitted that the fastest rising
cost is in education. It seems to
me it is time we gave recognition
to middle class working
Americans and helped them
send their children to college,”
Reformers acknowledged the
financing crisis in higher
education but criticized the
proposal as a backdoor ap
proach which did not confront
the fundamental problems of
financing education.
Critics have argued the
proposal would provide little or
no relief for those most in need:
lower income families and in
dependent students. Some of
these critics have claimed a
much more effective strategy
would be to add the $1,1 billion
onto the Basic Grants program,
thus expanding eligiblity for the
program and increasing grant
maximums.
In one curious twist on the
concept of reform. Senator
Charles Mathias (R-Md,)
See TLITIO.N Page 3
News in Brief
Teacher Exams to l>e Given
Prospective teachers who plan to take the National Teacher
Examinations on Feb, 19, 1977, at Atlantic Christian College,
were reminded today that they have less than two weeks to
register with Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton,
N,J,
Zeb M. Whitehurst III, dean of students, said registrations
must be mailed in time to reach ETS no later than Jan, 27,
Registration forms and instructions may be obtained from Dean
Whitehurst at Atlantic Christian College or directly from the
National Teacher Examinations, ETS, Box 911, Princeton, N,J,
08540,
During the one-day testing session, a registrant may take the
Common Examinations, which include tests in professional and
general education, plus one of 27 Area Examinations designed to
probe knowledge of particular subject matter and teaching
methods,
Dendy Fund Established
Mr, and Mrs, Richard Dendy of Wilson, in December of 1976,
presented a gift in the amount of $500 to Atlantic Christian
College to begin an endowed scholarship fund in memory of
their late son, James Edward Dendy, an ACC student who was
fatally injured in an automobile accident on July 24,1976,
James Dendy, a senior at the college, was a member and vice
president of the Gamma Lambda chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi
fraternity.
Income earned by the fund will be awarded preferably to a
member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity or Delta Zeta sorority.
Additional contributions are expected for the fund.
309 Make Deans List
Three hundred and nine Atlantic Christian College students
earned places on the Dean’s List for academic achievement
during the fall semester of the current academic year, ac
cording to Dr, Lewis H, Swindell Jr,, dean of the college.
To earn places on the Dean’s List students must achieve at
least a 3.20 (B-plus) grade average for the semester while
carrying a minimum of 12 semester hours.
Students Lose Property in Fire
A fire which occurred at about 2:30 a m, last Thursday left
five ACC students and one professor homeless. None were hurt
but the apartment house and personal property damages were
extensive.
Those living in the house were Sion Carr and Jerry Adams,
Janet Daniels, Betty and Robert Wells, and Dr, Deems Wiggs,
All have since found living quarters elsewhere.
Lost in the fire due to smoke and water damage was a stereo,
a color television set, two black and white television sets,
clothing and furniture. Most fire damage occurred on the upper
floors. The lower level suffered mostly water damage.
Firemen were hampered mostly by the 18 degree weather
which caused water from the fire hoses to freeze. Fire damages
have been estimated at $5,500 thus far. Workmen are now in the
process of renovating the lower level of the building.