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Evening!
We Ask the Students
■This week we begin a new
feature in the Collegiate At
the Center, Our roving
reporter Dale Adams will ask
students caught milling about
the student center what they
think about certain issues
pertinent to the campus
community. This week’s
question was: “How would
you evaluate the job the
Student Government
Association has done thus far
this year?” Read at the Center
below and find out what people
are thinking.
Ramsey Lewis at State
Elamsey Lewis, an im
portant influence on the
contemporary jazz piano will
perform at N.C. State
University in the Stewart
Theatre this Saturday, Feb.
19, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are on sale at the door.
We have no information on
cost.
student Elections
All students wishing to file
for any student government
office should submit a written
statement to Ricky Clayton,
SGA president, by March 1.
NTE This Saturday
The National Teacher
Examination will be held this
Sat., Feb. 19, in Hardy Alumni
Hall. Common Exams will
begin at 8:30 a.m. They will
last to approximately 12:30
p.m. Candidates for the Area
Examinations should report at
1:30 p.m. This exam will end
at approximately 4:15 p.m.
Worship Service
There will be a worship
service this Sunday, Feb. 20,
at 11:00 a.m. in Howard
Chapel. It will be sponsored by
the Campus Christian Assoc.
Women’s Varsity Tennis
The women’s tennis team
will hold a meeting for all
interested full-time female
students Tuesday, Feb. 20, at
100 p.m. in Wilson Gym 101.
Regular practice will begin
Monday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m.
Senior Class Meeting
The Senior class will meet
tonight at 6 p .m. in Hines room
211. The gift, commencement
and senior social committees
will report. All seniors are
urged to attend.
Science Club
The Science Club will meet
tonight at 7 p.m. in room 105 of
the Science building.
Returning guest speaker, Mr.
Rob Bainbridge, will speak
3nd show slides of the
Botanical Gardens in
Longwood, N.J. All members
^nd interested students are
■nvited.
Future Teachers
Students who plan to enter
student teaching either in the
rail 1977 or Spring 1978 must
wake application for the
Teacher Education Program-
NUMBER SIXTEEN
State Colleges are Overcrowded
FEBRUARY ”
Natures* Way
How long will a man be able to sit quietly by a secluded stream?
Two noted conservationists give their views on the relationship
of man and nature on our editorial page today. (Photo by Pete
Chamness — The Collegiate)
Students and Faculty Comment
on SGA Effectiveness
By 1)1
By DALE ADAMS
How would you evaluate the
job the Student Government
Association has done thus far
this year?
A spark can start a flame
which is exactly what this
question did when various in
dividuals were asked to appraise
the effectiveness of the students’
voice in government here at ACC
— commonly called the SGA.
At
The
Center
The responses were varied and
in most cases adamant as
replies were given by students
and faculty. The question was
evidently one which some had
been waiting to answer and
which some would rather have
avoided as the following replies
indicate.
(It is only appropriate that the
most frequent student reply
should be first in our list of
responses to the question “How
would you evaluate the SGA of
ACC?”)
“I don’t know. Isn’t Ricky
Clayton an officer? ’’
Other student replies were:
“I haven’t really kept up with
the SGA. I have both agreed and
disagreed with their decisions.”
their decisions.”
“I think it’s a farce.”
“It’s effective, but we don’t
know what is going on.”
“I don’t know that it exists. It
is extremely abstract.”
“It’s there, but the students
aren’t interested. A lot of the
students really don’tcare.”
“I don’t hear that much about
it. Isn’t what’s-his-name the
president?”
“What does it do? All 1 can say
is, it’s trying,”
“I don’t think it is in
cooperation with the D-Board,
faculty, or administration.”
“Who in the hell knows how to
evaluate it?”
“I don’t think it is effective.
You never hear anything about
what they’re doing. Maybe they
don’t have any thing to do. ”
“They might be effective, but I
don’t know. That’s my fault.
They haven’t done anything so
outstanding that I remember it
or so bad that I’ve heard about
it, I don’t even know what the
SGA is supposed to be doing,”
“As a whole, they’re okay.
They have a long way to go as
far as rules are concerned, I
don’t think they’ve publicized
what they’ve done. They’re not
as effective as they used to be.”
“I don’t feel that it has any
power. It is designed with good
intentions, but it’s main purpose
is to appease the students. They
get some things done, but it
takes a long time.”
“I feel that the SGA is a worth
while activity in that it provides
a proto-psycho-recreational
outlet for persons who might
otherwise be wandering
aimlessly about.”
“The SGA is pretty good.
They’re active; they’re erh
thusiastic. They get bogged
down a lot. I go to the meetings.
Sometimes they get so mvolved
with the proper way of doing
things that they forget what
they’re supposed to be doing.
But from what I’ve heard from
other schools, we really have an
effective SGA. Since none of the
See SG.A Page 3
A\E AI ERBACH
(CPS) — Students applying to
slate universities this winter
may find themselves out in the
cold. Although many private
colleges are scrambling to fill
empty classroom seats, public
universities, with an eye on
bursting classrooms and thinly
stretched budgets, are turning
students away.
As a result, thousands of
people who have attempted to
escape an unfriendly job market
by seeding refuge in school may
find the doors closed by in
stitutions that have economic
problems of their own.
In Colorado, hundreds of
applicants were turned away
from the University of
Colorado's (UC) Boulder
campus, Colorado State
University and the University of
Northern Colorado because of
enrollment ceilings imposed by
the state legislature.
Classroom space is at such a
premium that UC’s College of
Arts and Sciences has even
launched a plan to weed out
marginal students. The college
has changed its rules to allow for
academic suspension twice a
year instead of once and has
abolished the “sliding scale"
which formerly gave a break to
students with a grade point
average below 2.0.
Turning away so many
qualified students while keeping
students with deficient grades is
an “unconscionable position,"
explained Arts and Sciences
Associate Dean John Carnes.
Meanwhile, the State
University of New York was
bombard^ by 85,000 applicants
this fall with room for only
35,000 freshmen. The Board of
Trustees approved a fri-eze on
enrollment at 20 of the M
campuses, plus a moratorium on
building projects, the ChronicU-
of Higher Education reported.
At the City University of New
York, which is crippled by the
near-bankruptcy of the city
government, officials are
considering restrictions that
would cut back enrollment by 20
per cent in thrw years.
The University of North
Carolina, with 7000 more
students on its campuses this fall
than a year ago, has imposed
some enrollment restrictions at
its Chapel Hill campus, has cut
off new admissions for the
spring term at Appalachian
State University and is con
sidering limits at North Carolina
State University,
“We are over-enrolled, our
faculty is overloaded and we are
faced with budget limitations in
our state funding," said C H.
Gilstra, director of admissions
at Appalachian State University,
In the meantime, no one
predicts a let up in the near
future on enrollment restric
tions, “It’s no news that the
economy is in trouble," com
mented an official at the
American Association of Slate
Colleges and Universities, “And
that means hard times for slate
legislatures, down the line to
universities and students,"
News in Brief
“Glass Menagerie” Starts INext Vi eek
Stage and Script, the drama organization of ACC, will present
“The Glass Menagerie" for three days beginning next week on
February 24, Show time will be 8 p.m. in Hardy Alumni Hall
Seating will be limited and will be issued on a first-come, first-
served basis.
The cast for “The Glass Menagerie" is: James Ward as Tom ;
Donna Perrin as Amanda: Thomas Barnes as Jim: and Lavee
Hamer as Laura.
The play will be done in a new way for Stage and Script They
will use a “thrust stage" or “three quarter round stage " This
means that the audience will be seated on three sides of the
playing area — they will have a closer view of what is happening
on stage.
The play is told through the eyes of the character Tom. It is a
flashback on his part — a flashback to the days when he iived
with his mother Amanda and his sister Laura.
General admission will be $1.50 for adults and ,50 cents for
students, ACC faculty, staff, and students will be admitted free.
Advanced Tuition Payment Due
The Business Manager advises students who wish to pre
register for the fall semester 1977 must make a $50 advanced
tuition payment to the College by March 10. 1977, Part-time and
evening school students who intend to enroll full-time must also
make the payment. Part-time students who wish to pre-register
as part-time should inform the Registrar's Office of their in
tention in order that a preregistration packet may be set up
Students who do not make the advanced payment will not be
permitted to pre-register. The notice will not be mailed to
parents. The payment will be credited to the fall semester ac
count and is non-refundable,
Hitchcock Film Festival
Begins March 15
The (>)ncert and Lecture Committee will present an Alfred
Hitchcock Film F'estival beginning March 15, Six of Hitchcocks'
greatest films, produced during the years 1940 to 1970, will be
shown. The films will be presented on successive Thursday
evenings at 7:30 in Hardy Alumni Hall. A taped interview with
Hitchcock will be shown preceeding the first showing.