PUBLISHED WEEKLY ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY2,1978 ' - NUMBER FOURTEEN
A Close Look At Howard Chapel
Bathroom wall ... walls?
Dressing room window facing Caldwell.
SGA Presents
Constitution
Dressing room ceiling
Stage corner facing Still Point
Welfare Film
Carl Frazier must now know
how Thomas Jefferson must
have felt. Frazier, who for over a
year now, has chaired the
Special Constitution Committee,
saw the SGA work over the
newly proposed Constitution in a
specially called meeting
Tuesday night.
Unlike Jefferson, Frazier did
not have to see many changes
take place. The new Constitution
stood up pretty well to scrutiny.
Only a few minor changes and
additions were made before the
Constitution was approved and
sent on to be voted on by the
students of the college.
The new Constitution is pat
terned somewhat akin to the
United States’ Constitution. One
of the most obvious differences
between this and the old SGA
Constitution is the larger and
more equal representation for
all students.
During Tuesday night’s
meeting, students were allowed
to nitpick in order to expose any
possible loopholes. Few were
found, but there were some
complaints about the lack of
loopholes. The most controversy
arose over who would be allowed
to count ballots after elections.
According to the new Con
stitution, ballots would be
counted by the Elections
Committee chairman, the Dean
of Students, the SGA President
and the Senior Class President.
In the event that the SGA
President is running for office,
the Senior Class Vice-President
would take his place. Eric
Sellers, the present chairman of
the Elections Committee, felt
that in the event that the others
could not be present, other
persons should be allowed to
take their place. After much
discussion, no changes were
made.
The students will be allowed to
vote on the Constitution
sometime before February 22
when the Board of Trustees will
meet.
J. Fred Pearce
Not only is Howard Chapt'l
located at the center of the
Atlantic Christian College
campus, it is also the center of
more varied types of campus
activities than anyother building
on campus. ComplettKi in 1939,
the building was originally in
tended to be exactly what its
iiame indicates — a chapel, a
place of worship for a churclv
related college.
Since then Howard Chapel has
been forced to function as
chapel, performance hall,
theatrical workshop,
auditorium, classnx)m, lecture
hall, concert hall, and rehearsal
hall. Naturally, such extreme
demands must eventually
produce wear and tear. Those
who use and maintain the
building have to copt' with the
resulting problems.
Security
According to both Paul
Crouch, director of drama, and
Dan Hensley, chaplain of the
college, building security is one
of the major problems. Theft has
been a constant source of
aggravation and expense.
Hensley staled that lights, altar
carpeting, microphones, and
even hymnals have been stolen
from the chapel. Crouch added
that in the past ten years, three
complete sound systems have
been lost to thieves and vandals.
More recently, the pew cushions,
which were paid for by “Stage
and Script” with proceeds from
their last year’s production
“Godspell”, are either being
stolen or misplaced. According
to Crouch, these cushions have
often been found in the balcony
or backstage areas after having
been used for “what? ....'’ said
See HOWARD CHAPEL Page 2
Pat
Terry
Trio
The Pat Terry Group, a vocal
trio, will present a concert of
contemporary Christian music,
at Atlantic Christian College,
tonight, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., in
Hardy Alumni Hall, on the
college campus.
The trio is comprised of Pal
Terry, Sonny Lallerstedt, and
Randy Bugg, all Georgians by
birth, who have enjoyed a
lifestyle involving music since
their childhood. Many songs
performed by the group are their
own. Pat Terry has compsoed
more than 200 songs.
Critics have said, “Whether it
be folk ballad, country, blues or
country rock, the Pat Terry
Group comes across
refreshing newness. The genue
blending of their guitars and
mellow voices echo a richness in
the very personal messages of
their songs.”
The group’s appearance is
sponsored by the Alpha Omega
Fellowship at Atlantic Christian
College. The concert is open to
the public. Tickets will be
available at the door.
The film “Welfare” will be
shown as one of a series of
programs entitled “Public
Issues and Human Values;
Critical Discussions of the Films
of Frederick Wiseman,” on
Sunday, February 5, at 7 p.m., in
Hardy Alumni Hall, on the
Atlantic Christian College
campus.
“Welfare” is one of Wiseman’s
more recent films about
American institutioas, having
been released in 1975. Sunday’s
program, entitled "Human
Values and the Welfare
Recipient.’’ will feature a
discussion led by Dr. Lewis
Lipsitz, Department of Political
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, and
Mrs. Ann Askew, Wilson County
Department of S(x;ial Services.
In a review of the film which
appeared in The New York
Times, Joseph Morgenstern
said, “It was probably inevitable
that Wiseman would bring his
camera to a welfare center.
Since 1967, when his first
documentary, ‘Titicut P'ollies,’
took a harrowing look at a
mental hospital, most of his
films have examined institutions
that influence the lives of plain,
often poor Americans.”
Wiseman himself has said lluit
“Welfare” deals with the same
issue that cuts across the other
films: “It’s the relationship of
people to authority, and how tluit
authority is exercised, which
helps define the kind of com
munity people live in”
Morgenstern notes that
Wiseman’s technique in this film
remains unclianged: “stark
black-and-white photography
and no narration - not a word
about the costs of welfare, how
many people cheat, how to clean
it up. The film only watches and
listens, as people tell their
stories to case workers, fellow
clients, the camera.”
The series is sponsored jointly
by the ACC Concert and Lecture
Committee and the ACC
Department of fc^nglish, and is
funded in part by a grant from
the N.C. Humanities Commitee,
a state-based program of the
National Endowment for the
Humanities.
The public is invited free of
charge.