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FEBRUARY 23,1978
The Student’s Voice
Guest Editorial
Beauty?... At ACC
Has everyone bwn walking
around with their eyes closed! 11
Has anyone notici*d the filth on
this campus!!! 1)<H‘s anyone
care what this campus looks
like!!! Kvery collejje student
should be proud of Atlantic
Christian College and the AC
camps. We should be more
AWAltK of our cam[5us: How
tx'autiful it is and how Ix'autiful
it could Ix'come.
After a close look at the
campus, it swrns there are
many areas in which the
students can make a definite
improvement to the appt'arance
of the campus. For example:
USK THK WALK
WAYS! !!!!!!!! It seems that we
can all take a few extra steps in
order to let the grass live. We
always take the ‘'shortest path "
— and that's exactly what they
are — paths — to where we are
going. The walkways are made
to Ix' walked on and using them
is really a life and death matter
— the the life of the grass and
plants on campus. Green grass
is a lot nicer to l<x)k at than
brown, muddy ruts.
Instead of acting like small
children who don't know any
lietter why can't we use the
garbage cans instead of the
ground. I’eople (?) in Hackney
make a daily ritual of throwing
bottles, cans, candy wrappers,
dirty underwear, etc, over the
rail, Tlwt isn't the only part of
campus that is used as a disposal
area. Does it really take that
many steps to find a garbage
can?
Who of us has been putting
ruts on the campus with our
nice, shiny automobiles? The
lawn (ha!) in front of Caldwell
l(K)ks like a plowed under corn
field. For those of you not of the
farni-belt, a corn field fits well
into the country side, but not in
the center of our campus. 1
realize that people who live in
Caldwell are privileged, but it
seems as if they could carry a
suitcase to the parking lot on
Friday afternoon instead of
driving their cars to the front
door. Everyday cars overflow a
What’s Playing
In Wilson
Colony Theatre
“Which Way Is Up" (PG)
Ciold Park Cinema
I. "The Betsy” (R)
II. "One On One" (PG)
Parkwood Cinema
I. "SemiTough " (R)
II. "Close Encounters'
(PG)
Starlight Drive-In
"Late Great Planet Earth"
"Challenge To Be Free”
(PG)
All Start Friday
little more on to the grassy areas
around them. Carrying a suit_
case a few extra steps and
paymg attention to where you
park are small things we can all
do to improve the condition ol
our campus.
The students and faculty
cannot shoulder the full blame
for the condition of the campus.
The maintenance department
should also be more aware o
"little things.” We know that
maintenance would notice if a
building caved in and we do
realize that the department has
a big job, BUT that doesn't gel
rid of the garbage piled up all
over the campus. H you open
your eyes, all you see is JUNK-
behind Hardy Hall, around the
Art Building, and Hilley Hall.
These are places junk seems to
accumulate. There are fallen
rain gutters, doors, and old
bricks and boards everywhere.
How much time and effort is
needed to haul this stuff away?
Does the maintenance depart
ment have the initiative to keep
the campus clean? The old
power plant, which is the sole
domain of the maintenance
depiirtment, is infested with
junk. The building looks like a
family of pack rats make their
home there. With a little bit of
unification, we could clean it out.
One of Atlantic Christian's
major assets can be the ap
pearance of it’s campus. The
flower beds, big trees, brick
walkways, grassy areas and
flowering shrubs and trees are
all beautiful, especially in the
Spring, Those areas are in
desperate need of repair; the
flower beds need replanting,
some of the shrubs need to be
replaced, trash needs to be kept
in the cans and people need to
walk on the walkways. Concern
is the first step towards making
Atlantic Christian a more
beautiful place. The people who
live, work and study on the
campus need to become more
aware of their surroundings. If
we all join together with a sin
cere, enthusiastic effort to make
A.C, a more beautiful place —
WE CAN!!!! We need to be
proud of our campus. We need to
develop an awareness of our
surroundings. Let no one say
A.C. students are unconcerned
or unambitious. ACCEPT the
challenge to become involved in
the beautification of our cam
pus.
Don Berry
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Letters To The Editor
To the Editor:
The “Frederick Wiseman
Film Festival” ended this week.
Throughout the past six weeks,
students have had an op
portunity to see a man kept
naked in a hospital for the
criminally insane, a frightened
young man left alone to vomit on
the floor of a public medical
hospital, a monk in a monastery
complaining because his
"brothers ” called him by his
first name, poor people waitmg
in endless welfare lines, high
school students being turned into
“bodies just doing a job,” and
the skull of a spider monkey
being crunched like the shell of a
walnut in the hands of a scien
tist.
None of these was a very
pleasant sight. Most of us prefer
not to see such things, so most of
us didn’t come to see them. Even
students and faculty directly
involved in the institutions
shown in the films stayed away.
At the showing of “Hospital”
only two or three nursing faculty
and students attended. No more
than two or three religion
majors and faculty showed up to
see “Essene.” Virtually no
social science or political
science majors came to see
“Welfare.” And only a few
science majors came to see
“Primate.”
When people did come to the
films, as in the large crowds for
“Titicut Follies” and “High
School,” they seemed to come
largely for the wrong reasons.
“Titicut Follies” was well-
attended because students were
required to come by well-
meaning professors or because
students thought they were
going to be titillated by
something sexy or shocking. The
audience showed its lack of real
interest by behaving with un
believable rudeness. The
audience at “High School”
undoubtedly came at the “en
couragement” of the education
department and out of curiosity
about what a real, live movie
director might look like. But
only a few people came out of a
real interest in the issues raised
by the films.
One could think of excuses for
the poor attendance at some of
the films: Maybe Sunday night
was a bad night, but a huge
crowd came on the first Sunday
night. Maybe people had
‘‘better’ things to do. But that, of
course, was Wiseman’s point: as
long as people refuse to see or
care about the problems
depicted in the films, people and
animals — indeed our whole
society — will continue to suffer.
Or maybe the films were too
boring or too shocking. But they
could be boring only if we didn’t
genuinely care about the real
problems of real people; and if
people were shocked, perhaps
they needed to see a reality they
had previosly refused to
acknowledge.
But whatever the reason,
people — students, faculty,
administration, and townspeople
included — stayed away. The
apathy certainly says something
about the quality of the in
tellectual community we have at
Atlantic Christian College.
Those who took a genuine in
terest in the series of films will
agree, I think that whether they
liked the films or not, the films
certainly raised important
questions and provoked some
interesting and valuable
discussions. But apparently
most members of the campus
community are not interested in
real people and tough questions.
Well, maybe the Concert and
Lecture Committee and the
English department shouldn’t
bother trying to make people
think; maybe they should give
the students and faculty what
they want. I understand that the
Concert and Lecture Committee
is reassessing its plans for next
year. One event being con
sidered is a Mickey Mouse Film
Festival, with Mickey himself as
a guest lecturer speaking on
“Life with Pluto.” The com
mittee figures that at least
students will come to that
festival. I’m afraid they’re right.
Richard J. Schneider
Letter to Editor
PROPOSED SGA CON
STITUTION
FOR 70
AGAINST 10
FRESHMAN CLASS SENATOR
Greg Dozier 7
John Clyburn 18
TOTAL ENROLLMENT OF
FULL TIME STUDENTS; 1,431
To the Editor:
It is unreal to note the amount
of apathy that has grown around
the wonderful old institution,
The student Government
Association of Atlantic Christian
College, Sometimes the in
difference seems like a living,
breathing thing that is going to
swallow us all, 1984 is just
around the corner.
Despite one popular notion,
there is a lot of activity at AC.
There is a myriad of causes and
organizations for involvement.
That is the way it should be.
College, ideally, should be a time
of growth. We have a long haul
between high school and
assuming a place in space age
society. This is why our short
time at AC is so important. For
some college is the start of adult
life. Others see college as the
quiet before the storm.
Whatever college is to the in
dividual it is at least a time of
varied interests and demands.
See LETTERS Page 5
ate
ByKEITHBR.^CKNTti
Electrodes sticking^
monkey’s skull, live s
an ape, and elert^
stimulation to obtain , '
gorilla. These'
ejacula^
from
o 111^150
were from the film r
Frederick Wiseman
Primate I,
viewed bi-:
small audience Sunday evi...
in Hardy Alumni Hall Tl!
documentary film depicted I
use of primates for researcb ■■
the Yerkes Primate Researp
Center in Atlanta. Wiseman-
camera wandered the halls am
laboratories of the cente,
zeroing in on clanging cage
locks, grimaced faces of apes
methodology of sexual ev
perimentation on apes,and ti*
series of events in obtainin;
tissue samples of a monkel
brain. Some of the scenes ceii
tered on the men doing fc
research. The leader 0! j
roomful of scientists was
discussing the weekly plans tke
sexual experiments and «ji
heard to say, “1 think thefe:
procedure would be to ejaculate
John on Tuesday and ther.
ejaculate him again Wednes
day.” A girl in the audience
whispered that the researchers
bore a striking resemblance to
the apes and that the apes
seemed more human.
Following the showing of tlie
film was a discussion on the
“Issues In The Use Of.\nimaL<
In Research.” Leading the
discussion was Dr. Tom Regai
Associate Professor of
Philosophy at North Carolina
State University, and Dr,
Mildred Hartsock, former
president of the Wilson Count;
Humane Society and Professor
Emeritus of English at Atlantic
Christian College. Dr. Regat
opened the discussion arguing ol
animals were similar to the
rights of enfeebled people. It was
his view that “The weaker the
individual the stronger ot
obligation.”
Hartsock was then introduced
and she gave her reaction to the
film.
“My first reaction,” she said
“is to go to the Yerkes Research
Center and tear those ex
periments and those scientists
apart but my second reaction k
to think about it some more.\\e
think that whatever we believes
good for the human species is
good. Well...I have to agree,"
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