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April 28, 1980
number i
Editorial
Howdy y’all! I’d just like to introduce myself. My
name is Joe Stallings and I’m the new editor of the
Collegiate. I’d also like to formally thank you for
electing me to this “prestigious” position. I’ve talked to
several people who have held this office before me and
have not gotten too favorable a response. However, I’m
the kind of person who is crazy enough to try almost
anything once! So here I am.
I’m hoping to make this paper into something that a
person would actually like to read and not just
something for a dog to eat off of (I thought about en
closing a blank page just in case someone wanted to use
it for that reason but I decided against it. Oh well ).
Seriously, folks. I’m planning to make quite a few
changes for the upcoming year and I’m really hoping
this paper will become something the people of AC can
really get into.
In the short time that I have been the Collegiate
editor, dozens of people have come up to me to try to tell
me what I can and cannot print, what I should and
should not print, and many other things that relate to the
same general idea. This is all fine and dandy because at
the moment I need all the help I can get. However when
it comes to something like printing a newspaper. I’m
definitely not a conservative person like some p eople
want me to be.
I have certain new ideas and modifications that are
going to transform this newspaper into something
different. I have found out from previous editors the
price that has to be paid when a more liberal-minded
attitude is taken. And just for the record. I’m a very
liberal-minded person. If there is anything that needs to
be brought out into the open, it shall be done. I’m not out
against anyone but just out to make sure the factual
truth is made public. The way I see it, wrongs should not
be ignored and a puppet-front should not (and will not)
be taken just for the purpose of pleasing an all-powerful
force. I fully realize that by taking this position I may
very well have a number of dragons breathing fire down
my back instantaneously but to no avail.
For example. I’m not out to cut-down the cafeteria but
if corned-beef flavored Kennel Ration is served, the
public should know about it (personally I like the food —
this is just an example). Also if someone is
academically discriminated against because he and/or
she joins a Greek organization then I believe the stud-
nets on campus should know about it (I’m not saying
this happened — this is just an example). I’m not out to
knock the teaching methods of any faculty members
either, even though a few of them could possibly lecture
Einstein into a state of dormancy (but of course per
sonally, I’ve never encountered any of this variety here
at AC). Also I have no intention of cutting down the
financial aid program even though some ineligible
people almost had to stay out of school this semester for
lack of funds (as I said before, this is just a
“hypothetical” example).
So as you can see, I’m not out to run down anything
but just merely striving to print the truth.
I’m starting to plan my new format and of course,
I’m open to suggestion. If there is anything that you
would like to see put into the paper that’s not already
there, please let me know! Write me or call me or get in
touch with me in any way that you wish but please
let me hear from you!
I consider this a great opportunity and I thank y’all
for it. I’m just hoping to do the job well enough to please
someone and to improve upon past papers in any way
that I can.
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Dear Editor:
This letter concerns the cur
rent exam schedule for Spring
1980. 1 am aware that it is too
late to change the schedule, 1
would like to brin^ to the
attention of the admmistration
the concern the student are
liaving. A number of us feel that
it is unfair to have exams
Monday through Friday and this
year we’re not even having our
usual Reading Day, as we’ve
had in previous years.
1 fed that, in future sem
esters, this current schedule
should be eliminated and we
should return to the one used in
past years.
This article is not meant as an
offense to the administration. 1
would only like to make it clear
that I am opposed to the
schedule we will follow in two
weeks.
lailon
■Well, this is it. Finally! The
very last one for this year!
IDoesn’t that sound nice, ‘‘The
very last one”?]
There are both positive and
negative aspects about this be
ing my last “Sail On.” The
positive being that I don’t have
to worry about meeting dead
lines or J. Fred anymore.
[Hurrah!] And the negative
being that I still have this last
one to write.[Boo!]
Which brings me to this next
point: Do I keep this week’s
article light and airy [like my
head], or do 1 make it a
soul-searching, tear-jerking
soul searching, tear-jerking
column that will be clipped the
world over and carried to the
grave by all?
After much and careful consi
deration, I came up with an
idea. First let me give you a run
down on the things 1 didn’t feel
would of been appropriate for
“The Last Article”.
1 considered taking a satirical
look at student life here on the
campus, you know poking fun at
some of the more humerous
event that happened this past
year. But after thinking for an
hour or two, 1 could come up
with nothing funny about stu
dent life on campus. Sad, yes.
Funny, no.
1 then considered writing a
column on behalf of J. Fred amd
Joe Stallings, and on the behalf
of Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, making one last
ditch, all-out effort to get that
$15,000 worth of eguipment
moved from the Swamp. You
remember Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego don’t you? They
are the three compugraphic
machines that were ordered two
years ago and temporarily
stored in the art building, being
promised a nice dry office at the
end of last year. Well, here it is
the end of their second year on
campus and they have yet to see
a “dry office.” Instead, they
were put three feet below sea
level in the Collegiate Office
where they are in the process of
rusting from the inside out. If
they are not move from that
place soon, be this time next
year, we would be able to give
year, we would be able to give
away that $15,000 worth of
equipment. But realizing that J.
Fred and 1 have talked ourselves
blue in the face [not to mention
numerous others] over getting
some dry place to put Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego, and
yet no one heeds our pleas, I
decided not to write about it.
And even though it was a real
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interesting subject, I decided
not to even mention the SIS.OO
per semester parking fees the
students had no choice in the
matter of paying. And even that
$15.00 sticker on yout car
doesn’t guarantee you a parking
space in the mornings. If only
someone had listened years ago
to the student who suggested
that a $2.00 fee be charged for
parking stickers and the money
put aside to pave the parking
lots later. 1 don’t know of
anyone who would of greatly
objected to paying $2.00. But
instead they had to charge us
$15.00 per semester to buy a
sticker that actually guaranteed
nothing. But, I’m not even
going to mention that.
Another thing I’d thought
about but decided not to men
tion was how much the stadents
hated being treated like second,
third and fourth class citizens
by faculty and administration,
just because their views differ in
certain areas. 1 have yet to find
anyone who enjoys being cursed
at by administration officials or
threatened at by the faculty, 1
also know of a number of
students who feel as if there is
no need to voice their opinions
because they will never be
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Joe Stallings
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