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Atlantic Christian College • Number*)
October 20, 1980
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Nationwide Fast!!!
Boston, Massachusetts....Or-
>anizers at Oxfam America, the
Joston-based international
■elief and development agency,
;xpect unprecedented support
or the agency’s annual Fast for
I World Harvest on November
!0,
•Responses to our announce-
nents about the Fast so far
ndicate that as many as 500,000
ndividuals throughout the
.'ountry will participate this
,'ear,” says this year’s Fast
Toordinator, Nancy Smith.
The Fast is held each year on
he Thursday before Thanksgiv-
ng. “Fasting is a symbolic
jct,” explains Oxfam Executive
Director, Joe Short. “It is a
itatement against the inequities
that contribute to the misery of
the millions of people around
the world who never have
enough to eat.
By contributing the dollars
they would have spent on food
that day, Fast participants also
play a major role in supporting
Oxfam America's development
projects in some of the poorest
areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin
America. “Our projects are
aimed not only at meeting the
immediate needs of starving
peoples, but at helping people
improve their lives, grow more
food, and break the cycle of
hunger and poverty,” Short
says. Since the agency’s first
Fast in 1974, participants have
raised nearly $1.5 million to
m£xicu £Ui£
fund projects in poor countries.
"The Fast is really a
grass-roots event," noted
Smith. “In addition to individ
ual supports,civic, community,
religious, and school groups
hold fund-raising events that
range from craft sales to mara
thons.” In 1979 more than
4,500 groups and organizations
participated in the Fast. A
highlight of last year’s Fast was
a Congressional Fast organized
by New York State Congress
man Peter Peyser. The event
featured a bipartisan panel of
Republicans and Democrats
who signified their support by
giving up lunch on Capitol Hill
that day. More than 1000
Congressmen and their staff
participated.
Now in its seventh year, the
Fast has become a tradition in
thousands of households and
communities throughout the
country. It has also gained the
respect and support of many
prominent persons in business,
politics, entcrtainnicnt, and re
ligious and academic activities.
The roster of Fast sponsors
includes Ralph Abernathy, Kd
Asner. Joan Baez, Harry Chapin
Alistair Cooke. Valerie Harper.
Gloria Steinem, and Andrew
Y’oung.
Short believes that support for
the Fast is growing in part
because of increased public
awareness about the problem of
world hunger. “It is increasing
ly difficult for those who live in
developed wuntrics to closc
their eyes to the plight of those
living in the p<H)r regions of the
world.”
Short cite.s the resfHinse of
agencies, governments, and in
dividuals around the globe to
the needs of the Cambodian
people as evidence that “we are
becoming more and more a
world community.” Oxfam
heads a JO-agency Consortium
that continues to provide relief
and reconstruction aid lo Cam-
btxlia. The agency recently
announced a major campaign to
provide aid to Hast African
refugees.
Get Off!
Ay c/fntd.
Something is happening
onight, Wednesday, Oct. 22,
1980 in Hardy Alumni Hall.
If you’re looking for enter
tainment, bored, or just wish to
sscape from the regular college
pressures, you owe it to yourself
to come see this show. Come
out and support your fellow
students and watch as they
proceed to present their finest
attributes. You may be begin
ning to wonder about what in
the world we’re talking about?
What else but a talent show!
The entertainers in the show
include Charlie Nottingham
(singing), Gary Saunders (sing
ing “One In A Million”), Sey
more Adams (singing), Carla
Sanders (singing duet), Kather
ine Hobbs (singing), Jeffery
Best (gymnastics), Ted Ander
son and John Clyburn (“Whose
On First” presentation), Larry
Battle (singing), Maurice Reve-
ony Ln.E.±
ley (singing), Shelia Keel, Bren
da Jones, and Sarah Leonard
(singing trio), Rick Mobley
(singing "Can’t We Try”),
Jonas Hooks (dancing), Phyliss
Ballenger (“signing”), Mary
Ann Roundtree, Mayline Ras-
berry, and Regina T. (dance
routine), Cynthia Joyner (sing
ing), Rosemary Richardson
(singing), and Sibyl Harris and
Sherry Chalk (twirling routine).
This is the first event of the
year sponsored by the Afro-
American Awareness Society.
We hope it will be the “Best
show ever” on this campus. We
would like to see “your place in
the place.” For only 50 cents,
we feel you’ll recieve more than
your money’s worth. So, if
you're tired of the same old
campus routines, here is your
chance to change it. See you in
Hardy Alumni Hall on Wednes
day, Oct. 22, 1980 at 8:00 p.m.
r ^ rw ENERGY.
Great Uanes We can't afford
to waste it.
WILSON,N.C.— Rosager’s
Danish Gym Team, a world-clas
gymnastics act, will appear in
Wilson Gym on the campus of
Atlantic Christian College, on
Tuesday, Oct.28, at 8 p.m.
The exhibition will be open to
the public free of charge, and
Atlantic Christian athletic direc
tor Tom Parham urges Wilson
area residents to mark this date
on their calendars.
“This is an excellent chance for
the people in our area to see a
first-class show, and anyone
with interests in gymnastics or
dancing would certainly benefit
from the show,’’said Parham.
“We had this show at AC in
1976 and it was an impressive
performance, and a whole lot
fun.”
The exhibition is sponsored by
the Concert andLecture Commit
tee of Atlantic Christian College
Frank Mayes, chairman.
Dear students, of ACC. As you
know, the cost of power in the
Southeastern United States, has
skyrocketed in the past ten
years. The cost of a single
B.T.U. of energy has increased
560% since 1978. The reason I
would like to bring these facts to
your attention is, as I’m sure
you are aware, the need to
locate and obtain new sources of
energy for the coming years.
We, at CP&L. have been
involved with exploration of new
energy sources for years, and
I’m happy to announce the
discovery of a new, untapped
supply. Two weeks ago. our
engineers were in the vicinity of
your College, when their instru
ments picked up strong waves of
raw energy. Curious by this
unexpected reading, they in
vestigated further and were led
to your campus. Needless to say
they were puzzled. They search
ed the area for hours and finally
came up with evidence of their
power source. There, attached
to some bushes, was a fragment
of bright blue cloth that had
been torn from some type of
garment. The engineers were
puzzled to find the material
glowing in a steady, pulsating
light. They measured the cloth
for charge and it registered as
having a charge of 450 volts. It
was then that they noticed a
particular student that had been
staring at them for quite some
time. They approached the
student to speak to him, but
when the ptx)r boy’s eyes caught
sight of the cloth, he turned
white as a sheet and ran off
screaming, and shouting some
thing about an Electric Horse
man. I'm not sure what he
meant, but if that piece of cloth
came from a garment worn by
this Electric Horseman, we at
CPiL think that this may be the
most signifigant energy find
since Saudi Arabia. The pur
pose for my letter is this: we
would like the student-body's
permission to search for this
Electric Horseman on the cam
pus. We have some extremely
reliable leads as to where we
might begin looking. Some
students reported a sighting
around your fountain, and as
many positively charged parti
cles as we've found in that
water, wc feel confident that
with the proper equipment and
a skilled diving team, that we
could locate the lair of this
evasive being. We are not
ready to speculate on what it is
down there, but we have esta-
mates from our labs, that this
Electric Horseman, if we could
harness his energy, could pro
vide enough energy, to meet the
demands of Eastern North Car
olina for the next forty years.
Please take time out to consider
this proposition. We are pre
pared to repair any damages
incurred during exploration, and
although your fountain may be
damaged, we will restore it to
its' present beautiful state w hen
we achieve our goal.
Together you and CPicL can
shape the future of North Caro
lina's power industry
Thank you. and we lcx)k for
ward to hearing from you s(x>n.
AC DOWNS PSU Fight
Atlantic Christian dropped only
nine games in the six singles
matches as th lady netters sailed
to an easy 8-1 victory over the
winless Pembroke State Braves
here Monday afternoon.
Yolanda Rodriquez returned to
the number one posistion and
downed Debra Tyynismaa 6-1,
6-0. Oddly enough, the last time
that Rodriquez played at the
number one slot was in the
Methodist tournament, where
she had to default due to an
injury to her ankle. Her foe for
that match was Tyynismaa.
In other singles matches,
number two Allison Hopkins
clipped Vickie Viall 6-1, 6-3,
Mercedes Giron won at number
three over Pat May nor 6-0, 6-1;
fourth seeded LeAyne Summerli
dumped LeAnne Bass 6-1, 6-0;
fifth seeded Karlynn Cotton
tripped up Sharon Smith 6-1,
6-0; and sixth seeded Faith
Singer clobbered Debbie Cavin-
ess 6-1, 6-0.
With the victory already
assured, coach Barbara Smith
shuffled her line-up for the
doubles play and came out with
two wins in the three matches.
Singer-Cotton defeated Tyynis-
maa-Bass 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Betty
Tyner- Margaret Wampler cruis
ed to a 6-4, 6-3 win overSmith-Vi
all, and the tandem of Edie
Dean-Giron fell to Maynor-Cavi
ness7-6, 4-6, 1-6.
A Teenager’s
For Patriotism
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To Lori Cox, a pretty teenager
from Arizona, patriotism was
more than a word. Three years
ago, she asked her high school
principal to reinstate the pledge
To Lori Cox, a pretty teenager
from Arizona, patriotism was
more than a word. Three years
ago, she asked her high school
principal to reinstate the Pledge
of Allegiance at the opening of
each class. She was turned
down not only by the principal
but by the student council, the
local school board, and by
several state legistlators. But
this teenager didn’t take “no”
for an answer. Lori Cox has now-
won a fight for a state law-
providing that all public schools
in Arizona allow 15 seconds a
day for recitation of the Pledge
of Allegiance for those w ho wish
to participate. And she’s now-
campaigning for Congressional
designation of a National
Patriotism Week. This would
encourage both primary and
secondary schools to provide
week-long studies each Febru
ary in the patriotic heritage of
America.
Lori’s fight has not been ea^y.
Once, at the beginning of her
Pledge of Allegiance campaign,
the American flag was stolen
from her high school. On other
occasions vandals cut the flag
pole lines and desecrated the
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