CHRISTMAS DANCE DECEMBER 18 The Ridgeninner The Students^ Right to Information and Expression HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT STARTS THURSDAY Vol. 1 No. 4 Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina December 6, 1965 SOCIAL COMMISSION PLANS It seems now that the plans for the annual Asheville-Biltmore Christmas Dance have been fin alized. The dance will be semi- formal and will be held in the main hall of the Greek Center in Asheville. The Date will be Saturday night, December 18, from nine-to-one. Music will be furnished by the famous “Mau rice Williams and The Zodiacs.” Watch for details in the next issue of The Ridgerunner. Other news from the Social Commission comes in the form of the release of plans by the SGA film committee, headed up by Joe Lanford. The plans for a series of popular late release feature-length films to be shown on the A-B campus are now com plete. This program of films will be presented on week-end nights throughout the school year at no charge to A-B students. The film committee, working with the administration, has ac quired a new Cinemascope screen for the Student Center auditori um and will commence with its feature presentation on Satur day night, January 15. The list of what film will be shown on what nights is still forthcoming, but such films as The Longest Day, Seven Days in May, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and others are being &chcdjlcd. NATIONAL SERVICE FRATERNITY ORGANIZED A new fraternity has been or ganized on the campus of Ashe ville-Biltmore. ALPHA PHI OMEGA, a National Service Fraternity, was formally recog nized at the October 2 meeting of the Executive Council of the S. G. A. ALPHA PHI OMEGA was first organized on the campus of Lafayette College, Easton Penn, in 1925. It grew with amazing speed and is now the largest Service Fraternity in the Nation with nearly 400 chapters and an active membership of over 88,000 men. The only stipulation for mem bership is an earnest desire to take part in iservice projects to the college and community and to be or have been connected with Scouting. However, A.P.O. is not controlled by, financially supported by, or governed by Scouting. “Our goal” says Roy Shipman, Temporary President of the A.- B. Chapter, “is to serve the Campus and Community through a series of year round service projects which are being set up at this time.” The A. B. Chapter must com plete a series of projects and forms before it can make ap plication for a National Charter. When the Petition is received in the National A.P.O. Office, the information concerning it is transmitted to all chapters and executive board members for ap proval. This process of voting requires about 60 days. “We continued on page 3 READY FOR BUSINESS IN NEW SURROUNDINGS SOCIAL SCIENCE FACILITIES OPENED After a long wait, the work done on remodeling the old li brary section of the Asheville- Biltmore administration building is finally complete enough to per mit occupancy by the Depart ment of Social Sciences. This newly converted section contains the offices for the Government, Education, Psychology, Sociolo gy, and Economics sub-divisions. Two seminar rooms, however, are being used as temporary of fices for the Humanities section. The individual professors of the Social Science Department have their personal offices in the new facility with a general office and a secretary for each sub division. A classroom occupies the former periodical room and will be put into use as soon as draperies are installed shielding the glass partitioning. There is a lounge, as yet unfurnished, for the use of Social Science majors and their instructors. It will contain a small kitchen area, bookshelves, magazine racks, and a bulletin board. It is hoped that this area will provide more im petus for the individual study and the close, informal contact between instructor and student that is so important to the aims of a good liberal arts education. Needless to say, the Social Science majors are looking for ward to extensive use of this area in the future. ALMA MATER INTRODUCEO On November 22 an all-camp us Student Government assembly was held in the auditorium of the A-B Student Union. The pro gram presented included an in troduction to the student body the music for the Asheville-Bilt more Alma Mater. The new tune, as composed by Dr. Edwin of A-B received a mixed reception from some individuals, but never-the-less was unanimously adopted by those who voted on its being henceforth the official song at A-B. Dr. Edwin explain ed how he arrived at the theme for the alma mater through a process of elimination. He simply dug up every other college alma continued on page 4 A-B’s OFFICIAL SPEAKER POLICY (Editor’s Note: The following statement was adopted unani mously by the Asheville-Biltmore College Board of Trustees at their meeting of November 8. It is notable that A-B was the first school in the state to adopt this policy. Subsequently, after a revision of the “gag rule” in a special session of the state legis lature, the Southern Association rescinded its threat ito revoke accreditation of N. C. colleges.) The Trustees recognize that this Institution, and every part thereof, is owned by the people of North Carolina; that it is operated by duly tselected repre sentatives and personnel for the benefit of the people of our state. The Trustees of this Institu tion are unalterably opposed to communism and any other ideo logy or form of government which has as its goal the destruc tion of our basic democratic in stitutions. We recognize that the total program of a college or univer sity is committed to an orderly process of inquiry and discussion, ethical and moral excellence, ob jective instruction, and respect for law. An essential part of the education of each student at this Institution is the opportunity to hear diverse viewpoints expres sed by speakers properly invited to the campus. It is highly de sirable that students have the opportunity to question, review and discuss the opinions of speakers representing a wide range of viewpoints. It is vital to our success in supporting our free society a- gainst all forms of totalitarianism that institutions remain free to examine these ideologies to any extent that will serve the educa tional purposes of our institutions and not the purposes of the enemies of our free society. We feel that the appearance as a visiting speaker on our campus of one who was prohibit ed under Chapter 1207 of the 1963 Session Laws (The Speaker Ban Law) or who advocates any ideology or form of government which is wholly alien to our basic democratic institutions should be infrequent and then only when it would clearly serve the advan tage of education; and on such rare occasions reasonable and proper care should be exercised by the institution. The campuses shall not be exploited as conven ient outlets of discord and strife. We therefore provide that we the Trustees together with the administration of this Institution shall be held responsible and ac countable for visiting speakers on our campuses. And to that end the administration will adopt rules and precautionary measures consistent with the policy herein set forth regarding the invitations to and appearance of visiting speakers. These rules and pre cautionary measures shall be subject to the approval of the Trustees. BULLDOGS FOR 1965-66 Name No. Ht. Wt. Pos. Yr. BAKER, Jim 21 5’11” 150 G 3 Fletcher, N. C. BRADSHAW, Morris - 5’11” 145 G 1 Asheville, N. C. CHAPMAN, Bill 23 5’9” 140 G 1 North'Cove, N.( GARVIN, Joe 20 6’0” 145 G 2 Jacksonville, Fla GREEN, Jerry 31 6’3” 175 F 4 Inman, S. C. HALL, Ronnie 24 6’ 4” 170 F 1 Asheville, N. C. HEARN, Jim - 6’3” 185 F 1 Asheville, N. C. LINDLEY, Tom 25 5’9” 170 G 3 Kokomo, Ind. ROWLAND, Larry - 6’2” 180 F 1 Asheville, N. C. SAWYER, Bob - 6’ 0” 175 G 1 AsheviUe, N. C. WHITE, Bill 32 6’ 5” 180 C 4 Morganton, N. C WHITENER, Gary 22 6’1” 150 G 1 Nappanee, Ind. ZENTZ, Jim 30 6’6” 185 C 1 Kokomo, Ind. CAMDEN, Denny - 6’4” 195 C 1 Jacksonville, Fla COLORS - BLUE AND WHITE BULLDOGS OFF TO GOOD START Friday night, Dec. 26, saw the Mars Hill Lions and the Ashe ville-Biltmore Bulldogs play host to the St. Andrews Knights and the Wilmington Sea Hawks. The first game pitted the Lions a- gainst the powerful Sea Hawks as the Holiday tournament start ed. This first game resembled an intersquad battle between the Sandy Mush JV’s. Both teams were definitely off balance and showed it in the crude style of play. However, height in the form of 6’ 6” Jim Baxton was the deciding factor as the Sea- hawks crushed Mars Hill 87-68. In the second game on friday night, the Bulldogs played a scrappy St. Andrews team. The Knights were definitely the bet ter ball handlers and made the A-B squad look very poor as they kept the lead for most of the first quarter. However, the Bulldogs would not be denied as sparkplug Jim Baker, scoring 28 points, and rebounder Bill White got the team in high gear trounc ing the Presbyterians 82-68. Saturday night saw the Mars Hill squad take a slim margin over the St. Andrews team in the early moments and and extend it slowly but surely. At the half. Mars Hill had opened the gap 39-30. The Lions couldn’t seem to do anything wrong the second half as they trounced the luckless Knights 77-60. High scorer for the Lions was Pat Sams with 15 points. Larry Taylor, the Knights’ fantastic sparkplug and ball handler, took the squad and game honors with 28 points. The second game proved to be the battle of the giants as both undefeated teams met to decide the winner of the Holiday Tourn ament. From the “grapevine” Wilmington was picked as the winner. However word must have gotten into the Bulldogs dressing room as they put on a tremendous team effort for the estimated crowd of 1,(XX). Wilm ington took a lead early but A-B remained close on the tail feath ers of the Seahawks. With 10 minutes left in the first half the Bulldogs began to work their kinks out. At 6:15 left, White tied the game 23-23 with a foul shot. The Bulldogs led for a moment at 5:20 with a jump shot by Baker. However, Jay Neary, a previous A-B draft candidate, and big Jim Baxton began to click so that the Sea Hawks led continued on page 4

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