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Film. Society Organizing;
Seeks Members and Suggestions
The UNC-A Film Society met
December 3 to discuss its
method of financing and
scheduling of films.
Professor Goetz Wolff and
Arnold Wengrow were the first to
push for such an organization at
UNC-A. Their express aim is to
make available to the students,
faculty and staff of UNC-A, as
well as the WNC community
those films which explore and
experiment with that media of
communication. The films to be
shown by the film society are
more than mere pictures and are
not likely to be shown at any of
the local theatres, according to
Wolff and Wengrow. The films
are experimental and
provocative.
The first problem
encountered by the society is
the financing of the films. The
range of rental rates for the films
extends from $20, to over $250.
If the society receives the
necessary backing from the
"The Stronger" First
Offering of Forum Series
Theatre UNC Asheville will
present the first production in
its new Forum Theatre series on
Wednesday, December 16 at
3:30 p.m. in Lipinsky
Auditorium.
The play is August
Strindberg’s one-act “The
Stronger,” directed by Melinda
Pearlman. Featured in the cast
are Marlene Smith and Pat
Martin.
“The Stronger” concerns two
women, a wife and a mistress,
and the man they both share.
When the women meet by
chance in a cafe on Christmas
eve, a tense and unusual
confrontation takes place.
Mrs, Pearlman, the director,
describes the play as “a tale of
silent strength and voluble
silence, tale of grownups all
torn down.”
Admission to Forum Theatre
is free. Coffee will be served at
3:00 in the auditorium, with the
play beginning at 3:30 p.m. The
audience will sit on the stage
itself, and a discussion with the
director and cast will be held
immediately following the
performance.
Other plays in the Forum
Theatre series are James
Prideaux’s “Lemonade,”
directed by Vince Carmen on
Jan. 11; George Bernard Shaw’s
“How He Lied to Her Husband,”
directed by Pat Martin on Jan.
13; and Archibald MacLeish’s
“This Music Crept By Me Upon
the Waters,” directed by David
Anders on Jan. 18.
students, faculty and staff,
UNC-A could concievably see
four or five films sponsored by
the film society third and fourth
term.
Under the present plan,
Professor Wolff hopes to raise a
minimum of $500. The plan
calls for the receipt of funds in
three ways Faculty will be
asked to purchase season tickets
at the rate of $5 for one and
$7.50 for two. Students will be
asked to purchase season tickets
at the rate of $3 per ticket. The
Divisions will be asked to
•contribute $75 of their
respective division budgets, in
addition, there will be a gate fee
of $.75 per student and $1.25
for faculty who have not
purchased season tickets.
At present, Wolff and
Wengrow plan to reserve five
films. Wolff notes, however, that
it is very difficult to reserve the
films since they are in such high
demand at other liberal arts
schools.
If the society fails to raise the
amount of money called for, the
plans would be scuttled and
everyone would receive a refund
of their contribution.
If the society does receive the
funds, in March a mimeographed
list of films would be sent
around to all subscribers and the
members would select what
films they would like to see.
There is a whole world of
cinema that the UNC-A
audiences have yet to see
presented regularly in this type
of program. The works of
Bergman, Jean Cocteau,
Antinioni, Fellini, Godard and
many others have largely failed
to mak6 it to UNC-A. The film
society would attempt to right
(see Film Society, page 3)
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Blood Drive: January 12
Again this year. Circle K will sponsor a Blood Drive in cooperation with the American Red Cross.
The Blood Drive will take place on January 12 from 9 until 3 in the Student Center.
Blood will be badly needed by the Red Cross at that tim? due to the holiday accident rates but
blood is always needed, and if you’ve ever given blood before, you know what a simple procedure it
is. The whole process only takes minutes and Is virtually painless.
The Red Cross never sells the blood you donate. And while everyone is scared before their first
donation, medical complications are very rare. There is always a,need for all types of blood and it
must be supplied by donors like yourself.
You may donate blood with parental consent at 18 and 21 otherwise. Less than a pint of blood is
taken in the process and there is usually no weakness.
Last year, the Circle K-sponsored project saw a good turn-out and the organization is hoping for
an even better supported event this year. For information, contact Tom Barrett, Bill Coonan or any
member of Circle K. Remember that’s Jan. 12 from 9-3.
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Bass guitarist and singer for Peace , Core, the hard rock group
which headlined the concert Saturday night of Homecoming wraps
up a song. The concert also featured Kin, the folk group featured by
the Apocalypse all that week.
By all indicators. Homecoming was better attended than past
years and the debt incurred by the SGA which exceeded $3,000 was
softened a bit by the revenue obtained from the concert.
Food Drive
Begun at UNC-A
A coalition of most of the
social and all of the service
organizations of UNC-A has
pledged a food drive in the
Asheville community for the
needy this Christmas.
The present chairman and
initiator of the drive is Joe
Fogarty, a freshman. Fogarty
stated that the aim of the drive
is “to collect as much food as
possible for distribution to
needy families for Christmas.
According to Fogarty, the
participating organizations will
be Sigma Delta Upsilon, Alpha
Chi Omega, Alphna Nu Lambda,
and Kappa Delta Tau for the
social groups: Alpha Phi
Omega, Circle K and K-ettes
representing the service groups.
Fogarty went on to say that
the basement of 1 Dorm will be
the collection point for his
envisioned city-wide drive. There
had been a meeting Thursday,
December 3 to finalize plans for
the drive and Fogarty envisiones
a plan that would divide the
entire city into sectors and then
each organizations would be
given a sector to work in,
Fogarty said that he hoped
that the organization^ would
conduct a door-to-door
campaign.
The food will be given to the
Salvation Army the day before
UNC-A breaks for Christmas,
December 21. According to
Fogarty, the Salvation Army has
lists of families who are in most
need of assistance.
This drive, however, is open
to participation on the parts of
all students. Fogarty stated that
more manpower than the
organizations is needed to
accomplish the task. He said that
“we’ll need as many students as
possible whether they are
members of organizations or
not.
The drive began Dec. 6 and is
planned to close Dec. 21. By the
time this paper is available, there
will be only a week more of the
drive to get in on. Anyone
interested should contact Joe
Fogarty.