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The Gas Light
September 20, 1972
Consortium Aids
Are Outlined
by
Pat O’Brien
A service offered to Gaston
students is not being taken
advantage of, according to ail
available evidence. This service
can provide the student a place in
a class he needs, permit him to
take a course on another campus
and count it toward graduation,
or save him miles of driving and
hours of driving time.
The service is offered through
the Charlotte Area Educational
Consortium..Here’s how it works:
if you need History 212, for
example, and the classes are all
closed at your college, you could
conceiveably take the course at
Central Piedmont, UNC-Charlotte,
or at any other of the member
colleges. If you are taking a course
of study at UNC-Charlotte and
you need to pick up a course you
missed as a sophomore, you could
perhaps take it at Gaston College
and count it toward your credit
hours at Charlotte.
The member schools are
Barber-Scotia College, Belmont
Abbey College, Central Piedmont
Community College, Davidson
College, Gaston College, Johnson
C. Smith University, Queens
College, Sacred Heart College,
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, and Wingate College.
To take advantage of these
opportunities, see either Dr.
George McSwain, Mr. Horace
CHne, or Mr. Bruce TrammeU here
at Gaston. After picking up the
necessary forms, fill them out and
take them to college offering the
course needed and register. After
processing the papers, take them
back to your own college and pay
the fees there. The process is the
same for ail colleges participating
in the consortium.
If a course is available at your
own institution, you will not be
able to take it under the
consortium arrangement.
Art Film Series
To Be Presented
by
Joe Cline
Pioneers of Modem Painting,
the new six-part film series
written and narrated by Kenneth
Clark, will be shown at Sacred
Heart College beginning
September 21 at 8:00 p.m. in
Warde Hall.
The series will continue on
Thursday evenings through
October 26. The public is invited
to see all of the films in the series
free of charge.
The new series covers the life
and works of six leading artists of
the late 19th and early 20th
centuries: Edouard Manet, Paul
Cezanne, Claude Monet, Georges
Seurat, Henri Rousseau, and
Edvard Munch. A 45-minute color
fibn has been devoted to each of
the six artists whom Lord Clark
considers to be “the pioneers of
what we still call modern
painting.”
Most of the series was filmed in
France, with the exception of
Edvard Munch, which was
photographed in Norway, the
Artist’s native country. Lord
Clark has not relied solely,
however, on the paintings found
in the artists’ own country. For
instance, thirteen of the works
discussed in the series are hanging
in the National Gallery of Art in
Washington. Others are in
museums and private collections
all over the world.
Pioneers of Modern Painting
was produced by Colin Clark,
Lord Clark’s son. Although Colin
Clark has been a television
producer since 1956, this is the
first father-son venture.
Gaston College students may
obtain more information on the
film series by contacting Mr.
Dexter Benedict in the art
department or Joe S. Cline at the
Learning Resources Center.
Christian Ethics
Meeting Planned
There will be a meeting next
Tuesday, September 19 in room
202 for all who wish to join the
Christian Etliics Club. The club
wUl meet every Tuesday at 11
A.M. The club is designed to
promote Christianity on the
campus and spread the gospel.
At their meetings they will
have Bible study, prayer, and
general fellowship. They plan to
help initiate Christian ethics clubs
in high schools in the community.
They will also sponsor Christmas
parties for underprivileged
children in Gaston County.
Sarge Setzer is the sponsor of
the club. Any one interested
should contact either Mr. Setzer
or any one of the club members
pictured.
Burroughs Predicts ^Banner
Year’ For Intramurals
by
Paul Holman
“This will be the biggest year
ever for intramural sports at
Gaston College,” Dean Burroughs
has promised. Burroughs, who is
head of the Physical Education
department, says that there will
be fourteen different sports
activities during the year — in
addition to the physical education
class activities.
“We will involve a larger
number of students than ever
before,” he observed. “And that’s
what it’s all about.”
Fall Quarter activities will
include flag football, bowling, the
cross-country “turkey trot,” and
archery. Bowling and archery will
be co-educational.
Flag football will begin on
Tuesday, September 25. Six-man
teams wiU again be used, and
Burroughs wants at least six to
eight teams entered. He
emphasizes that anyone who
wishes to enter a team may do so
simply by getting a roster and
turning it in to him. Deadline for
rosters is Monday, September 24.
All games will be played on
Tuesday or Thursday on the
athletic field. Game times will be
three or four o’clock.
Six teams are needed for the
bowling intramural league. Time
for bowling is nine p.m. on
Monday nights at Major League
Lanes. The schedule will run from
September 17 until the final week
before exams.
The “turkey trot” consists of a
mile-long cross country run. First
prize is a turkey, complete with
all the accessories, including
feathers and life. “Last year we
gave away a ten-pound live
CHRISTIAN ETHICS CLUB — Shown above are some of the
members of the Gaston Christian Ethics Club, which is headed by Rick
Stroup, fourth from left. Stroup urges all interested members to
contact him or other members of the club. All students are invited to
attend the meetings.
Cameron And Compony Invade Chicago
turkey,” Burroughs remembers,
“and no one had the heart to kill
it. So we had to return it to the
farm.” This year the turkey trot
will again be held during the week
prior to Thanksgiving, so that the
winner will have plenty of turkey
for his holiday meal or plenty of
time in which to find a good
home for the bird.
Probably the biggest item on
the sports calendar is the Spring
Bonanza. This will be a carnival
type of activity. Burroughs
explains, and will include contests
of all types, including the
penny-toss, ring-tossing, clown
dunking, basketball shooting,
greased pig chase, greased-pole
climb, sock races, and cage ball.
Cage ball?
Burroughs asks that all
students and clubs who wish to
have a booth at the Bonanza make
plans early and consult with him
as to the nature and scope of the
booths. There wiU be prizes
awarded to winning contestants in
all events. There will be
late-winter meetings of all
interested persons and groups.
And the cage ball has to be
ordered.
Cage ball?
“Yes, cage ball,” Burroughs
responds. “It’s a combination of
football and volleyball. The only
difficulty is that you use an
eight-foot ball.”
Eight-foot ball?
Schedule of intramural
activities planned for the coming
year, In column five of this page.
A few days ago Eddie Cameron
of Gaston College went
downtown to Memorial Hall to
hear his brother and a group of
others banging out “the only
three songs they knew” and he
wound up playing cymbals for the
American Legion Drum and Bugle
Corps at the National Convention
in Chicago. “I just drove down
Franklin Avenue and the next
thing I knew I was marching down
State Street,” Cameron said.
It was a good convention,
Eddie reports. “We marched a
mile and a fourth in a parade that
lasted from ten in the morning
until five in the afternoon, and we
played ‘I Saw the Light’ a few
times. The rest of the time was
spent in touring and having fun.”
Cameron reacted favorably to
Chicago. “It was the cleanest large
city I have ever seen,” he reports.
“Ever since they changed the
direction of the Chicago River,
everything is better.” The river
once flowed into Lake Michigan,
but through engineering miracles
it now carries the pollution in the
opposite direction. But not
toward Ranlo.
Cameron goes even further.
“Northern hospitality has
Southern hospitality beaten,” he
claims. “Th^ only disagreeable
parts of Chicago are that they
haven’t discovered grits yet and
you have to be 21 in order lo do a
lot of things.” He didn’t elaborate
on what “a lot of things” might
be.
The only disappointment was
that they were unable to locate a
single Mafia member. Not even a
run-of-the-mill gangster. “We did
have one incident,” he recalls.
“One of our boys liked to jog
fifteen miles every morning, and
one day a gang tried to mug him.”
What happened? Cameron
shrugs. “He just ran off and left
them. The hoods in Cliicago are
very inefficient.”
The American Legion Drum
and Bugle Corps makes a habit of
attending national conventions,
and the corps is in need of
members.
“To become a member,”
Cameron says, “you attend
practice at Memorial Hall, beside
the library. You have to be able to
play a bugle a little. After nine
practices you are voted on. 1
won’t say competition is fairly
weak, but I don’t think they ever
turned anybody down.”
Right now there is a big drive
Eddie Cameron
for new members. “Be at the hall
on Monday nights from 7:30 till
9:00,” Cameron offers. “That’s all
there is to it. Ages of members
range from seventeen to fifty-six.
Right now there are twenty-seven
members.”
What about the cost of
attending a convention?
“I really had to make a
sacrifice to attend the Chicago
convention,” Cameron says. “The
Legion pays your transportation
expenses and also your room.
What 1 had to sacrifice was greater
than money, though. I,had to give
up the second session of summer
school in order to go.”
Cameron’s brother, Don, a
former Gaston student, is also in
the Corps. Don is now at UNC in
Chapel Hill where he is studying
pharmacy. Their father, Fairley
Cameron, is a Gaston faculty
member. Eddie plans to study
electrical engineering at State
after he leaves Gaston. “And bring
back the electric chair,” he warns.
Right now he is concentrating
on practices for the next
convention, which is to be held in
Hawaii. While plans are not final,
the corps hopes to march down
Waikiki Beach next summer.
Cameron urges prospective
members to come out to the
practices. “Bring your bugle,” he
warns. “Or fight me for my
cymbals.”
His one disillusionment is that
practice has not helped his
literature grade. “I don’t
understand it,” he complains. “I
thought literature concentrated
on cymbalism.”
That ended the interview.
Administration Stars Slaugiiter Faculty Slobs
(UPI — Underpaid Professional
Instructors)
The most recent game (contest
would not be the right word)
between administration and
faculty, the administration
softball team overwhelmed,
walked over, whipped up on,
defeated, blistered, decimated,
crunched, devastated, trounced,
ground up, and finally squeaked
by to a 15-10 victory over a
sloppy, inept, often inert,
uncoordinated, listless, abject,
uninspired faculty team.
The administrators (erstwhile
known as the Dizzy Deans) were
sparked by Muscles McSwain,
formerly known as Old Aches and
Pain McSwain; by Devastating
Dean Jones, also recognized by his
other title, “Twinkletoes”; by
Jolting Joe Mills,, (no relation to
his uncle, General Mills);
Galloping Horace Cline (nothing
personal implied); Sensational
Sam “Scooter” Scott, a pitcher
whose favortie is the highball; plus
a glittering array of multitalented
individuals who performed like
professionals.
The faculty, on the other hand,
(which is where they should have
by
Coward Wholesale
worn their gloves), was
handicapped by the presence of
Worn-out Warren, Draggy Dennis
Perry, Bill “Flipper” Farrell,
Rusty Russ Keck, Draggy Don
McGinnis, and Fuzz McSwain.
The faculty can’t even emulate
the U.S. Olympic basketball
team’s efforts and cry “Foul,”
because the official scorekeeper
was the wife of a faculty member
(however, it should be noted that
the assistant scorekeeper is the
son of an administrator).
That’s the entire sordid story.
In the first game, the faculty won
an abbreviated game because of a
thunderstorm that washed out the
game with the faculty leading. A
non-objective reporter for THE
GAS LIGHT took the
opportunity to attack, slander,
malign, and misquote the
administration mercilessly, and
this story is written for no other
purpose than to set the record
straight that the
administration won an
unqualified, clear-cut, honest
victory. The third game in the
series will be played in the near
future, and it is probably certain
that the administration will again
show their superiority to the inept
faculty.
(Note to Dr. Joseph Mills,
Dean of the Academic Division:
We have done as you asked. We
have acceded to your every
request. NOW may the faculty
members pick up their paychecks,
credit cards, and hostage
children?)
Gaston College Intramural
Sports Schedule
1972-73
Sports Activity
Quarter
Football
Fall
Bowling (Coed)
Fall-Winter
Cross Country “Turkey Trot Fall
Archery (Coed)
Fall
Basketball
Winter
Table Tennis (Coed)
Winter
Foul Shooting (Coed)
Spring
Softball
Spring
Swimming (Coed)
Winter
Horse Shows (Coed)
Spring
Volleyball
Spring
Tennis (Coed)
Spring
Golf (Coed)
Spring
Spring Bonanza
Spring