Letters
to the
Editors
Dear SGA:
I have been a student at Gaston College for three quarters
now. During those three quarters 1 have attended exactly two
functions that were sponsored by the Student Government
Association.
One of those functioiis had very few people participating and
the other had a good turn out. I now think I have found a reason
for low participation. There is very little publicity for these
events, and what publicity there is, is usually too late to do any
good.
After talking to some fellow students, we have come up with
a suggestion. Why not give our campus newspaper proper
advance notice? Since our student fees pay for these functions,
let us know about them in advance. The Gaslight would be glad
to help publicize these events, but they have had little
cooperation in the past to do so. I wonder if the Broadcasting
Department will have the same problem when the college
station goes on the air.
Karen Hinson
OUR
BRITISH
HERITAGE
Bob Blanton will be teaching Gaston’s first travel-study course
during the second session of Summer School. The course will
consist of three weeks of lectures at Gaston College and two
exciting weeks in Great Britain. History 280 has been approved
for 6 college credit hours or 4 teacher renewal credits.
The approximately $950 tour will provide roundtrip travel
from Charlotte to London, all baggage handling while in
England, hotel accomodations (double occupancy) with private
bath optional, breakfast each morning, sightseeing tours,
theatre tickets, instructor-guides to well known attractions,
insurance, shopping tours and much more.
Aside from the tour price, a tuition fee of $19.50 and a $14.00
passport fee will be charged. Of course you will need spending
money.
A person signing up can not take any other second session
course or a summer quarter course because of the two weeks
absence from campus.
To reserve your space on the tour, send $150.00 deposit per
person to Bob Blanton, Box 32, Gaston College, Dallas, N.C.,
28034 no later than May 15, 1978. Reservation fees are not
refundable after June 15, 1978. Make checks payable to Gaston
College.
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Sarah Cantrell
Attention all Academic
Division students! Your
gradoation application for
Sommer Graduation must be
turned in to Office C-101 on
»r before May 26, 1978,
12:00 noon in order for them
to be processed to meet the
Registrar’s June 2, 1978
Deadline.
Co-Editors: Sandra Jenkins
Sarah Cantrell
Typists: Sandi Merkel
Wanda Warren
Photographer:
Frank Carothers
Cartoons: by Blanton
Advisor; Dennis Perry
Upon constultatlon with the
College Attorney concerning
General Statute 14-269.2 die
Dean of Students Is re
questing that all students
who are police officers be
informed that unless they are
acting in the discharge of
their official duties, they are
In violation of state law
should they wear any
weapons on campus. Thto
also Includes security guards
employed by private com
panies. Since our students
are good citizens desiring to
adhere to the laws of the
State of North Carolina and
even going beyond this In
desiring to set an example
for the general population
with which they come in
contact, die Dean Is certain
that they win be liappy to
cooperate by refraining from
wearing weapons on campus.
Club News
BSU
The Brothers and Sisters United (BSU) are planning to have
a Bake Sale on May 12 in the Technical Building. Come on over
on that day and help us make this sale a success.
The Bethleham Church of Gastonia has asked the BSU to be
a patron of their musical program which will be held on May 21,
1978. This will be voted upon at the next BSU meeting.
The BSU is trying to aquire new members at this time. If you
are interested in joining (or would like to know about this
organization) please feel free to attend our meetings on Fridays
at 12 noon in Room T-217.
BSU elections will be held the last week in May; anyone
interested in running please contact the president, A.C.
Sherrill.
Kathi Hunt
FOREIGN LANGUAGE SOCIETY
The Foreign Lai^guage Society will be participating in the
Gaston College Club Day to be held on Wednesday, May 10 in
the courtyard of the Myers Center. Club members who will be
dressed in foreign costumes will again prepare and sell
Mexican tacos and French crepes which proved to be very
popular during National Foreign Language Week held in
March. Strolling menstrels will play and sing foreign songs and
games may be played in our booths.
On Tuesday, May 16, the Foreign Language Society will
sponsor the Bloodmobile which will be on the campus in the
Myers Center. All students, faculty, staff, and administration
are greatly encouraged to support this very worthwhile project.
Sarah Dixon
OUTING CLUB
Now that the spring quarter is well underway, the Outing
Club is becoming active once again. The purpose of the club is
to participate in all kinds of outings—hikes, canoe trips,
camping, etc. Anyone who would like to join in the activities
should contact Rhonda Watford, Susan Jenkins, Bob Blanton,
Bill Farrell, or Barbara Baker.
The club members are busy now making plans for their races
to be held on Club Day. There will be a $.50 entry fee per race
for four preliminary races leading up to a final race (a sack,
potato roll, apple bobbing race) with the winner walking away
with a gift certificate from Moffatt Falls’ Food Stores. Outing
Club members will also be on hand to sell lemonade to all the
thirsty participants.
Barbara Baiter
AEYC
AEYC is glad to report their paper drive was a success. The
money raised was used to help send Early Childhood students
to a National Convention. AEYC extends a million thanks to all
who participated.
AEYC has decided to continue with its paper drive efforts.
We would like to help purchase supplies for our Day Care
Center. Please continue to save your paper. Contact Dr. Janet
Johnston (V-13a) and club members will collect your paper.
Thank-you again!
Sandra Kafitz
If any of you have ever gone by the Registrar’s Office during
the beginning of a quarter or at its end, you have seen the
ladies of this office madly shuffling paperwork and cards, so
that you will receive your grades, transcripts, applications for
graduation, diplomas, and whatever else you need at the right
time and in the right manner. Many people complain if the
least little thing goes wrong, yet few bother to praise them for
everything that goes right. I think it is time someone says
“Thank you” to all of the people in the Registrar’s Office.
I found a poem the other day that sums what I am trying to
say to these people. I think they live up to it.
“IF” FOR REGISTRARS
By CAROLESAU
If yon can keep your cool when all about yon are losing theirs
and blaming it on you,
If you can pace yourself when others push you yet try to meet
their many wishes too,
If you wait and not be filled with anguish when faculty their
deadlines do not meet.
Or being unthanked, don’t give way and languish but rise again
and not admit defeat.
If you can smile at grades and courses scrambled by some
computer having its own way,
And learn to cope with courses dropped and added while
having class roils run without delay.
If you can face an irate student whose transcript ever seems to
stray.
And promise him it wiU be sent tomorrow, though well you
know the postman will delay.
If you can keep attendance for your veterans and questionnaires
complete well in advance.
And promise Washington and Buckley that all their rules are
never left to chance.
Then you have reached the goals yon have been seeking toward
which your efforts evermore will tend.
Your school will find its goals you have been meeting, and what
is more, you’ll be a Registrar, my friend.
The GASLIGHT lifts its hat to the Registrar’s Office.
Sarah Cantrell
LITERARY GUILD
Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for “A Delicate Balance” in
1968, and “Seascape” in 1975, Edward Albee spoke at UNCC
Thursday night, April 6. His subject: the communication gap
between those who make art and those who receive it. As a
playwright, he is aware of the tremendous gap between himself
and his audiences, and he dealt with this problem in a way that
kept his audience spellbound. Many famous writers are a
disappointment as speakers; Edward Albee was a welcome
exception.
He spoke of his fear that the American public is using art as
an escape rather than an enjoyable engagement. “The artist
today is a servant used by a spoiled and self-deluding
audience,” he said.
“The artist is the truth-teller, and the public should use art
to tell it the truth about itself.”
“Society needs artists to reexamine and question values, not
to reaffirm their validity.”
Albee sees a semantic collapse between the artist and the
public. “We have an extraordinary opportunity to make use of
the truth which the artist is telling us,” he said.
Concurrent with the election of John F. Kennedy, a cultural
explosion took place in America. In the late sixties, however,
we began a cultural regression. There has been a retrenchment
from full participation in the arts since the late sixties. The
dialogue between audience and artist has ceased. It should be
started again.
“Creating,” said Mr. Albee, “in the form of writing or
otherwise, is itself a form of optimism in that it assumes there
will be an audience somewhere to read, see, or listen to the art
form.”
When someone in the audience during the question and
answer period at the end of the talk, voiced a complaint about
Mecklenburg and Gaston Counties being culturally deficient,
Edward Albee’s answer in a nutshell was that you don’t have to
be in a cultural center to participate in the arts, you have to be
culturally centered. Being culturally centered is an attitude and
has nothing to do with the place where on lives. He mentioned
the fact that every serious play now on Broadway in New York
had begun somewhere in a small town in America. He also said
that he read books and listened to concerts in New York, but
that he read books and listened to phonograph records in his
home. He voiced the desire that culture not be considered
“exotic or faintly obscene” and wished that it could be more a
part of our daily lives.
When asked to comment on his satisfaction with the movie
version of “Virginia Woolf”, his answer was quite favorable.
He said a screenplay was written and submitted by Richard
Lehman, but when Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor with
Mike Nichols read Lehman’s script, they refused to be a part of
the movie. So, Burton and Taylor carrying a great deal of clout
in “those days”, Albee’s original script was used in the film.
Mr. Albee voiced few complaints about the final production of
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’.
Lynne Pope