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New Club
Chartered
The Gardner-Webb College
Collegiate Clvitan Club has been
chartered and the group’s presi
dent is Danny Cook. The officers
were installed and the charter
approved during a joint meeting of
the two groups with more than one
hundred in attendance.
The club charter was presented
to Cook by Paul Ridenhour, of
Murphy, N. C. Civitan governor, of
the North Carolina District West.
Others on the program included
Jack Creech, chairman of the com
mittee which helped organize the
college group; Rev. Ernest Page,
chaplin, of the Shelby Civitan
Club; Fred Sikes, president, of the
Shelby Civitan Club; Gene Farmer,
chairman, North Carolina District,
West; and David L. Friday, Lt,
Governor, Area 3, North Carolina
West Civitan International.
Fain Hamrick, of the Shelby
Civitan, is the club advisor and
Steve Curtis, a member of the
Gardner-Webb College faculty is
the institutional representative.
A total of thirty-two Gardner-
Webb students were installed in
the new club. Danny is the presi
dent and Ginger Yates is the new
club’s secretary.
The club has been organized
under the leadership of Jack
Creech, of the Shelby Civitan Club,
and the cooperation of BiU Briggs,
coordinator of student personnel
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31,1974
GARDNER-WEBB HAS NEW STUDENT CIVITAN CLUB-The
Gardner-Webb College Collegiate Civitan Club has been organized and
chartered. Paul Ridenhour, standing left, Civitan governor, presented the
charter to Danny Cook, right, of Gardner-Webb. Cook is the president of
^ new club.
Basketball
Feb. 16
Gardner-Webb
vs
Bryan College
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In Memory
Of
A man died in a plane cmsh.
He was a beautiful man who
gave a beautiful concert to
Gardner-Webb last year. Many
of us will remember that concert
as an experience made only
dearer by that man's death.
That man was Jim Croce, pop
singer. The SGA has contri-
tnbuted $100 to have his name
placed in the “Book of Memory”
in the CID lounge. This was so
little to do fora man who's spirit
will live forever and bring happi
ness to countless members of
people through his songs.
First
Home Baseball
Game
March 15
Concord College
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WGWGOnAir
A veteran of more than 20 years
in radio work, EUis Greenway, of
Hickory, has been named manager
of Gardner-Webb College’s new FM
non-commercial radio station, ac
cording to Dr. E. Eugene Poston,
president of the college.
Greenway, a graduate of Lenior
Rhyne College, has served radio
stations in Lenior, Statesville,
Hickory, Valdese and Winston-
Salem. He served as sales manager
of WSUM, Valdese and as station
manager of WFCM, Winston-
He also worked Lenoir Rhyne
‘Drama From
San Quentin’
“The Cage,” an explosive survi
val drama written inside San
Quentin by Rick Cluchey who re
searched it during 12 years of im
prisonment will be performed at
Gardner-Webb on February 26.
The compelling 80 minute one-
act play is performed by ex-con
victs, both on parole and off, and
sets four characters in motion
around a toilet bowl, acting out
liturgical and legal fantasies with
often hilarious but ultimately lethal
Although it describes the horror
and brutality of prison life, the play
is not primarily a caU for prison re
form or a protest against the injus
tices of the American judicial
system. Instead, it is an intricate
and profound statement about the
mythic structures of society, which
we create and to which we give
obeisance, in order to hide from the
ugly truths about ourselves. Of the
desperate need for revolutionary
“The Cage” is a clear and poignant
testimony.
Author Cluchey and Ken
Whelan, his partner in the Barb-
wire Theater that they formed after
being released and following nine
years of active participation in the
San Quentin Workshop, consider
the play a work in progress. It has
changed during three national
tours with the political climate of
the country, incorporating new re
ferences to such major national
issues as Attica and the Marin
County courthouse shootout that
brought Angela Davis into interna
tional prominence.
Whelan, who has acted the
‘Jesus freak’ role of Hatchett in
dominating the four walled cage,
explains its purpose this way:
“We’re trying to show the conse
quences of caging people who have
problems, to show how this aggra
vates and magnifies problems.
There are no heroes. ”
In plot and action, “The Cage” is
as earthy as anything on or off-
Broadway. In this taut, relevant
drama that touches on moral, reli
gious and social issues, were the
thin Une between fantasy, and real
ity is reminiscent of the absurdist
plays of Genet, Pinter and Beckett,
Hatchett shouts “This is not a cell.
Cells represent life. Cages repre
sent death! Understood?”
Allegorically reflecting society
as a whole, “The Cage” makes an
intellectual, dynamic and abstract
statement of which the prison is
only a microcosm.
Since being paroled ‘for Ufe’ in
1966 at age 33, Cluchey has dedi
cated himself to developing crea
tive outlets in acting, music and li
terary fields for former inmates.
Several Barbwire Theater alumnus
have since become film actors and
playwrights.
President’s Column
Hello 74, Good-Bye Tricky Dick
football games for 16 years and
basketball for eight years. He is a
native of Hickory and a graduate of
Hildebran High School. He
attended Southeastern Baptist
Seminary, in Wake Forest. He is
the son of Mrs. George Greenway,
Hickory. Mr. and Mrs. Greenway
have three children; Charles, of
Hickory; Mike, serving in the U.S.
Navy, in Virginia Beach and
George, who is a high school stu-
The station will have a power of
5,000 watts and its call letters will
be WGWG and it will be 88.3 on the
FM dial.
Our government for the past two
hundred years has been somewhat
of an experiment. Our ancestors ex
plicitly admitted that they were
» “our livi
and our sacred h.
unproved theory that democracy is
a viable form of government. The
knowledge then available was
worse than imperfect, it was de
finitely negative. Every previous
effort to test the theory had ended
in the same way—a reversion to
According to John Adams, one-
third of the Americans of 1776 did
not believe that the experiment had
a ghost of a chance. There were
even thousands that left the
country and some even took up
arms in support of the King. So it is
apparent that our democratic start
was quite shaky.
Many Americans today believe
that democracy is the best form of
government that has yet entered
into the mind of man to conceive.
We assume that Thomas Jefferson
was neither drunk nor crazy when
he asserted that a society of free
men, given all the facts necessary
to intelligent judgement, can
govern themselves better than any-
le else can gove
n. Of CO
they cannot act directly, but only
through agents of their choice.
Then, fellow students, I begin to
doubt whether democracy is really
working effectively, especially
when on our own free will we
elected Richard Nixon twice. Are
we really governing ourselves pro
perly by making that type of deci
sion? Even today some people still
support Nixon.
Since his most recent election,
which was tainted with fraud,
many people, including myself
doubt Nixon. The fact that a slush
of at least $50 million was as
sembled supports the belief that
every vote that could be bought
was bought. Henry Kissinger’s
misleading announcement, made
just before the voting, that “peace
is at hand” gave Nixon ten votes
for every one that he purchased.
I guess the Nixon supporters of
1974 would not even change if
Moses and Elijah rose from the
dead to testify. Indeed, loyal Nixon
people can’t believe, because to do
so would be an admission that they
had been played for suckers, and
for a certain type of American to
admit that he had bought a gold
brick is psychologically impossible.
It came as a traumatic shock to
me to learn of Nixon’s actions and
his staff of men who would disgrace
the nation eventually. His palace
guard would meet to plot burglary,
bribery, perjury, forgery, and slan
derous defamation of honest demo
crats, not to stuff their purses, but
to fasten their grips upon power
that belongs to the people. What
does this suggest about the ability
of people to govern themselves as
Jefferson once said?
1974 offers the greatest challenge
ever in the American poUtical sys
tem. Let us take steps in assuring
that democracy can still work. Let
us learn to govern ourselves again.
Write your congressman; they
want to know how you feel about
impeachment. Democracy can still
work if we as students get involved
in what is right.