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EDITORIALS
NSA Politics
Or Student Gov’t
Once again the question has arisen of whether or not St, An
drews should become a member of the National Student Associa
tion, Last year a similar situation occurred when controversy
arose over St. Andrews’ joining the North State Student Govern
ment Association or NSA. Defendants for either side presented
their cases in issues of The Lance and through the Senate
Welfare Committee.
Over the last two weeks two hearings have been held by the ,
Senate- Welfare Committee, during which several students have
presented testimony concerning the NSA.
The main criticism of NSA that we can discern is the fact
that it has moved from a pure student government association
into the area of liberal politics. The following are the NSA stands
on political issues:
1. The NSA has the reputation of being anti-fraternity. This
is, of course, a ramification of its distinct stand on Civil
Rights. The NSA does not recognize the right of any organi
zation, business, etc., to discriminate for membership, ser
vice, or so forth,
2. The NSA recommends the abolition of the House Committee
on Un-American Actlvites.
3. The NSA opposes any loyalty oath (political or otherwise)
for students receiving federal loans for education.
4. The NSA denounces any measures of the United States to
achieve nuclear superiority,
5. The NSA criticizes United States foreign aid to Spain, Port
ugal, Republic of South Africa, Nicaragua, HaiU, Peru, Para
guay, Guatemala and Argentina, but does not mention aid
to Yugloslavia and Poland.
6. The NSA regrets the absence of contact with the All China
Student Federation, the Chinese Communist Student Union.
7. The NSA defends the Japanese student riots against former
President Eisenhower,
8. The NSA opposes the Cunningham Amendment which pro
hibits the distribution of Communist Propaganda through
the United States mail.
9. The NSA opposes the sections of the McCarren Act (Internal
Security Act) which: (a) prohibit from entry Into this coun
try those persons who at any time have lent their support
to a totalitarian government, who have held membership in
such an organization, and who have subscribed to the econo
mic or political doctrines of such a state; (b) require all
members of a Communist front, Communist action, or Com
munist infiltrated organization to register with the Attorney
General.
10. NSA praises Fidel Castro’s educational reforms and, at the
same time condemns Francisco Franco for student perse
cution.
11. NSA protests the discharge of Communist teachers.
EDtatl^-m-CHlEP CHARMS QUICK
ASSim'AJjf EDITOR JOSEPH McKE»JNEY
SPOR’rS EDITOR COURTNET SHIVES
BUSINESS MANAGER ROY WILSON
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THE LANCE
The Roving /
LONNIE MANN
Anti - Intellectualism at
The Gibson Theatre
perhaps my title seems rather
strange at first sight, but it is
somewhat obvious that intellect
ualism is taking a rather severe'
beating at the hands of super
ficially moreintrigueingtriviaU-
ties. Of course I have taken for
granted here that everyone has
com^ to college for an educa
tion and is conscious of the
meaning of the college experi
ence.
Although it is possible to treat
the many aspects of anti-intellec-
tualism on campus I would like
to discuss one particular area
in which it has made itself mani
fest. It is the fact that such a
large number of our students
elect to frequent the Gibson
Theater at which is shown much
of the “C” rate trash emanating
from Hollywood rather than the
excellent art films shown at the
Center. It is unfortunate that
these films are repetedly shown
at a loss to theatre management
and sparsely attended at a loss
to the intellect of our student
body.
Many students have taken the
attitude that these movies are
“crazy” just because they are
accustomed to viewing those
films which lend themselves to
sub-normal intelligence quoti
ents. The viewer then becomes
not unlike a plant reacting to
simple stimuli. Consequently the
“C” rate film becomes for him
a sixty-cent escape mechanism.
Escape films are good and neces
sary for college students in a
small town, I believe, but only
when balanced with a diet of films
containing more substance.
The student is by-passing a
grand opportunity to broaden his
intellectual and cultural horizons
by neglecting this brilliant series
of films. I have been to quite a
few and have never once been
disappointed. I honestly believe
that these films would well worth
everyone’s time and money and
could be an Important and in
tegral part of everyone’s col
lege experience.
Peace Corps
Tutors
Students
By CAROL PRIVETTE
Remember the boy sitting beside
you in grammar school, whose
recitations often brought
chuckles to the class? Because
he realized he was a source of
amusement, his distress and em
barrassment finally ended in
withdrawal from his classmates.
He most likely would ventually
be added to the drop-out list.
Today in the Laurlnburg area
there are children like this whose
classmates are passing them In
learning skills. Special class
time can not be devoted to these
pupils, yet the school admini
stration knows that these children
are capable of learning the funda
mental skills with outside help.
The St. Andrews Student
Christian Council Is Interested
in the situation facing Laurin-
burg, and the project committee
of the council hopes that by the
end of the semester St. Andrews
students will be devoting tutoring
time to academically deficient
children in the Laurinburg school
system. The tutors will not try
to make scholars of the child
ren, but will only teach them the
simple fundamentals they lack.
The project could eventual
ly turn into an extensive program.
Even if a few children could be
helped, the situation would be re
medied to some degree.
November 8, 1963
Series Being Shown
LettesTo
The Editor
(Editor’s Note - The following
letter was received in rebuttal
to the editorial entitled “The Ne
gro and the Tax Burden” which
appeared in the last issue of The
Lance. In certain Instances the
letter was edited, with the au
thor’s permission.)
Dear Editor:
Only a fool argues with sta
tistics, If they are accurate, and
I do not dispute the fact that in
some areas Negroes commit a
disproportionate share of crimes
and assume a smaller share of
the tax burdens and a larger
share of public welfare and bene
fits....There are, however, many
middle-class Negroes every bit
as ambitious and moral as their
white counterparts, and this mid
dle class is growlng...In the great
cities, where recent migration
from the South has created so
many social problems and re
quires so much personal adjust
ment and social adaptation, the
ratio of Negro crime is doubt
less larger, but this Is more of
a social than a racial condition.
One may argue, furthermore, that
Southern failure to provide
opportunities for their own peo
ple accounts for this migration
and that part of the responsibili
ty rests, therefore, on our own
shoulders.
On a purely financial basis, the
Negro does pay his own way.
You must take into considera
tion the low wages he receives
for his work; the fact that his
torically he has been assigned a
caste status in society and wall
ed off from full participation in
the American way of life so that
his education, health, moral stan
dards and so on have been im
paired
We say we want the Negro to
earn equality—although we are
less insistent that lower class
whites do the same—but do we
really mean what we say? The
very Negroes who get a coUege
education and seek to lead their
people to a more promising land,
who imitate white people in man
ners and speech, are the very
ones we accuse of “putting on
airs,” “forgetting their place,”
or being “agitators.”
A. M. Secrest, Publisher
The Cheraw (S.C.) Chronicle
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WC CL...,
5.. rin Off, cerA
For its first meeting of 1963-
64, the International Relations
Club elected its officers for the
term: Maurice Bowen, president;
Francis Wood, vice president;
Bob Armour, secretary; Larry
Bowers, treasurer; and Martha
Alice Quate, recorder. Miss
Carol Robertson, sponsor, spoke
on the history and the future of
the club.
On October 9, the IRC heard
Dr. Choung Chee speak on “The
Break Between Russia and Red
China,” A discussion period fol
lowed Dr. Chee’s talk. •
The next meeting, scheduled for
November 13, will feature Pro
fessor David McLean who wlU
speak on the “Witchcraft In Afri
ca,” All interested persons are
invited to attend.
On the future agenda, the IRC
is planning a dinner party, and
In the spring, a trip to Charles
ton, S. C,
By Prof, Jemison Hoskins
More students should becoim
aware of the downtown foreigi
film series. The Center Theater
for the fourth film in its
1964 group, will show an epocli
making French movie, thefamo
“Hiroshima, Mon Amour.” Th'
film Will mark a change in 1
from the lighter Russian, Ejg
Ugh, and Spanish ones shown s
far this fall, to a more serious
profound work of art. Intended fo’
adults only.
Students should be re minded thai
the foreign film series can con
tinue only with the warrant
sufficient attendance, and t
the faculty helping select the
films consider them worth tti
students’ while. In practical]
every case, it will help the movie
goer understand these films
seeing them from the beginnins
and schedules of showings can
found on the posters display
around the campus.
Since “Hiroshima, Mon Amour'
is especially significant In
history of current filmmaking
since it is not always an “easy'
movie, all the reviews In the li
brary will be available at the m'
desk beginning Monday, Novem
ber 11.
Directed by the young Frencl
man, Alan Resnais, the moviei
according to New Yorker maga
zine, “the most wrltten-abou
talked-about, European fi
since the war.” That perlodl
goes on to describe it as
passionate, troubling, chel
d’oeuvre. It is the most movr
emotional film in years. A1
Resnais, a thirty-seven year 0
Frenchman, emerges as one
the best movie-makers ofo
time... The pictorial aspects
this film are so ingenious
the dialogue often seems almo
superfluous, and If some of
Ideas advanced are at times
little hard to follow, it must
remembered that the underlyi
theme of “Hiroshima, M
Amour” is one that has caus"
a lot of dizziness at the summit,
And from Saturday Revie
“...in his first feature film (Re
nals) has made what Is undoubt'
ly a masterpiece... Nomorege
ulnely moving motion pictureh'
emerged in years; none has ev
been made in quite this way b
fore. It is a work of enormo
dignity; a landmark in moti
pictures.”
Time Magazine calls it “
the acknowledged masterpiece
the New Wave of Gallic movi
makers,” and continues:
picture won a special prize at
Cannes Film Festival and
been acclaimed in France
‘a thousand films in one’:
atomic horror movie, a pad'
tract, a Proustlan exercise
recollection, a radloacti
ROMEO AND JULIET. As a ni
ter of fact. It Is all of these thi-
and more — an intense, orlgi®
and ambitious piece of cine“
The theme of the film Is: Hi
shlma, like God, Is love. It
the Calvary of the Atomic
It died for man’s sins...” “
most everything (Resnais) do
seems brilliantly right. Hit
shlma and France, past and p'
sent, music and image and la
guage weave together in a sea
less mood that is hard toanalj
and even harder to resist.”
While the plot of “Hiroshi
Mon Amour” has been impo
sible for reviewers to outline,
should be pointed out for pros
pectlve moviegoers that the fit
Is not concerned directly with
bombing of Hiroshima but (
with a love affair between
French woman and a Japane
architect In the late 1950’s,
fact that the affair takes pla
in that city with its ever-pr
sent memory of the ghastly eve
is crucial to the theme.