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Country-folk performer Mickey Clark is appearing at Farrago
this week, and will have shows tonight thru Saturday at 8 p.m.
THE LANCE
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1973
UNC Dean Visits To Talk
On Wheelie Barriers
Miss Peggy Stephens, as
sistant to the Dean of Stu
dents of the University of
North Carolina, was on cam
pus this past week to discuss
with Dr. Robert Urle and
several wheelchair students
the progress Carolina is
making in turning such a
sprawling, huge campus into
a more acessable university
for handicapped students.
Presently out of a student
population of approximately
20,000 students there are only
several handicapped students,
and the problems they ex
perience getting from class to
class, of having to negoiate
steps, of finding a dorm with
elevators Is, at the moment,
extreme. Yet progress is be
ginning — not so much as in
concrete changes as in a grow
ing awareness of handicapped
students needs and aspira
tions.
The main problem, accord
ing to Miss Stephens, is that at
a university as large as Caro
lina there is little centrali
zation of authority and even
very minor changes such as
putting a ramp on a building
takes a long time because no
one is In a position or has
the inclination to give the
final approval. The hope is
that an office rather like that
' of Dr. Urie’s will be inlated,
so that all of the handlcs4)ped
student's needs will be ex
pertly and effeclently taken
care of. The irony of the sit
uation is that, given a re
latively small amount of
money and few people
aqualnted with the needs of
handicapped students to guide
the alterations, Carolina could
be changed into an almost
barrier free university.
Students Publish Poetry
Four students of Ronald
Bayes’ Advanced Creative
Writing Class of last summer
have had a small chapbook
of their poetry published. The
chapbook of poetry is an at
tempt to give the students —
Bill Bender, Lynn Cansler,
Erie Gregory and Tim Tour-
tellotte -- an audience and
recognition for their work.
The idea for putting the book
together came from Bayes —
but he felt that the actual,
concrete work of putting the
chaplwok together should be
done by the young poets them
selves. The small book was
edited by Tim Tourtellotte;
Lynn Cansler did the artwork
for the front page, and Bill
Bender was in charge of having
the book printed on a press
in his home town.
The book, “The Glacier Re
view,” will be put on sale in
the college bookstore, and
hopefully in the poet’s home
towns. Any profits will be used
to cover the expense of the
printing, which was paid for by
the student poets and by Bayes,
who has two poems in the
chapbook.
The art program needs
students willing to model for
drawing and painting classes
during the week. It abides by
all fair hiring laws and refuses
to discriminate between any
set of contrasts you can
ihiagine. Hours may be during
the day or evening and are
somewhat flexible yet only
dependable persons are
requested. The pay is good
|for student wages). If in-
srested, please contact Prof.
Mark Smith somewhere, or at
Ext. 313.
Dulcimer Making Film To Be
Shown Next Tuesday Here
"The Most Important Thing
about a Dadburned Dulcimer
Is..
That is the title of a film
about the making of a musical
instrument often associated
with mountain life in North
Carolina and Appalachia that
will be shown Tuesday night,
February 27, at St. Andrews
College. The public is in
vited to the showing of the film
at 7:30 in Avinger Auditorium.
Admission is free.
The film, made by St. An
drews students Tim Rand and
Allen Papp, concerns the lives
and philosophies of four
craftsmen of the Southern
Appalachians. Rand and Papp
made the film as students in
a winter term course, “In
dependent Studies in Ethno
graphy,” or study of regional
cultures. Teaching the course
was Dr. Charles Joyner who
uses his own interest and
talents in folk music and in
struments to supplement his
history courses.
The film explores the re
lationship between craftsman
ship and the heritage of dul-
cimer-making in filmed inter
views with four men, accord
ing to Joyner. “In addition to
an interesting study,” ex
plains Joyner, “I think
viewers will find the film
plctorially pleasing, for Rand
and Papp were in the moun
tains during periods of snow
and have filmed some beauti
ful scenes of the area in a
winter setting.”
Stanley Hicks of Sugar
Grove reveals the sentiments
of a true folk artist, saying,
“1 make dulcimers strictly for
a hobby and I don’t want to sell
you something you can’t get no
good of.”
Also featured is nationally-
recognized Edd Presnell of
Banner Elk who has made
dulcimers for 38 years from
patterns handed down by his
father-in-law. Another
craftsman in the film Is J. D.
Sams of Asheville. After 27
years of factory work, he gave
up that job tor a more satis
fying life of making dulcimers.
The fourth subject is B. A,
Robison. Retiring after 38
years in an Enka plant, he
took up dulcimer making,
learning the skill by helping
Sams: “You got to have some
thing to do when you don’t
have anything else to do.”
These four men look back
over their life in the moun
tains during the time they
were growing up, the times
without jobs, andthe big moun
tain get-togethers, as well as
telling about the history and
methods of making dulcimers.
There will be a meeting of
students interested in at
tending law school after
graduation, next Tuesday
night, February 27th at 7:15 in
the College Union Lounge. The
guest speaker will be Lee Pat
terson, President of the
Student Bar Association at
UNC-Chapel Hill Law School.
He will answer any questions
about admissions, etc., so all
interested persons are urge
to be there.
China As Consumer Society
sectlclde have been lowered
during the past two years
by margins of 20 to 30 per
cent. Prices for peanuts, su
garcane and oil crops, on the
other hand, were raised by 15
to 17 per cent in 1971.
The political goal is to pre
vent the widening of the eco
nomic gap between country
side and city by raising the
purchasing power of the pea
sants and minimize the poten
tial of rural discontent, thus
contributing, in Sung’s words,
to the “worker-peasant
alliance.”
In the cities, workers are
encouraged to comment on the
quality and availability of
goods--and the service of
salesmen. Books are provided
in department stores in which
comments may be written. In
an effort to keep the system
responsive to the consumers’
desires, factories send re
presentatives to stores to
work as shop assistants to sell
new products and test consum-
der reactions. Commerce
bureau personnel at all levels
periodically visit the country
side, factories and shops to
listen to comments from con
sumers.
In one Peking neighborhood,
I discovered a committee that
acted as a consumer watch
dog over the services and
goods provided by stores in
the locality.
The lack of advertising is a
distinctive aspect of China.
Occasionally, advertising is
used to introduce new pro
ducts. "The purpose,” said
Sung, “is better service, not
competition.” A billboard ad
vertising Pakistan Interna
tional Airlines near the hotel
for foreign guests in Canton
was the only Western-style
advertisement I saw in China.
Like most aspects of China,
the Commerce Ministry has
undergone some changes since
the Cultural Revolution,
though these changes do not
seem as thoroughgoing as
those, say, in the schools. The
spirit of “serve the people”
is demonstrated in 24-hour
stores and a new policy of
home delivery for certain
commodities should the need
arise. For example, when a
shop assistant in a hat store
in Shenyang could not find
my size in a Manchurian-
style ear-flapped fur hat, she
assured me that a hat of ap
propriate size would be sent
to my hotel the next day. Later
inquiry revealed that this ser
vice was not just for foreig
ners.
Wage policies were also
changed during the Cultural
Revolution. Bonuses used to
be given to salespeople who
fulfilled sales quotas. During
the Cultural Revolution, this
was criticized as imreason-
able. ‘ ‘Sales do not depend on
the salesman,” said a mini
stry official, “but on the at
titudes and needs of the con
sumers, so we abolished the
practice. Nowadays, the
money originally paid in
bonuses is distributed among
all the sales personnel.”
The Chinese system of com
merce is, of course, not aper-
fectly functioning one. Na
tional planning is an intricate
process and commerce offi
cials admit that bottlenecks
and shortages occur and that
plans sometimes deviate from
reality. But they remain con
vinced that they are providing
the basic necessities of life
for China’s 800 million people,
and that the general standard
of living is climbing for all
sectors of the population.
The officials were cautious.
But some of China’s ordinary
citizens have more glowing
hopes for the future. As one
resident of Peking told me,
“Some day we’ll have a car in
every family in China,”
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