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march 21. 1969 THE COMPASS PAGE 3 ? Editor s Note; This prose writing is an experience in writing. It has no title, for it is to be continued in future issues. The author, Mr. Juron Brothers, hopes to give it a title when he has completed it. Babies born fat and round, in a world of sin and sorrow. And I was born looking for tomorrow. City lights, night lights and lights that make the silent sounds; popping, zinging, pinging sounds., sounds of cars, red, blue and green putter through the conjested avenues and speedways. Slinging and vomiting that venom called carbon monoxide and it slowly shortens the life span of all that dare to breathe. Even late at night the city still retains a misty glow, with little people under towering steel.,.in habitants they call them, moving on and on in per petual motion until fate plucks them from the gal lery. When the rain falls the scents of the city come out. The orders of gas that explode in the cham ber walls of cars, trucks, motorcycles and scoot ers, maybe even a lawn mower, fill the air. The smell of oil and rubber and burning rags and and liquor from the bar room doors that swing open and lets out the scent come of burben and Gin, Even the sound of beer dripping from the taps is heard, the sound of foam and suds...the clicking of glasses. The city has an infinite number of sounds and odors that seem to sprinkled in the nights of the city. There is also the stink of the ghetto and the musky building that sweat and drip of night, the morning after the ra- dient sun dries its dingy walls. The steaming orders seem to rise bouyantly from the cor ners of wine left in broken glittering bottles, of burnt paper of stale buts and wet pot...and oh yes the scent of shit and piss that seem to fog the air around it. All these things, the sounds, the odors, the streets, the alleys, the dumps, the whores and prostitutes all are a part of me because I’ve come this way before. And I still see the same things that I saw then and 1 hope that through some mir acle there can be a met amorphosis of the junkie. The poor sick junkie merely a lump of coal among millions of tons. In reality he’s not even a lump, a speck of dust that should it disappear, no one will ever notice, 1 dissappeared into that world and one one, not one soul gave a damn. It was the spring of the year when you could to out just about smell the air almost fresh. Patches of grass were trying to break through the pave ment, the dew of the morning was weighing heavily on its blades. The lengthy shadows caused by a blazing mass of gas made the morning seem almost peaceful. The horns of the taxis and the noise of screeching brakes seem to vibrate as 1 closed the door to my somewhat shabby apart ment and off to face the world I thought to myself.. At the newsstand, I got the news and started to read until I heard the roar of the city transit line. Looking through the white, foggish windows of the bus, I could see the people walking hurridly to and fro trying to get on the job to do abso lutely nothing. 1 didn’t have that problem, I didn’t have to meet no body...not one damn soul.. 1 wished I would. Many times when 1 didn’t sell nothing and no rent money and no food money... 1 wished like hell I’d met somebody. Roy was a black artist in a non-caring world impregnated with rubbish of its wrath and violence. However, everyday he kept in time with reality, using delicate strokes of his brushes and oils... hoping always that some one might share with him the same frustration he saw and would do something to ease the pain. SUMMER SCHOOL PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. Ernest A. Finney, Director First Session (Six or seven semester hours credit) Six weeks—June 16 - July 25 Second Session (Three or four semester hours credit) Three weeks—July 28 - August 15 REGULAR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES COOPERATIVE PROGRAM WITH EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOR GRADUATE COURSES INSTITUTES IN SEVERAL AREAS WORKSHOPS IN MANY FIELDS *********************************** planned FOR: REGULAR STUDENTS (ADVANCEMENT OR ACCELERATED AND REMEDIATION) BEGINNING FRESHMEN (REGULAR) “OPPORTUNITY FRESHMEN” (IN NEED OF REFRESHER COURSES) IN-SERVICE TEACHERS ADMINISTRATORS AND COUNSELORS For application blank, brochure or further information, contact: OFFICE OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL ELIZABETH CITY STATE COLLEGE ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA 27909 Alumni Day To Be Observed ALUMNI DAY TO BE OBSERVED by Local Chapter of Elizabeth City State College Alumni Association March 16, 1969 Members and Friends Help Make This a Grand Occasion Members $5,00 Patrons $1.00 “In Unity There is Strength” ADMINISTRATIVE BOG EN. COURAGES DEMONSTRATION (ACP) “Minnesota Daily”, University of Minnesota. The frequent occurrence of violent and nonviolent disruptive ac tion on college campuses has stimulated a dis appointingly limited pub lic discussion, believes Dr. James Beck, assist ant professor of physio logy at the University. Discussion has been limited in two ways; it has been narrowly fo cused on some sup posed peculiarities of the university and it has come largely from a rather uni form group with a uniform viewpoint — i.e. the lib eral in academic and journalistic form. Beck believes failure to communicate between the administration and the ‘ liberal” is due simply to the fact that the groups talk of different things. When one group’s dis course concerns life and death and the quality of life and the other’s con- concerns rules of proce dure for setting dormi tory hours and whether one is permitted an ob scenity, which group is obliged to change its uni verse, of discourse? “Universities within the United States are gen erally not the sources of honest criticism and broader vision by which the society might be served,” Beckobserved. “In fact, universities are largely sources of the means of oppression and camps for the further de humanization of people who are expected to fill predestined niches in society.” Change is “imperative and urgent,” Beck said, although he doesn’t be lieve it is justification for some of the tactics used. Both groups are obliged to consider the issue as it arises. Beck believes. “We cannot hide behind procedural rules.” His inciinacion iS Strongly 10 nonviolent resistance and reconstruction. WhatKindofProtest is Best? (ACP) — “The Henderson Oracle,” Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, Ark. Protest through responsibility is the best way to express opinions. This can be done at the conference table or by “a peaceful protest of some sort,” suggested an editorial in the “Henderson Oracle”. Admittedly this is difficult to accomplish because neither students nor administrators realize the need for it. However, it is much better than violence or “that other kind of protest often faced by small colleges — Apathy.” Apathy is the kind of protest most people prefer, however, it is the most dangerous because it breeds acceptance of anything and anything postpones change. Communication With Administrators Difficult (Editor’s note: A com mon theme—lack of com munication between stud ent groups and adminis tration—runs through items selected at random from college papers around the nation.) (ACP) — Oracle, Uni versity of Southern Flor ida, Tampa. Oracle edi tor Mario Garcia found most of the 1,200 college newspaper editors at tending the recent Asso ciation Collegiate Press conference in New York share the problem of lack of communication with administrators. Editors report ad ministrators seem to be afraid to communicate with student newspaper staffs. The fear results, edi tors feel, from the fact that editors no longer are afraid to say what they believe. As a result, more and more editors are bringing up certain truths which annoy many administrators.
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