Pa{^e 2—Smoke Signals, Wednesday, December 2, 1970
EDITORIALS
We Need YOUR Help
I have recently been informed by our SGA president that
some students would like to contribute to the "Smoke Signals”
but they do not know where to turn their stories in. Ronnie has
taken it as part of his responsibility to turn other students’
stories in to me. This is extra work on his part and it is un
necessary.
Any stories, comments, or suggestions for ‘‘Smoke Signals”
should be directed to the Editor, Julie Hoskins or to Mr.
Gatewood, Advisor. There is hardly a time of day when neither
one of us are in the graphic arts building. All you have to do is
ask Mrs. Marks, the secretary, if we are in. If not, she will take
your story and see that I get it.
If the Graphic Arts building is too much out of the way, you
can always mail it to me in Box 340. I live on campus and
stories can be given to me in my dorm, Belk 311.
It is very inconsiderate of students to impose upon someone
else to do something they are quite capable of doing them
selves.
‘‘Smoke Signals” accepts all stories written by students or
faculty. Also stories of interest from other papers may be
turned in by students or faculty.
West's Backing for No. 1 Float
Dear Mr. Patten:
The purpose of this letter is to comment on the criticism you
have given to us in the last issue of “Smoke Signals.” Of course
we all agree and know that it is just your opinion and nothing
else. We realize that you feel the judges were unjust but only
because you lost. If you have come this far in life and do not
know how to accept defeat then you have missed one of life’s
most important lessons.
West and Jenkins float won simply because it was the best of
all the floats. The theme being Aquarius and West exhibited
this through the picture of the Water Bearer, which is the
mythological sign for Aquarius, along with all twelve zodiac
signs. East had a good idea in following the theme. The sled
you built would go great in anybody’s Christmas Parade. Had
you had eight reindeer and a Santa Claus, you would have won
easily. There was a grezt deal of time and money spent on our
float. The time spent on the float amounted to about three
weeks. Finding the float then gathering all our material before
we engaged in the building process. The fifteen dollars the
SGA provided us was spent along with a large amount that was
collected in the dorm.
The part about originality was probably where we did our
best. The idea of the Greek slaves pulling it was a great part of
our float. The judges were very liberal in going with the new
idea of pulling it with MEN, instead of the old conservative
way of using a tractor. Our float was unable to be pulled by a
tractor because of the two-wheel axle, so we used our
originality and came up with the best way, the WEST way.
How do you account for the fact that our float accumulated a
total of 495 points out of a possible 500?—One of the highest
point totals ever received at Chowan College.
The girls you had on your float were of course better looking
than our Water Bearer, but our Water Bearer went along with
thd-theme-befcteiKttefn (Jhe girls'^iding CB'Cinder^lla's ball on
Santa’s sled. Blue and White are Chowan’s colors and we
commend you on your school spirit but Santa would have had a
hard time finding it in a snow drift. It is verv obvious that the
bright colors displayed on our float attracted the judges’ eye
as being far superior to any other color scheme used in the
other floats.
The girls over at Jenkins worked diligently for a long time
stuffing the chicken wire with the bright colors. Along with
them a girl from Jenkins and a boy from West worked all night
painting the twelve zodiac signs on the back.
In conclusion, we would just like to say that next year if it
takes a good idea and a combination of originality and hard
work, we will come up with a winner. Best of luck in the future
with your floats. And if you win. West will be the first to
congratulate you, but until you do, the winner will stand as is.
From THE BEST OF WEST
Brinkley Wagstaff
Eddie Steinbeck
Bill Powell
Richard Thornton
Roy Montague
Eddie Stallings
Tommy Potter
Butch Olphin
Wingate Burton
Letter to the Editor
Editor:
The letter written by Sidney Young, which appeared in the
November eleventh issue of Smoke Signals, contained many
alarming and unsubstaintiated statements. I would like to
make available to the students of Chowan College my opinion
to this letter as I believe it will state facts which are pertinent
to the ussue.
First of all, I would like to know w'here Mr. Young obtained
his information about the parties involved. I was present at
one Faculty Judiciary trial and at no time during the trial was
Mr. Young present. To my understanding the minutes of these
trials are not made available to students. Therefore, how can
Mr. Young truthfully say that the ‘‘parties involved were truly
guilty, excluding none,” when in fact he has no knowledge of
the evidence presented in this one or other cases.
Mr. Young’s letter also states that Mr. Graham did not over
react and achieved perfect results in this case. As a matter of
fact it has been proven that Mr. Graham did over-react. One
boy, who signed one of the first affidavits, has just recently
subffiitted a second notarized affidavit to the college. This
second affidavit states that the previous affidavit was signed
while under duress and because of this its contents are fic
titious. This second affidavit was signed after consultation
with an attorney, not after the coercion of Mr. Graham which
was the case of the previous affidavit.
The “rally” held November fifth was not a “so-called peace
rally,” but in fact was a peaceful assembly. It was attended
by people who were concerned about the unorthodox dismissal
of their fellow students. It was not attended only by people,
who in Mr. Young's words, “have a skeleton in their closets.”
If this was the case, I suppose Mr. Young believes that
Chaplain Taylor is also guilty, for he attended the said “rally.”
Mr. Young states that “one might hear a lot of hear-say but
it takes facts.” I believe Mr. Young should use facts in his
letter and not the hear-say he rebukes.
Olen Thomas
QUESTION: If you are a girl, what don’t you
like about Chowan boys; if you are a boy, what
don’t you like about Chowan girls?
WHERE ASKED: In front of Marks Hall and
in front of Thomas Cafeteria
WHO WERE ASKED:
T
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TERESA DALTON, Fresh.,
Chathem, Va.—Well, some of
them are friendly. One thing I
detest most in them is that when
a girl walks on campus passing a
group of boys, they start talking
about that girl. She won’t know
what they are saying and that
makes her feel uneasy. But I
guess that is to be expected
anywhere. They don’t talk like
girls but they talk a lot too! Hah!
Hah!
KENNETH DEWS Soph., Win-
terville, N.C.—The girls here in
general are charming and
friendly although so much has got
to be desired. I don’t particularly
appreciate the way some girls
have treated some boys. I think
there is a lot of room for im
provement between these two
people and I hope it is not too late
to do it.
ANN HANDEL, Soph. Newark,
Del.—I don’t dislike anything
about them except their abihty to
lie stubborn some of the times.
JUDY QUAKENBUSH Fresh.,
Graham, N.C.—They take girls
for granted. They show their
immaturity quite frequently.
They are irresponsible in the
sense that they leave their trays
on the table very often.
DANNY HARREL Soph., Port
smouth, Va.—Let’s see now,
there are many things that I don’t
like about them and I am afraid
that not all my dislikes can be
contained in this paper. However,
it is very obvious that at times
they are childish! They are
friendly but not too friendly.
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Through the Pines
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DEBBIE McABOY Fresh.,
Winchester, Va.—Gosh! They are
not very polite. So many of them
act like juveniles. But some of
them are alright.
Wish I’d Said
That
We've never liked the i)lea
‘vote for and .sup|iort.’ If the
candidate pet.s enough vote.s
he ought to be able to .su])|)ort
himself. — John H. (!ilf;our.
The Tri-County (Mo.) New.s.
Real .success in life is not
measured by how many indi
viduals you excel but by how
many i>oo]>le you befriend.-
Donald M. Weaver, Winne
bago (Minn.) Enterjirise.
My Neighbors
“■YouM tliiiik li’ ini'eutpti
By ESTHER A. WHITAKER
There are advantages to living
on a college campus. Sometimes
it is exciting to “be where the
action is”, to peep through the
tall pines and see some action
that never seems to get reported
to the newspapers, but is
newsworthy!
Take today, for example. It is
the Saturday before the
Thanksgiving holidays — a
beautiful, sunny, warm, lazy fall
day. We have all read a great
deal.. .too much.. .about today’s
student generation, the way they
are “turning on” with drugs and
“turning off” society. But today I
saw something different through
the pines.
What kind of “turned on”
students crawl out of bed early on
a Saturday morning to be “on the
scene” for a children’s theater
rehearsal in McDowell Columns?
Students with various talents are
required for a production —
working with lights, making
scenery, learning lines for star
roles, playing bit parts, gathering
props and dozens of other things
necessary to go on a trip touring
the public schools and producing
a children’s play to entertain
hundreds of children just before
Christmas.
What kind of “turned on”
students show up in fatigues or
faded jeans at 12:30 on Saturday
to participate with the Chowan’s
Science Service Organization
sponsoring a “Clean Up Day”
activity? By cleaning the streets
in Murfreesboro, their hope is
that their efforts will arouse
others to join the fight against
pollution. One who participated
said, “We walked a lot and picked
up a lot of stuff. . .it was dif
ferent.”
Then there were the long
haired guys who dedicated their
Saturday to take their stand
outside the local grocery stores to
spiel oTf to lt)cal citizens entering
the stores, “We are from the
Circle K Club. We ask you to buy
an extra can of food and donate it
to a Thanksgiving basket for a
needy family”. Who could
possibly resist such a plea from a
sincere student — even if his hair
is too long?
Another group stayed in the
dorm to study, knowing full well
that their time was limited,
because part of each week is
spent at the Riverview School
“doing their thing” to improve
adjustments in the elementary
school, operating for the first
year as a fully integrated school.
Students have cooperated with
the B.S.U., which sponsors
volunteers to tutor slow learners
or lend enthusiasm and energy on
the playground in leading
recreational activities.
Today my belief in this student
generation was strengthened, for
I saw through the pines in
volvement in humanity.
People In
The News
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) —
A bus filled with holiday passen
gers struck a railing and
plunged off a road into a river
in South Sumatra, killing 30 per
sons and seriously injuring 10,
the official Antara News Agency
reported today.
Most of the passengers were
on their way to visit their fami
lies for the end of the Moslem
New Year, the report said.
LONDON (AP) - Equity, the
British actors’ union, is appoint
ing an orgy inspector to keep
watch on mass sex scenes in
movies. His job will be to insure
that the male actors tick to the
script.
Five actresses complained
that during the shooting of a
scene for “The Devils,” they
were sexually assaulted in a
crowd of 50 naked male extras,
all amateurs. The movie, about
sex-mad nuns in the 17th cen
tury, stars Vanessa Redgrave
and Oliver Reed, who were not
involved.
Literary
Musings
By PROF. ROBERT (i. MULDER
STEVE COOPER, Soph.,
Raleigh, N.C. —Lately, there has
been quite a number of boys
being stood up by their supposed
dates. That attitude on the part of
the girls is unbecoming of a
CJiowan coed. They should not be
very common in dealing with the
boys because the boys are
treating them as ladies. Most of
them are pretty nice though and
we have a better crop this year.
m
By PROF ROBERT MULDER
A New Cause of
Juvenile Delinquency
The latest studies from the field
of education indicate that one of
the possible causes of juvenile
delinquency is traced to the
classroom teacher. What next?
It seems that a recent study in
Virginia reveals that Johnny
can’t read; so, for something to
do, he gets himself into trouble
with the law. Of course, he does
this when his friends are at home
reading, a thing he can’t do since
his teachers have used the wrong
approach.
The study was reported in a
recent article by Margaret Scott,
a Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer.
She traced the yearly conunents
on one juvenile’s accumulative
folder through the seventh grade
and, interesting enough, Johnny
was found unable to read each
year, yet he was passed on to
make room for other students.
Typical comments were as
follows: “Has not learned to
read. . .is being placed,” or “Is
not able to read. . .in and out of
trouble all year. . .expelled in
May.”
Someone has even convinced
Johnny that his delinquency
stems from inability to read.
According to the article, he told
his probation officer: “My
problem is that I can’t read,”
It’s contorting to know that
something is being done about the
crisis, at least in Virginia.
Thanks to surveys, educational
psychology, and a few con
ventions, teachers are learning to
teach reading.
Give or take a few years, we
won’t have to concern ourselves
with crime. Everyone will learn
to read voraciously and the local
pubs will bow out to the city
library.
But let’s hope that before this
happens on our campus someone
will fix that infernal humming
sound in the lighting system of
our library.
Thanks to Professor Brannon’s
alertness, some of our students
recently viewed Shakespeare’s
“Hamlet” via color television in
Marks Hall auditorium. Com
ments were favorable but
probably not as energetic as the
following film will produce:
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is in
for another movie remake. The
latest London version will be
clearly identifiable with 1970 film
fads. The three witches will stir
their boiling cauldrons in the
nude, and Lady Macbeth will do
the sleepwalking scene in much
the same state. Producing the
stripped-down version is Kenneth
Tynan, British drama critic and
author, best known in this
country for his nude review “Oh!
THE
CAMPUS
WINDOW
R. Kinnamon
An Instructor’s Holiday
My students (especially those
who usually have English 201 at
12:30 on Thursday but who
agreed to come to the 8:00 class)
probably assumed that my main
reason for attending the South
Atlantic Modern Language
Association Convention in
Washington, D.C. November 5-7,
was to have a holiday from my
teaching duties. I must admit
that I felt not only exhilerated,
but also liberated as I headed
north on 95 that Thursaay
morning, luxuriating in the still
glorious autumn-colored vistas
along the highway. Not until I
reached the outskirts of the city
did my nerves begin to tighten in
preparation for the conquest of
the intricacies of Washington’s
system of streets. One wrong
choice and I found myself
heading southeast instead of
northwest which had been my
course. Thus my weekend began
with an unscheduled tour of the
dty.
With the help of a city map I
finally located the convention
headquarters, the Washington
Hilton, and joined the others
already registering. Part of the
excitement of attending such
gatherings is seeing again
acquaintances from other con
ventions and other colleges.
Among those I saw here were my
own former English instructors
from Maryville, Tennessee,
many of the professors, poets and
novelists from the Hollins College
Creative Writing and Cinema
Conference I attended last
summer-as well as other English
and foreign language instructors
from many North Carolina
colleges and universities.
The Conference program of
fered numerous meetings of
special interest groups in
English, American and Com
parative Literatures, as well as
in the Modern Foreign
Languages. At the first general
session. Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney,
Past Chairman of the National
Endowment for the Humanities
spoke on the need for em
phasizing humanistic studies,
and the need for revitalizing the
teaching of foreign languages so
that the literature, not the
grammer of the language is the
major concern.
Following this address, John
Cassavetes’ movie “Faces” was
shown in preview of the SAMLA
Forum, the topic of which was
“Man in the Movies.” A far
departure from his earlier
commercial film, “Rosemary’s
Baby,” this movie is the result of
Mr. Cassavetes’ exploring the
possibilities of unscripted, or
partially scripted, films, in which
the actors participate in the
creation of the story line and the
character portrayal through
their own interpretation of the
roles they assume in the movie.
Cassavetes is also currently
using the hand-held camera
which sometimes produces a
home-movie effect, thus making
his films more spontaneous than
rehearsed. Focus is on character
rather than on plot. Scenes are
not always planned, but much
footage is shot and then edited.
The convention heard Mr.
Cassavetes, his producer, AI
Ruban, and one of his actors,
Peter Falk discuss his films with
a former “Newsweek” movie
critic, Joe Morgenstern and a
former magazine editor, B.J.
Stiles. The importance of movies
in involving viewers in life ex
periences was the subject of their
discussion, with an emphasis on
the director’s intent and
technique and the viewer’s
reactions to the results.
On Friday, I had the op
portunity to attend a Renaissance
Discussion Group at the Folger
Sheakespeare Library, After a
long trek across town, past the
White House, the Washington
Monument, a peek into the
Smithsonian, a lingering look at
the National Gallery’s exhibit of
the paintings of the American
impressionist, Mary Cassatt,
and a hurried passage through
the Mellon Collection of French
paintings (including some of my
favorites by Monet), a walk
through the Capitol, a glance at
the fascinating turn-of-the-
century poster exhibit at the
Library of Congress, we arrived
at the Folger just in time to hear
a paper by Dr. Stanley J. Kahrl of
Ohio State University on the
influences of the medieval in
terpretation of history,
represented by the figural and
exemplary conventions, on the
early English Renaissance
drama. The Library itself is a
fascinating museum, featuring
exhibits relative to Shakespeare
bibliography and production. The
theater, center of all the drama
producations, lectures, and
poetry readings sponsored by the
Library, is a facsimile of The
Globe.
Saturday morning, before
standing in the check-out line, a
featiu-e of every convention, I
caught part of the session on
Freshman English during which
I was encouraged to teach my
students to write by having them
write poetry, to let my students ,
teach each other-peer group
instruction, it is called- and to
develop their linguistic abilities.
And then it was over, and I had
Calcutta!,” and Playboy
magazine’s Hugh Hefner.
Do Your Thing—
If You Can
Tiny Tim was only doing his
own thing, singing in hi^^
inimitable squeaky voice^^
Americans have grown used to
the falsetto, but it proved too
much for a British soldier taking
in his first Tiny Tim appearance
at a London club. The long-haired
singer was half way through
“Land of Hope and Glory”, a
patriotic English song, when the
soldier leaped onto the stage and
grabbed the microphone from the
singer. “As far as I was con
cerned this man was running
down England.” Said Tiny Tim:
“I do these English songs
because I love them. I would
never make mock of such songs
as these.” But the damage was
done. The entertainer cut his
London stay short.
Lady Bird A Writer?
At least that’s what one
publishing company thinks. Her
one and only literary effort is
described below.
“Lady Bird Johnson, beautifier
nonpareil, planted trees beyond
number in her five years as First
Lady. Whenever she put down
her shovel, she picked up her
microphone and talked, talked,
talked into ther tape recorder.
From it has come “A White
House Diary,” a book so focused
on history’s leaves that it reveals
only indistinctly the forest in
which they grew.”
“The book’s 806 pages (there
are also 40 pages of photographs)
distill about 250,000 of the
1,750,000 words that Mrs. Johnson
dictated during her husband’s 62-
month Presidency. Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, Inc., will
officially pubUsh the book this
month at a price of $10.95, when
the New York Times syndicate
will begin serializing it! It is
already on sale in some places,
however, and excerpts from the
first half of it appear in the
current “McCall’s” magazine.”
The News
In Brief
BALTIMORE (AP) — A
Johns Hopkins University medi
cal researcher says the inci
dence of fatal heart disease
among infrequent churchgoers
is twice as high as tor men who
attend chnb7h at least once a
week.
The findings by Dr. George
W. Comstock, professor of epi
demiology at the school of hy
giene and public health, were
reported in the current issue of
the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Comstock said he based his
findings on a study of the rec
ords of more than 500 men aged
45 to 64 in Washington County,
Md., between 1963 and 1966.
Hardening of the arteries and
other cardiac disease was listed
in 189 deaths.
NEW YORK (AP) - “Hello,
Dolly!”, the longest running
musical in Broadway history,
will bid goodbye Dec. 27 after
its 2,844th performance.
The show opened Jan. 16, 1964
with Carol Charming in the role
of Dolly Gallagher Levi.
Since then six other stars
have pt ko the title role: Gin
ger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty
Grable, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis
Diller and Ethel Merman, who
is currently in the show.
“Dolly” surpassed “My Fair
Lady” as the longest running
musical last September. Only
“Life With Father,” 3,224 and
“Tobacco Road”, 3,182, among
nonmusicals have run longer.
to head south in the Saturday
traffic. This time I took all the
right turns, arriving tired, but
contented to type out “What I
Learned at the SAMLA Con
ventions.” What did I learn? That
there is much to be gained by
going to a professional meeting;
that much of it is intangible and
difficult to verbalize; that one
profits from contact and
discussion with others in his
profession and field of interest;
that this sort of experience is
much ore than just a holiday
from the classroom.