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EDITORIALS
Responsible men needed
To the Editor:
ELECTION NOTICE
On the 28 of this month the Men’s Council of Chowan College will
have eledtions for 6 seats on the council and later in the spring we will
fill the remaining 6 seats.
Candidates are self-nominated and approved by the election board.
This job is one of responsibility to the college as well as your fellow
students. We are now in the process of looking for well-qualified
students to take over next year. If you didn’t consider running for
office, do your part in putting the most capable men in this position of
responsibility. The polls will be open from 10 to 5 on Thursday the 28th.
Vote, you might need some help sometime.
Sidney Young
President of Men’s Council
SGA-sponsored bookstore
TO: Editor of Smoke Signals
RE: On Used Books
This letter of complaint and suggestion has been written collectively
by the undersigned. A suggestion of improvement has been submitted
to the S.G.A. through their suggestion box in the Student Union.
The conditions surrounding the used college course book sales
seems quite ridiculous. The bool^ store won’t buy them and neither
will most students because they fear the book will not be an issue
currently being used in the clfissroom. Is there a solution to this
dilemma?
We are of the contention th^t the establishment of an S.G.A. spon
sored Used Bookstore is in or/ler. The last and first weeks of any given
semester should be sufficient time to resell any book that is resellable.
An individual wishing to sey a book at half the original price could turn
it over to the U.B. for whicji he would recieve a receipt, payable if sold,
on a pre-determined dati.
This seems a much mijre feasible system than the “hit and miss”
system presently emploj^fed via bulletin boards and word of mouth.
We beg of the S.G.A. and the Student Body to help in a little
organization. Let’s d^'something now rather than let the situation
creep up on us at eiio-semester.
I Becky Cummings
/ Carl Cunningham
/ Gayle Morris
' Donna Jones
Jete Edmundson
Gary Fendrich
Martha Casilear
Elizabeth Richey
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J
.Just Another Peasant
By JOHN SLAY
Born without fortune born without fame,
Used as a pawn to play in their game.
Cannot run cannot hide, has a soul
Which has lon^.since died^.,-
Up to work at the break of^ dawn,
Hours hard and hours long.
Having to do it all by hand.
So he can eat from the land.
Along comes the man who says,
“This is mine, you live from what you can find.”
More work and toil, sweat from brow,
of breaking land and milking cow.
Family needs new clothers, he another rake,
And back again come the men who always take.
Never allowed to refuse,
Because he must pay his dues,
little freedom to do what he pleases.
And spends that digging, wearing out his knees.
Troubled back and burdened mind
Always nag him at the grind.
Pleasant memories are far and few.
But they seem to get him through.
Tries to save some money, but to no avail.
Something always comes along, drought, flood, gale.
Through all his misery and suffering though.
There is one place he can go.
When comes the day he must die.
He won’t complain or out loud cry.
After all he knows it best
E>veryman needs a rest.
When he’s buried in the ground.
He rises up to look around
There he sees another man.
Trying to work his worn out land.
It’s a pity, it’s a shame.
The way they used him for their game.
An oppressed man, he may be.
Better him than you and me.
It’s that game we now face,
and I don’t want to take his place.
I’ve thought it through and through,
But there’s nothing I can do.
Drop that bomb over there,
I don’t want no commies here.
You long-haired hippies are the same.
You’re all mouth, you have no brain.
This is what we should do.
And proudly display the red, white, and blue.
I am a Hawk, yes it’s true,
and there are things we have to do.
Look at the story real.
To survive, you have to kill.
Of all the bombs in our land
Not one can feed a single man.
Of all those things which they destroy.
The most preciuos are little girls and boys.
How can you restore the life
Of a husband or his wife,
Or hear your brother let out a cry,
And slowly watch him bleed and die?
I am for peace, I am proud to say
and there will be some day.
Yes, I call myself a Dove,
And try to spread the word of love.
All three men gave their view
of how they felt or what they’d do.
'Die story is still the same,
The peasant is used, in somebody’s game.
IN CONCERT— Pepi of the rock group group “Alive
‘n’ Kicking” is a crcwd-pleaser. “Alive ‘n’ Kicking” played
in concert on Jan. 19 in columns Auditorium.
TODAY
IN HISTORY
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27,
the 27th day of 1971. There are
338 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1880, Thomas
A. Edison received a patent for
the electric incandescent light.
On this date:
In 1756, the Austrian compos
er Mozart was born in Salzburg.
In 1964, France recognized
Communist China.
In 1967, astronauts Virgil I.
Grissom, Edward H. White and
Roger B. Chaffee died in a fire
in their Apollo spacecraft at
Cape Kennedy.
Also in 1967, a treaty limiting
the use of outer space for mili
tary purposes was signed by 62
nations.
Ten years ago: The new Ken
nedy administration oindicated
that it would not be opposed to a
summit meeting if Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khruschev came to
the United Nations in March.
HAPPINESS IS...
A firm specializing in men’s
evening wear is preparing an
advertising campaign based on
the premise that happiness can
be achieved by going out more
often. “.. .If there’s one thing we
know about,” says the company,
“it’s being happy. We absolutely
positively know that a man who
puts on a tuxedo and takes his
wife to a fancy place is going to
be happy.”
Want to bet? — Charleston
(S.C.) News and Courier
“Alive ‘N’ Kicking was very favorable, yet only about two-thirds of the auditorium was
filled for the performance. SGA can only sponser current rock groups with the support of
the students. “Mason,” “Steam,” and “Bill Deal and the Rondells” are scheduled to per
form at Chowan this semester. Support your SGA by attending these functions.
Man shows computer who is boss
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) —
A computer at the data process
ing center here has finally got
the message—man is its mas
ter, not vice versa.
Throughout a number of
successive payroll runs, the
computer refused to pay Ann
Wilhams, secretary for eight
years to Commonwealth’s Atty.
Peter W. Axson Jr.
In fact, it wouldn’t even ac
knowledge she was an employe.
The programmers changed
tactics and fed Mrs. Williams’
time into the machine as a
“new employe.”
The computer wasn’t to be
fooled.
“Duplicate new hire!” it
snapped. That’s computer talk
for someone already on the pay-
Help
me
I am a prisoner in North Vietnam. Being a prisoner of war is
not a very enjoyable occupation, here or elsewhere. The Geneva
Convention guarantees me certain privileges, receiving and
sending mail is one of them. My captors will not allow me to
receive or send mail. I love my family dearly and would like to
hear from them. I would like to tell them not to worry; that I am
OK.
The North Vietnamese believe that Americans do not care
about us prisoners. Please prove them wrong. Write them a
letter. Since I cannot send mail, this letter is being written by a
friend of mine who cares about victims of war, not only political
gain. I am in your hands.
Thank you,
Joe Prisoner
(It could be “you,” your husband, brother, or father)
He and hundreds like him need your help. Six cents may save
a life. For your convience, pre-written letters are in the Student
Union. These and addressed envelopes have been provided by
our Student Government Association. The letter reads as
follows:
I am very concerned about our prisoners In Vietnam.
Won't you tell us where our men are? Please allow our
prisoners to communicate with their families.
Regardless of how I and other Americans feel about the
war, we are united against inhumane treatment of the
prisoners of war. Please identify them and release them
soon.
The one possibility of getting them released seems to be
through public pressure. “You” are the public! The letters are
sent to: Hanoi,C-0 WBTV, Charlotte, N.C. 28208
Your letter will be delivered to the North Vietnamese. Do it
now! Chao—RGD.
truofNi 0* CmOWOn COtlfCl
Literary
Musings
By PROF. ROBERT G. MULDER
A Posthumous
Himingway Novel
Sometimes a man has to die
before his best works reach the
reading public. While I have
never been a big reader of Ernest
Hemingway, had he lived he may
have produced that GREAT
American novel.
The most familiar novels may
not lead the reader to accept this
fact, and certainly “The Old Man
and the Sea” is no masterpiece
(at least in my opinion).
Hemingway’s tragic death in
1961 silenced a mighty pen, no
doubt, but when I read the latest
novel (“Islands in the Stream.”
By Ernest Hemingway. Scrib
ners; New York City, 466 pages,
$10.), I was caused to regret
again his depressing suicide.
But his death itself has given us
its consolations, for it permitted
the publication of two fine and
valuable works—“A Moveable
Feast,” his very personal
recollections of this early years
as a writer in Paris, and “By-
Line: Ernest Hemingway,” a
collection of his journalism-that
he had evidently had no intention
of publishing in his lifetime.
And now we have another
posthumous work, “Islands in the
Stream,” a novel of such length
and dimension that it might seem
that I and a few other doubters
were wrong about Hemingway’s
ability to land the big one. It is a
big one, no doubt about it.
The book is divided into three
parts, the first of which takes
place on one of the Bimini
islands, the second in Cuba, and
the third at sea in a long and
routinely exciting chase through
the keys and islands of the Gulf
Stream. Yes, there is action in
the novel; these are also a violent
conclusion and the sort of heroics
and philosophizing on the hero’s
code that you might expect to find
in a novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Which in a way is strange, for
fundamentally “Islands in the
Stream” documents a man’s long
downward slide into emotional
oblivion.
South Carolina and Salinger
Because Kershaw County
school board ordered J. D.
Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”
removed from the Camden High
School library, the nine-year-old
book has become the most
popular book in South Carolina,
according to the state’s chief
library consultant for the public
schools. Sheriff Hector Debruhl
had complained to the board that
the book was “tasteless crude
writings, pouring forth from an
obviously dollar-seeking writer.”
Parents of a 16-year-old girl in a
summer-school English class
brought the book to the sheriff’s
attention. The course had in
cluded the book for recom
mended reading.
A New Collection by Oates
There is little disagreement
that Joyce Carol Oates is one of
the best young writers around.
Her novels, short stories, and
poetry have gained her an in
ternational following because of
the intersity of their emotions,
their deftly concise charac
terizations, and their razorlike
prose style that captures a world
of tragic loves and inner terrors.
Earlier this year, at the age of 31,
she was voted the National Book
Award for her most recent novel,
“Them.”
Miss Oates’ newest book is a
collection of 20 short stories
aititled “The Wheel of Love.” It
represents not so much an ex
tension of her skill or view of the
world as a honing, a focusing
down. She is, in effect, rewriting
and polishing the same story
throughout this book; the stories
are so consistent in plot,
character, and tone that they
could be called “Variations on a
Theme.” This lack of surprise
keeps the collection from ^ing
totally satisfying, but the best
stories are excellent—and even
the weakest are beautifully
written.
RELUCTANT LADY
An 18-year-old girl in
Wilmington, Del., a news story
tells us, jumped out a second
story window of her home and
broke her ankle when her
boyfriend tried to kiss her.
It is indeed startling to learn
that any girl in these modern
times would prefer a broken
ankle to being kissed, and that by
her boyfriend, yet. — Dallas
(Tex.) Times Herald
SOME DISH
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) —
There was a giant platter
80 pounds of cooked spaghetti
— no sauce — see.
Two University of North
Carolina at Greensboro stu
dents had prepared it lovingly
as their modern art exhibit at
the Weather spoon Art Gallery
on J a n . 11.
Another student. Miss Pat
O’Shea, startled viewers by
jumping into the spaghetti —
nude.
She was charged with “un
reasonably disturbing or alarm
ing the public by appearing in
the nude.”
Her trial was scheduled in
Gilford County Tuesday, but
was continued to Feb. 9.
By Ronaldo A. Karunugan I \ ^
With'regards* to the Woman’s Liberation f'ront isvsi *!9qQu\ V nBO
U.S. House representative commented that there is \\
a big difference between a horse chestnut and a
chestnut horse.
QUESTION: What is your comment?
WHERE ASKED: Around campus.
WHOM WERE ASKED?
roll.
Where on the payroll?
The computer clammed up.
It wouldn’t tell where Mrs.
Williams is employed. It only in
sisted that she was. It wouldn’t
pay her, and it wouldn’t hire
her. And nobody could persuade
the machine to explain why.
It was time for the program
mers to show who was boss.
They “ordered” the computer
to search its master list of em
ployes, locate Mrs. Williams
and transfer her from wherever
she was to the commonwealth
attorney’s office.
Oh yes, and pay her.
The computer mulled this
over and decided to yield.
On the next run, it meekly ac
knowledged Mrs. Williams and
paid her.
TIT FOR TAT
One way of dealing with the
soliciting letters that come ad
dressed to “Occupant” was used
by the recipient who made out, to
one of the most insistent of the
mailers, a check for $10,000 -
signing it “Occupant.” —
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
JONI PRICE—Freshman
Hampton Va. For one thing, I
thought it was a big problem. But
now I feel they are settling down.
It is a good idea but I would not
carry it to an extreme. I feel that
men of today are liberal enough
to tolerate such movement. Why
should they be Sov symbols? To
my judgment that is not the
woman’s purpose. I think the
Japanese are wrong in their
belief that women are for en
tertainment of men.
TOM MOLIN—Freshman,
Wilmington Del. I can un
derstand their demand for equal
job opportunity and equal pay.
But some of the stuff they are
asking for are downright
ridiculous.
SUSAN RIGGS—Sophomore
Cherry Point N.C. Sure, they
have the legitimate cause to ask
for everything they are
demanding for. They shouldn’t be
drafted not because they are
women but because nobody
should be dratted. The trend that
the “bras” are diminishing in
many business offices and
campuses is a healthy sign of
women’s liberation. “Power to
the chicks.”
Editor Julia Hoskins
Associate Editor .... Ron Dunn
Advisor
Herman Gatewood
JILL RHODES— Freshman
Washington, D.C. I am not
prejudice but I am all for women.
I think they are not too weak to
perform things that an ordinary
man can do. I believe that sex
shouldn’t be a barrier in the
women’s flight for progress. I
believe they can maintain their
femininity even in their pants.
CATHY MULLANEY—
Freshman Norfolk, Va. I believe
that they have the right to a
certain degree in asking for some
equality but other stuff about
complete equality is for the birds.
I do not believe they should
become presidents. To me, a
woman is a sex symbol and they
should remain as sex symbols.
They should be allowed to wear
hot pants on campus.
BILLY HILL—Sophomore
Murfreesboro, N.C. The idea
behind the movement is pretty
silly. I strongly believe that they
are inferior to men and that they
are sex symbols. I think that if a
woman is very demanding she
does not possess enough
femininity to attract men
anyway.