PAGE TWO—Smoke Signals, Wednesday, October 13, 1971
EDITORIALS
Selecting a Queen
When are the students of Chowan College going to
•vake out of their slumber and demand their rights?
Every year in the fall, a Homecoming queen is elected
represent the entire college at the annual
Homecoming activities. Even though she represents
over 1,500 people, only 40 varsity football team members
has the privilege to vote.
Is this fair?
The S.G.A. has already made great progressions in
true student representation by revising the student
Senate. A change in procedures of election of the
Homecoming Queen is long overdue. If you feel you
deserve a vote in the Homecoming Queen elections,
write the S.G.A. and make your opinions known.
—Richard Jackson
A New Committee
As a member of the Dorm Council, I have the duty to
try my peers that have accumulated five call-downs or
some other minor offense.
However, the only true authority the Dorm Council
has is to direct how long the punishment, generally
social-campus, will last.
When a person pomes to us he has already been found
guilty by the administration and it is our job not to try
him, but to sentence him.
I wouldn’t mind sentencing a person if I could actually
give the person a trial-by-jury, but according to the
administration this is not our job. Our job is only to try a
person who has already been found guilty by the ad
ministration.
I propose that the Dorm Council should change their
name from Dorm Council to “Sentencing Committee.”
—Norman Eddleton
Social Co-Chairman,
South Dorm
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Roving Reporter
QUESTION: How would you like
to see Chowan changed?
Having gone to Chowan for two years, I have heard
more than enough whimpering, whining and com
plaining about Mr. Graham. The general consensus
among students seems to be that his purpose here is to
play buddy-buddy to the sophomores and nursemaid to
the freshmen. His real purpose is to rid the campus of
drugs, see that we are not all mown down by drunken
drivers or murdered in cold blood for the dollar our
mother sent us from home.
I maintain, that the reason so many of us can not see
eye-to-eye with Graham is not necessarily, or at least
not wholly his fault. I hear talk of individualism here at
~ Chowan an^ae it demoKtrated nowhere. What I do see
* is a flagrant attempt onihe part of the student body to
mass together out of fear of being different or not
enough initiative to think for themselves. Either way,
not much personal value is being gained, except the
safety of being in the middle of the mob where everyone
looks alike and therefore no fingers can be pointed.
All the dissent against Graham is merely another
thing for the Chowan students to complain about. Such a
feeling of rapport is established among students when
they have someone in common to hate. Graham has
become quite a legend and people here seem to dislike to
break tradition. Many of the things he is hated for are
merely heresay, a most reliable source of information.
Many of those who gather this information do not take
the time to even digest it before they pass it on to
whoever is standing on their immediate right or left.
Graham is a great universal joke; a topic in which the
students feel comfortable. When conversation lags at
the dinner table, after moaning about the miserable
food, homosexual teachers and how there is nothing to
do in Murfreesboro there is still “The Tacties of
Graham” to complain about.
Do not mistake me. I am not speaking for or against
Graham. I do not work for him. I was not paid to write
this article. I have something to say about the disgust
engendered by those members of the student body too lazy
to try and discover the facts, with not enough sense to
keep their mouths shut when they don’t have the facts.
My final word is this: Do not listen to everything your
neighbor says—he may know as little as you do.
—Diane Freda
Student Dissension
Ever since my enrollment here as a freshman last
year, I have time and time again heard students com
plain about various things on campus. The complaints
were far-reaching and covered a variety of areas.
Nothing is done on campus that is to the liking of these
complainers. While I admit that many of these com
plaints are legitimate, they are usually not brought to
the attention of the proper personnel.
If one has a complaint about the food in the cafeteria
or something that has to do with the cafeteria, it does
little good to voice this complaint to your friend sitting
across the table from you where you are eating. Rather,
I am sure that Mr. Wilson would welcome any and all
suggestions that would be helpful in improving the
situation.
The same goes for a lot of other things on campus.
While one person might argue, that it would do little or
no good to voice opinion to the proper person because
a solution to the liking of the complainer would not be
brought about; on the other hand the complainer might
receive an answer that justifies the way things are set
up in that particular situation. Here again, is something
that many students fail to recognize.
Some things are set up the way they are, not to in
timidate people but because it has been proven that this
way works the best for that given situation.
Another complaint that is often heard around campus
is that the Smoke Signals is not the sounding board for
CRICKET STRAWDERMAN
I would like to see later hours
for girls. The food should be
improved, also, for what we pay.
I would like to see Chowan get
more liberal minded teachers.
What happened to the washing
machines and dryers that were
supposed to be in the girls’
dorms?
JOHN ZACHARIAS
I’d like to have Chapel once a
week. It should be one hour with
an organized program. Some of
the programs now are a waste of
time. I’d also like to see more
activities here. There ought to be
more privileges for girls.
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NANCY LAUGHLIN
I would like to see the dress
code, curfew, and rules, made
more lenient.
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BILL RUDD
I would like to see the dress
code changed. I also feel that the
way girls must sign out should be
changed. This school has good
potential but it would be better if
it were not Baptist because of
some of the rules imposed upon
us.
PAM GALLUP
I would like to see the girls’
curfew changed. There are too
many rules to break. I would like
to see the method of signing out
changed. I also would like to see
the method of giving call downs
changed. If you are in a room or
in the general area where there
are girls talking or making too
much noise, you also receive a
call down. This is unfair.
KEITH MAPLES
The rules and dress code are
too strict.
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students, rather it is filled with eccentric stories from
the AP teletype system and news concerning President
Whitaker and the college. While their complaint is
valid, few of these students are doing anything to help
alleviate the situation. What the editor of “The Smoke
Signals” needs more than anything is for students to
write student news for the paper. If they have com
plaints, they should write a letter to the editor voicing
this complaint. While the language used in voicing this
complaint should be refrained, all students should be
able to properly state his complaint so that it can be
printed in the paper.
In closing this article, I leave with you one thought I
hope you will remember it when complaints begin to get
you down. Please go to the proper people, don’t just talk
among fellow students and let it go at that; and last but
not least, voice these complaints in a letter to the editor.
—Jim Hunter
If the student government
was at all effective last year its
success was due only to a
minute segment of its
membershep. The majority of
legislature did not even attend
the monthly meetings and
when they were in attendance
hey spent more time arguing
about what would pass
through the administration
than what would pass in their
own chamber. The real reason
for their ineffectiveness was
due to a large extent to their
not having a specific con
stituency. By being elected at-
large from the student body
they had no actual con
stituency to answer to. In fact
you could’t find a handful of
people on this campus who
even knew who the legislators
were. Because of this, Student
Legislature ended in dismal
failure with each branch of S.
G. A. blaming the Student
Legislature failure on the
other branches. After wat
ching this farce, I was con
vinced there had to be a better
more efficient way to run this
segment of Student Govern
ment.
During the summer I gave
the problem much thought and
came up with a complete plan
of reorganization for the
Student Legislature. This plan
would make each member of
the legislature responsive to
his constituency.
There would be a 38 member
legislature. Each floor, of
each major dormitory, woiUd
elect one of its menmbers to
the legislature except in the
cases where there are 70 or
more residents on one floor. In
this case an additional
representative would be
elected. The remaining
dormitories would elect one of
its members to serve tn the
legislature. Under this plan,
South Hall would have 9
legislators, West and Belk
Halls would have 6 each. The
day students would have 4
representatives. East hall
would have 3 members.
Jenkins, Mixon and Columns
would have 2 representatives
each. Barricks, College
Street, Ttone Hall and the off
campus students would have 1
representative each. These
legislators would be elected as
soon as possible to serve for
first semester, and would be
elegible for re-election in
January to serve for second
semester.
This would place each
legislature in contact daily
with the people he represents.
I feel this will make him
represent them more faith
fully and give the legislature
in general a better cross
section of opinion.
Tomorrow in chapel you will
be asked to vote on this plan. I
urge you to vote yes on
measure. I am certain that this
is a viable route to successful
Student Legislature.
Bill Hutchens
S. G. A. President
SGA Movie
Schedule
October 20, “The Cardinal”,
Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley.
Religious drama.
November 3, “W.C. Fields
Film Festival”, W. C. Fields.
Comedy.
Novermber 17, “Wait Until
Dark”, Audrey Hepburn,
Richard Crenna. Suspense
Thriller.
December 1, “The Mouse That
Roared”, Peter Sellers, Jean
Seberg. Comedy
January 19, “The Ambushers”,
Dean Martin. Spy-Comedy.
February 2, “Laurel and Hardy
Film Festival”, Comedy.
February 16, “Wild in the
Streets”, Christopher Jones.
Student Drama.
March 1, “I Love You Alice B.
Toklas”, Peter Sellers, Leigh-
Taylor Young. Comedy.
March 15, “Dead Heat On A
Merry-Go-Round”, James
Coburn, Aldo Ray. Exciting
comedy.
March 26, “The
Professionals”, Burt Lancaster,
Lee Marvin. Action-packed
Western.
March 29, “Little Rascals Film
Festival”, Comedy.
April 12, “The Last Man On
Earth”, Vincent Price. Horror
Flick.
April 26, “The Good Guys and
the Bad Guys”, Robert Mitchum,
George Kennedy.
“Oh! Say, Can You Sing?”
Some people never stop looking for
things to meddle with.
George London, artistic director of
the Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, would like to see the United
States get itself a national anthem that
can be sung by untrained voices
(whatever that means).
Mr. London declares that at football
games almost nobody sings “The Star-
Spangled Banner” from beginning to
end. The disgrace here, in my opinion,
is not with the song but with the
American public.
London suggests that the music was
borrowed from an old English drinking
song and that the song “is impossible
to sing if you’re sober.” So there! You
see where the problem lies.
I’ve attended quite a few football
games in my day (Chowan games not
to be included in the following,
please!), and I’ll venture to say that a
large majority of those present
couldn’t, because of their liquid
polution, sing “Come to Jesus” in
whole notes.
An American football game is a poor
lab in which to test the suitability of our
national anthem.
One solution might be to retain
Francis Scott Key’s stirring lyrics
while pulling down some of those high
notes, especially the notes that ignite
the rockets’ red glare, the phrase
which always topples the inebriates if
they strain for it.
In all due respect to Mr. London, we
own a great deal more to Americanism
today than to throw out “The Star-
Spangled Banner.” Lower the key,
shorten the range, perhaps—but
discard it never.
Graham is a Pig
For several months now, I have read
the above statement on the stairway
leading to the second floor of Marks
Hall. Obviously it was written by some
disgusted student who probably should
have inscribed: Graham has done it
again!
However, it is not expected of the
guilty to pay compliments. It irritates
me, though, to see such scribbling in
public places. For years I have wanted
to strangle those students who
somehow feel an obligation to record
their biological functions on the face of
our desks in Marks Hall.
And last year some dear soul whose
personality I’d crossed wrote a most
uncomplimentary remark about me in
one of the bathrooms. I really didn’t
care, but it was most unkind to my
mother since it referred to whom I was
a son of.
In the first place, Graham is no pig. I
was reared on a farm and I think I
know a little something about these
hoofed creatures.
Pigs grunt their communication and
have only one thing on their mind:
eating and sleeping. No one could
accuse Graham of this. I don’t think he
does either with much neglect to his
duties. Too, pigs plot their simple
course by rooting and our man never
stays in one place long enough for that.
The fact that Graham doesn’t have a
cork-screw tail is also in his favor
keeping him further from being a pig.
Yes, I’m afraid the statement on the
wall is wrong; Graham is no pig. If he
fails in this category, he must be
something else.
Billy Graham is Chowan’s Chief
Security Officer on campus. He’s
dedicated to this job in a way in which
few of his contemporaries are. He’s a
cop, a detective, and he’s also a friend
to a lot of people around here. He’s an
officer of the law and if the Powers-
That-Be will pardon me, he’s a darn
good one.
Of course, I don’t understand his
operational techniques, but I don’t
have to in order to see the results of his
work. He couldn’t do my job (I don’t
think) and I certainly can’t do his—
and neither can those of my number
who are so quick to believe they can.
Apy reader of these words would (Jo a
lot worse than to make his acquain
tance and to appreciate his efforts on
their behalf.
People in the News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Beth-
esda Naval Hospital officials
and spokesmen for Supreme
Court Justice Hugo L. Black’s
office refuse to issue any infor
mation about his condition or
the reason he is under medical
care.
The hospital confirmed Sept.
2 that Black was a patient, but
all other questions were re
ferred to Black’s office. In
quiries have gone unanswered.
Black, at least unofficially, is
expected to be on hand when
the court reconvenes Oct. 4.
port, traded violins and then
improvised a serenade for an
audience of 10, including Men
uhin’s wife.
' The music in a private room
at the Rome airport lasted for
about 15 minutes Monday, then
the two violinists boarded the
same flight for Paris.
One of the so-called Soledad
Brothers, Jackson was shot to
death in what prison officials
have called an abortive escape
attempt. Two other convicts
and three guards were also
killed.
ROME (AP) — Violinists
Henryk Szeryng and Yehudi
Menuhin met at the Rome air-
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Dr. Whitaker,
My name is Thomas E. Neale
ni from Norfolk, Va., and I
graduated from Chowan in May
of 1970. I am now a student at
the University of South Carolina
and even though I am very happy
here, I will never forget my two
wonderful years at Chowan.
When I graduated from high
school I had below average
grades and really wondered if I’d
ever get into college. I applied to
Chowan and was accepted and as
I look back on it now, it was one of
the best things that ever hap
pened to me. Chowan gave me a
chance at a college education and
even though I didn’t break any
academic records there, I did
make good grades and
graduated. I am now doing well
at U. S. C. and would just like to
say that if it hadn’t been for
Chowan and the top notch
education I received there, I
would never have gotten in U. S.
C. and done well.
I’m sure you have received
many letters like mine from
Chowan graduates who have
gone on to four year schools and
done well. Mine is just another
testimony in behalf of Chowan
and the fine education I received
there.
Sincerely,
Thomas E. Neale III
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) —
The Fischer quintuplets, born
to a $100-a-week stock clerk
and his wife, celebrate their
eighth birthday Tuesday.
The quints—Mary Cann, Ca
thy, Margie, Maggie and Jim
my—are second graders at a
Roman Catholic School in this
city of 27,000.
Their father, Andrew Fis
cher, now owns and operates
an 800-acre farm purchased
with funds from contracts with
a magazine, publishing com
pany, national dairy foods firm
and from other sources after
the birth of the quints.
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Charles Manson, cult leader
sentenced to die for the Tate-
LaBianca killings, has lost his
visiting privilege for 10 days
because he set fire to the bed
ding in his cell, authorities say.
Manson, 36, currently on trial
for the murders of musician
Gary Hinman and stuntman
Donald “Shorty” Shea, set fire
to a towel and blankets Monday
before going to court, autorities
said.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Georgia Jackson, mother of
slain San Quentin convict
George Jackson, says she will
ask the United Nations to probe
the death of her son at the Cali
fornia prison Aug. 21.
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Actor
Ernest Borgnine, who won an
Oscar for the film “Marty” and
later starred in the “McHale’s
Navy” television series, has
been sued for divorce by his
fourth wife.
Donna Anna Borgnine, 38,
asked Superior Court Monday
for division of community prop
erty and support of their chil
dren, Cristofer, 5 and Sharon 6.
The Borgnines married in 1965.
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