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Morch 19, 1979
Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC
Volume 10 Number 9
U.S. Accused
Of Culpabiliiy
In Jonestown
By SALLY MULVIHILL
INDIANA, PA (CPS) - It was, she
says, a good idea turned sour.
Terri Buford especially liked Rev.
Jim Jones’ concept of people banding
together to better the lives of ghetto
residents in Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. But, of course, it ended tragical
ly-
Terri Buford, though, is one of the
BUFORD
lucky ones. She lived to talk about it.
Yet when she does talk, she worries out
loud that someone — Temple
dissidents, the government — may be
trying to kill her.
Buford, 26, was an aide to People’s
Temple leader Jim Jones, responsible
until just before the November mass
suicide in Guyana for some $8 million in
Temple funds. She recently visited In
diana University of Pennsylvania,
where she studied during the summer
session of 1970, where her father,
Charles Buford, still works as director
of personnel, and where ^he agreed to
be interviewed.
She returned saying that the U.S.
government can claim at least partial
responsibility for the 900 deaths in
Jonestown.
“They were constantly harrassing
she recalls. “The rumor was that
(Jones) got people elected, which
wasn’t true. I think they wanted to
discredit him before he did become a
real viable political force.”
Washington “knew there were guns
in Guyana. They knew there were drugs
in Guyana. The government knew there
was a sucicide plan, that there was a hit
list. They knew everything.”
Buford, who in the tragedy’s im
mediate aftermath was named by
several national magazines as the Tem
ple’s prime financial manager, and (by
Newsweek) as “probably the key to
unravelling” the cult’s mysteries, said
the government found out about the
Temple’s more bizarre elements when
Debbie Blakey defected from
Jonestown last summer. Blakey, ac
cording to Buford, told the U.S. State
Department about the mass suicide
plans and about the “hit list,” a list of
people to be killed in the event of Jones’
death.
Jones’ former money manager now
says the the State Department told
Blakey not to tell the press about Jones’
Guyana arsenal. The State Department
wasn’t volunteering any information,
either. Buford says that five months
before he went to Jonestown, California
Congressman Leo Ryan asked the State
Department about the settlement.
“They said the only problems there
were food and housing.”
Yet the government, Buford adds,
wasn’t the only source of harrassment.
She says Tim Stoen, formerly Jones’
top aide and attorney, also claimed to
destroy Jones and the Temple. Stoen,
she says, helped create the hit list.
Stoen now heads a group a Temple
defectors, and is pressing many of the
suits against the Temple. Those suits
totaled some $56 million when Buford fl
ed Guyana on Oct. 29, 1978, less than
one month before Rayan’s assassina
tion and the subsequent mass suicide.
Jones apparently sent an infiltrator
into Steen’s dissident group. Stoen, ac
cording to Buford, told the infiltrator
that “if he could get one person to leave
with Congressman Ryan, it would be
the utter destruction of Jonestown.”
When Stoen was still with the Temple,
Buford says, Stoen once wanted to con
tact a defector with a message that
could have been construed as a threat.
Jones said no, but Stoen made the con
tact anyway. But after leaving the
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Greg Simpson (left), Laura Askew? and Ken Boaz read from scripts as
rehearsals get under way. Photo by Charles Buie.
'Arsenic' Veterans Back
On Boards in Spring Play
By CINDY LEE
The Drama Department at Chowan
College has held auditions and is now
proceeding with its spring production of
SEND ME NO FLOWERS, a three act
comedy scheduled to be performed
April 4-6.
Mrs. Sandra Boyce, will direct the
following actors and actresses: David
Baker plays George Kimball, a
depressed hypochondriac; Laura
Askew is Judy Kimball, George’s wife;
Taghi Noktehdan is Vito, a delivery
boy; Greg Simpson is Bert Power,
Judy’s former “friend”; Ken Boaz is
Arnold Nash, George’s neighbor and
friend; all of the above actors also ap
peared in the last production,
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. Other
members of the cast are John Sullivan,
Dan White, Joyce Lane, Bentia Rober
son, Joey Austin, and Bern Davenport.
John Hawthorne and Jean Sexton as
A bit of early season action is frozen in this picture which catches Brave second baseman Dave Meadows star
ting a slide tor home , the Longwood catcher reaching for the throw, the Lancer pitcher moving in to bock up
the play, and the third base coach staring intently homeward as umpire Roy Winslow awaits the outcome of
Morris' slide for safety before making his call. Whatta you say? Safe or out? Photo by Pattie Bolgosano.
Diamonders Open With Double Win
By SUSAN PATE
The Chowan Braves started out the
1979 baseball season with a victory over
the Longwood College Lancers in a
scrimmage double-header on Saturday,
March 3.
The Braves defeated the Lancers 9-1
in the first game. In the second game
they had a 15-2 lead over the Lancers.
Under the leadership of Coach Jerry
Hawkins, the Braves are looking for
ward to a good season with the return of
several sophomores and the addition of
some very good freshman players.
The Braves were to begin their
regular season on March 16 when they
were to play Harford Community Col
lege in a home double-header.
U.S. To Check Foreign Students
For Possible Visa Violation
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - The
U.S. Department of Justice has follow
ed up its January threat to deport
Iranian students studying here with
broader resolve to keep closer track of
all foreign students matriculating in the
Unitied States. Attorney General Grif
fin Bell had asked the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) to enforce
the provisions of foreign students’ visas
more agressively. The INS, in turn, has
not only discovered that there are more
foreign student here than previously
thought, but that as many as 70 percent
of them may be violating the terms of
their visas, and thus are eligible for
deportation.
A very reliable congressional source
now estimates there are 323,000 foreign
students at American colleges and
universities, and that 231,000 of them
may be “out of status.” The term ap
plies to those who either can’t be
located, have over-stayed their visas,
or have taken jobs in defiance of the
terms of their entry into the United
States.
Vem Jervis, the INS’ public affairs
officer, says there may be a problem
tracking the “out-of-status” aliens
down. INS computers have a backlog of
two million reports, and records are
more than six months out of date.
Jervis adds that, as a result of Bell’s
directive, establishing a better record
keeping system at INS had become a
top priority.
Even after it finds a more efficient
record-keeping system,the INS will be
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employing measure that could per
manently inhibit the flow of foreign
students into the United States.
Jervis hinted that the United States
may not be as liberal toward foreign
students as it has been in the past.
When Amercian students study in other
countries, he says, they must undergo
daily follow-ups, i.e., reporting their
whereabouts and exhibiting their
passports and visas.
Hustle Can Be a Hassle
By ALLEN DAVIS
Rocking to the sound of disco music in
Daniel Hall on the weekends is a
Burke Elected
SGA President
The election of Student Govern
ment Association officers for the
1979-80 school year was held
Wednesday, February 28.
The students which were
elected to serve as officers are
Mike Burke, president; Nancy
Loy, Vice president; Terri Ar
nold, secretary; Steve Whit-
temore, treasurer; Greg Kaser-
man, social co-chairman for men
and Pat Csigi, social co
chairperson for women.
welcome relief after a week of class
drills. But for the sponsor, it’s just the
beginning of another weekend of party
hassle.
A Daniel Hall go-go sponser must fill
out forms and then get them approved
by the director of residence hall life,
Mrs. Alice D. Vann and director of stu
dent center and student activities Steve
Nelson, as well as dean of students R.
Clayton Lewis, laments Ronald Major,
a graphic arts major.
Once this is done, the sponsor has to
unlock the doors and then remove the
chairs for adequate boogeying space.
And then he has to borrow albums,
stereo equipment and a car to transport
these necessities. Major added.
Publicizing the go-go after all the ar
rangements have been made is another
hassle encounter, he said.
“After the dance is over, there is the
responsibility of restoring everything,”
he said, “However, with a lot of help
this can be a thrilling disco for all, in
stead of a burden for one,”he said.
Tuition
Guides
Contusing
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - Presi
dent Carter’s inflation guidelines, an
nounced last December, are generally
leaving colleges and universities in a
certain limbo as they try to set tuition
rates for the 1979-80 school year. “The
problem,” moans one harried ad
ministrator from Ohio State University,
“is that we don’t know if we’re suppos
ed to follow the guidelines, or if there
are special conditions for the education
community.”
The guidelines, in their broadest
form, would dictate that increases for
fees, tuition, and room and board be no
more than five percent of the 1976-77
rates. But, after a December 12 White
House announcement that the
guidelines for higher education,
“many” schools, according to one of
ficial, have applied for changes to raise
tuitions more than the allowable five
percent.
Steward Schmidt of the Wage-Price
Council, which oversees the inflation
guidelines, said that the “many con
tacts” to the council from schools don’t
really amount to pressure, but that they
have inspired “constant reconsidera
tions” for colleges on the council staff.
Under the guideline loopholes, if a
college or university can demonstrate
“uncontrollable costs,” it can structure
its prices to result in a 6.5 percent
“operating surplus” for the 1979-80
academic year. In practice, that would
allow for a higher increase in fees, tui
tion, and room and board.
Schmidt recalls that “we’ve already
been very liberal in our interpretations
(of the guidelines as they apply to col
leges). For example, we’ve been giving
allowances where the school is running
a deficit.” He would not say how many
schools havbe been allowed passage
through the loophole, or which schools
they were.
Part of the problem in formulating a
universal inflation policy for colleges
and universities is, according to
Sclimidt, the Wage-Price Council’s
small staff. Only four of the council’s 39
staffers now regularly treat higher
education inflation issues. Sclunidt
says the council has a budget for a total
of 143 staffers, and that it will ask for
money for 90 more than that. When
staff is added, he says, a more consis-
tant policy — and enforcement — will
be possible.
That, however, may be too late. Most
schools set their rates for the next
academic year in January and
February.
Energy Costs
Nearly Triple
By ALLEN DAVIS
Energy cost at Chowan College has
nearly tripled over the past seven
years. This increase was caused by the
rising cost of fuel oil and electricty.
The cost per student in 1972 was $81
and in 1973 it was $121, superintendent
of building and grounds Jack Hassell
said.
In 1974 it was $144 and by 1975 it had
more than doubled with a figure of $176.
The cost in 1976 was $189 and it rose to
$205 per student in 1977.
Records of the cost for 1978 have not
been completed, but, according to the
monthly reports, the cost is still in
creasing.
Interesting People on Campus
That's No Chicken, It's Really... ?
Break-In
assistant director.
Kimball believes that he is dying so
he carefully plans for his passing, even
to the point of purchasing a cemetary
plot.
As the story progresses the audience
gets a few glimpses of Kimball’s day
dreams of what he thinks could happen
to his wife and the good-for-nothing
men with whom she becomes involved
with after his death.
Arnold Nash, a lawyer and Kimball’s
friend, can’t bear the thought of Kim
ball dying, so Nash takes to the bottle as
he proceed to write his friend’s eulogy.
The oil-wealthy Bert Power attempts
to run off with Kimball’s wife, while the
doctor goes on a long weekend fishing
trip.
The play climaxes as Kimball
discovers that he is in excellent health,
and now has to unwind the problems he
has created.
By CINDY LEE
A $100 reward has been offered for
the arrest and conviction of the person
or persons involved in the improper en
try of the Snack Bar sometime during
the night of March 3 and 4.
According to college business
manager Ben Sutton, the cleaning crew
left the outer door next to the library
unlocked.
Several students have told Sutton that
they noticed the door was not locked but
didn’t know who to tell.
A preliminary estimate placed the
loss at about $225 worth of merchan
dise.
Among the items taken were candy,
crackers, breaded shrimp, rolls and
bread, Sutton said.
Linda Thompson, snack bar
manager, said that everything was
taken from behind the counter. No one
notified her of the door being unlocked
until 1 p.m. Sunday March 4, she said.
By DANIEL BENDER
Is it a bird or a plane? No it’s jack the
Chicken!!! Jack the Chicken, alias
Danny Page, advertised the new
specialty at an Ahoskie steak house,
fillet of chicken, in a chicken suit
several weeks ago.
Page Holds Attention of Young Customer (Photo by Ken Clark)
Page, a Graphic Arts major from
Clayton, said he got the job when the
manager asked about his personality,
to which he replied, “I’ll talk to
anybody.” his employer said he was do
ing a very good job according to Page.
“It was fun,” stated Page about his
job flapping his wings and cackling
“even though 1 scared several
children.” One man in the restaurant
told his children, the big chicken would
get them if they did not behave, he
recalled.
Another Page characterization, the
Clown, was another attraction to Jacks.
Page’s hobbies include disco dancing
and carpentry. He loves disco dancing,
and also learning and making new
steps. Several steps he has helped in
vent are the swing dip and the
Guadaloup. His father owns a cabinet
shop where he makes all sorts of adds
and ends for people, for he likes work
ing with wood.
Page also said he liked the job at
Jacks because the pay isn’t Chicken
feed.