October 18« 1968
LETTER TO the
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I cannot agree with last week's
review of Tim Leary's appearance at
Wake Forest. I felt that his speech
wandered, his material was inces
santly interrupted with attempts to
create laughs, and his yogas were
thrown together to sound good and
fill in time. His God was not de
fined; his search for it appeared to
be selfish; a search in self, for
self alone. The review stated that
Leary is a man of answers. If any
one is as insecure as Leary seemed
to me to be, he can have no real
answers. Unity is more than sex and
God is wider than the self. Wisdom
comes through knowing other people;
happiness comes through loving them.
The resulting ecstacy endures longer
than an eight hour trip, and unlike
acid, leaves one feeling more secure
with others and with himself.
Laurie Randolph
VISIT TO A REPUBLICAN RALLY
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traffic jams. But then who said
Nixon had charisma? The whole
thing was over by five o'clock.
Another round of polite applause
and all went home.
The award for bravery goes to
those there who passed out the hand
bills urging support for the Calif
ornia grape boycott. This is an ef
fort by Cesar Chavez and his Mexi-
can-Americans to organize a United
Farm Workers Union to protect the
California and Texas farm workers.
But unfortunately these North Carol
ina "law and order" Republicans were
not concerned with this effort at
social justice. Justice and "law
and order" have for some reason not
been too close lately. It was none
theless a noble effort by the AFL-
CIO organizing committee.
A person could make two decis
ions from attending this Republican
rally--l) not to buy grapes and 2)
not to vote for Richard Nixon. Or
as it was written on one car-vote
for Noxin.
POETRY AS AN ART FORM
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thought of as "play impulse" it
shows the involvement and, if not
enjoyment, the relief art offers to
the creator.
Poetry supplies both poet and
reader with the satisfaction of
"play impulse" just as the Arts do.
In elementary school and at home,
the child is subjected to such poe
try as High Diddle Diddle. He re
acts to it in the same way he does
to music or fingerpainting. On a
higher level, there exists "the kind
The N.C. Essay
LIFE I
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Bleak wooden stairway |
climbing derterminedly up-
up to the basement. |
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LONLINESS I
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Engulfing question |
myriad sad lonely swans!
almost drifting smoke
PERDUTA INNOCENZA
broken bondello
pebbles on a lonely beach
-with a releived sigh
by Rebecca Dodds
of play whose pleasure exist for the
poet in overcoming meaningful and
thoughtful (and feelingful) diffi
culties, and for the reader in iden
tifying with the poet in that acti
vity."
Poetry must satisfy the desire
to communicate, for communication is
its very essence. "Poetry is a kind
of language that says more and says
it more intensly than does ordinary
language." Poetry not only expres
ses ideas but feeling, and this is
what removes language from the realm
of the ordinary and connects it with
the Arts.
If one is going to define the
Arts according to the values which
are prescribed by society, he must
include poetry. Poetry satisfies
all the desires of man that the Arts
do; poetry is creation, and an ex
pression of thoughts and emotions in
such a way that it communicates with
and involves the reader. Poetry is
Art.
by John Gabriel
ELECTION ANALYSIS
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covered that newsmen had attended
both conferences. (Newsmen are
practically the only people who are
able to question publically a candi
date's platform.)
2. Another method employed by
HHH is to use federal tax money for
purposes of getting votes. For
example, while HHH was campaigning
in Cleveland, Ohio, which has a
31.5% Negro population and a Negro
mayor, he conspicuously announced
during a speech that Cleveland's
poverty-stricken urban renewal pro
gram was received a high federal
grant. Carl Stokes, mayor, then
arose to make a strong speech that
endorsed HHH for President. Natur
ally, since Stokes controlled the
Negro vote in Cleveland, HHH corral-
ed a large block of popular support-
in one blow.
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DAWSON JOINS
FmOTY STAFF
Robert Ward, President of the
North Carolina School of the Arts,
announced the appointment of Fred
(Dirk) Dawson as Director of Public
Relations for the School of the Arts.
Dawson will serve as co-ordina
tor in communications for all de
partments at the School.
He is a native of Mount Airy.
He received an associate of arts de
gree from Lees-McRae College at Ban
ner Elk and a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree from Wake
Forest College.
For the past eight years he has
been claims representative for the
U.S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare in Winston-Salem. Most
recently he served as instructor for
a program to train college graduates
to become claims representatives.
Dawson is a graphic artist. He
has studied with Professor J. T.
Diggs in Winston-Salem. He is a
past member of the board of direc
tors of the Associated Artists of
North Carolina and a past president
of the Associated Artist of Winston-
Salem.
He has exhibited throughout the
Southeastern States and is winner of
the Best in Show Award in an Associ
ated Artists of North Carolina com
petition in Raleigh.
He served two years in the U.S.
Army, stationed in Germany.
Working with Dawson on a part-
time basis will be Miss Elizabeth
Trotman, who has been associated
with the School of the Arts since
1964, a year before the School open
ed.
Hubert H. Humphrey represents
primarily three factions of voters:
organized labor, diehard Democrats,
and people who consider Humphrey the
least evil of the three candidates.
Though nothing can be pin-pointed
about what Humphrey would do if he
were elected President, it appears
that he would alter this country's
present policies less than either
Nixon or Wallace; consequently HHH
would probably do the least good.
When the ability to administrate is
considered, Hubert Humphrey would
unquestionably be no worse than
either of his opponents; however,
Humphrey could be depended upon to
institute more bureaucratic reforms
such as; the Welfare system, ADC,
HUD, and other urban rehabilitation
programs; sustain the country's pre
sent escapade in Vietnam; create
some token laws in favor of the Ne
gro; maintain law and order with the
the same brutal force that is now
employed; and continue to do many
other things to keep this land from
progressing. However, to those con
cerned citizens who fear Hubert's
election, deepening this rut for
four more years, lear not, the S. 5.
"Happy Hubert" is sinking fast and
will hit bottom about November the
fifth.