February 17, 1969
N.C. ESSAY
Page 3
HOW LONG CAN A WALL ^ST?
Look around you. Take a good,
long look. People drawn together by
a common bond of Individuality..
drawn to a place where they are re-
congnized for what thav can do and
what they are outside the strict
standards established for them by
society. The magnetism of the
School of the Arts attracts those
who share a dedication to their ta
lents and their minds; those who
seek freedom to be what they choose
to be without the fear of society’s
frown find their refuge here. They
come with their sorrows clutched in
their hands; they learn, they love,
they share, and they turn their sor
rows into beauty.
Within the boundaries of this
sometimes turbulent campus, the pri
son wall of Accepted Behavior is
tom down, brick by brick, and a new
more flexible wall of individual be
havior patterns is built to replace
it. This wall - or gate - offers
a security and a strangely stormy
peace that we could not find else
where. Moral codes and personal
concepts that invite skepticism and
or lack of toleration in the Outside
are accepted and understood here.
Impulse rules. The will is un
chained and allowed to express it
self without the hypocrasy that cor
rupts beauty. Love dominates: love
PROBLEM X
By Jeffrey Haynes
I have travelled beyond the
heavens where the stars have disap
peared and the darkness has fled.
I am somewhere, I am nowhere, I am
real, I am not real; I am unsure.
Thrusting myself upward from my
natural state, my journey has com
menced. My spirit is me and I am
gone. I have been consumed in some
thing called 'time' which is really
an hallucination of now, then and
will be. This 'time' is no longer
my imagination, 'time' is God (I use
this term to mean ultimate.)
Time moves, events that have
past have been channeled, they're
not gone. I know this because I en
tered this channel, but unfortunate
ly my memory escapes me and I shall
explain why. Moving into the events
of the past, I found what history
texts have long dictated, but as I
moved further back strange occuren
ces began to happen. It could be
described as a sort of a trembling
sensation, but it wasn't, it was
more of a loss of identity. This
happened because I reached a gap in
time in which my spirit didn't exist
and I realized that I must be reach
ing the beginning. Through intense
thought of self and want I (as time)
(aon 't on page 4)
by Tony Sparger
of one's art, love and appreciation
of the skills and labors of oneself
and of others, love of each other,
and love of ourselves. This unin
hibited love and open expression of
same is so much a part of the ar
tist's learning growing process;
without it, he and his work are
stifled.
Yet, in the midst of this happy
reflection, we must stop and ask
ourselves how long we can hold on to
this security. People come and go.,
and come back again, searching for
the renewed confidence that the
bleak Beyond wrenched from them. A
great part of the efforts of this
school is to instill in us that con
fidence so that adverse circumstance
cannot take it from us. In spite of
n€UJ SPORTS
Dessert snatching is the most
popular sport on the N.C.S.A. cam--
pus. The regulated one-dessert-per-'
person does not stop the skinny bas-i
soonist, Michael McCraw (Reggie),;
our sportsman this week. His world
record is six desserts in one sit
ting—all snatched under the not
that careful eyes of Mrs. Walker!
Congratulations Reggie?
Last week's sportsman, Randy
Ellis was challenged this week by
Richard Buckley. Randy caught a
green jello cube in his mouth at the
distance of fourty-two feet, thus
maintaining his title. To the sur
prise of some, Richard's mouth
seemed smaller.
Until next week sports
fanSi I remain your
I^.C.S.A. Sports Editor^ Martha
Amper
YE STUDENTS OF BEGINNINGS !!
Oh, ye great old students of begin
nings ,
When will you break your cliques?
Will it be after everything is gone
and all you've done is bitch?
Oh, ye grand old students of begin
nings .
Will there ever be a year like the
first?
Or will you always turn your pom
pous noses up at the new?
Oh, ye stilted old students of be
ginnings .
It makes me puke to see you in your
little group.
All believing that no one can under
stand but you.
Don't bitch; because you are part of
the reason for the retrogresion
of a dream at N.C.S.A.
Open up and give a little if you're
really interested in what you
sulk about!
our sheltered realities here, we
must accept that there is a crueler
and more rigid reality outside. And
we cannot escape it. We cannot walk
the fields of freedom forever fol
lowed closely behind by our private
realities. Society will try to ig
nore us into submission; only the
inhumanly strong and determined can
overcome.
'Tis a consideration to be met
full face, tackled with forewarning,
and fought until victory decides.
CONTEMPORARY SYM=OS *M
(oon't from page 1)
All sessions will be held in
the auditorium of Main Hall at the
School of the Arts, and they are
open to the public without charge.
Buketoff will conduct the Pied
mont Chamber Orchestra and will at
tend all sessions. The chamber or
chestra is composed of the Clarion
Wind Quintet, the Claremont String
Quartet (both in residence at the
School of the Arts), the Ciompi
String Quartet (in residence at Duke
University) and other professional
musicians of the area.
The Piedmont Chamber Orchestra
was created by a grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation which was
presented to the School of the Arts
for the purpose of creating a pro
fessional chamber orchestra which
would be available for tours
throughout the southeastern region
of the United States.
The grant was given also to
serve composers of the southeastern
region through reading sessions and
performances of their work, which is
resulting in the Symposium of Con
temporary Music.
Composers of the 18 scores
which were chosen for reading at the
symposium are: Carl Alette of Mo
bile, Ala.; John Baker of Winthrop
College at Rock Hill, S.C.; Eddie
Bass of the University of North Car
olina at Greensboro; Gary Buchanan
of Sanford, a student at the School
of the Arts; Philippe Buhler of the
School of the Arts; William Duck
worth of Wilson; John Duncan of Ala
bama State College at Montgomery;
Keith Gates of Lake Charles, La., a
student at the School of the Arts;
Dwight Gustafson of Bob Jones Uni
versity at Greenville, S.C.; Roger
Hannay of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Robert Hen-
sel of Richmond, Ky.; Mark Hughes of
Hattiesburg, Miss.; Jeffrey King of
Athens College at Athens, Ala; Don
ald Maclnnis of Chamblee, Ga., mem
ber of the Atlanta Symphony Orches
tra; Frederick Mueller of Morehead
State University at Morehead, Ky.;
Margaret Sandresky of Salem College
at Winston-Salem; Sherwood Shaffer
of the School of the Arts; and Ro
bert Stewart of Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va. ,