January 12, 1969
The N. C. Essay
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ETIERS
Pre-Registration: Exciting New
Courses Heretofore Restricted and
Unpublished
Contemporary Goat Skinning 101: meets
every day of the week 7:30-9:00,
11;30-1:00, and 5:00-6:30 in the
cafeteria.
Ancient Etruscan Pornography 102:
tutorial only.
Adv. English 504 - An Introd. to
Propaganda: guest speakers to
include Sprio Agnew.
The Theater As An Ego Trip 203: team
taught by Bob Gordon and his dummy.
Basic Carnival Techniques: includes
the old Indian rope trick.
Television As A Vehicle For Religious
Philosophies: includes study of
Howdy Doody as a Christ-figure.
Team taught by Rev. Glenesk and
Oral Roberts.
Elevator Tuning 203: no prerequisite
needed.
Early Grit Cooking: meets same time,
same place as Cont. Goat Skinning.
Brobdignagian Miniatures From The 13th
Century To The Present 203: remedial.
Room Inspection For Fun And Profit 402:
text Blitzkrieg.
Restoration Period Computer Pro
gramming 101: Study of computer
dating in Medieval England projected
for next year.
Fun Things To Do In Winston-Salem:
due to shortage of materials, this
class will only meet once a month
for 10 minutes.
Dear Editor and assorted others.
Thank you for taking over the
production of The Artful Dodger^
a project which I was deeply con
cerned with. My special thanks to
Tom Cavano who so thoughtfully
shouldered most of the work after
my somewhat abrupt and unheralded
departure.
It is my sincere hope that the
magazine will come to fill a vital
function at the school; the need for
a stylized, good means of literary
expression.
Knowing the pains Mr. Cavano
must have gone through trying to
decipher my nearly undecipherable
notes and instructions, plus pain
stakingly reassembling the mass of
work that was not yet typed up leaves
me with a sense of gratitude and
honour, that my ideas about the maga
zine deserved that sort of time.
I hope that the magazine con
tinues to improve and that the stu
dent body takes interest in its
progress. If the staff of The
Essay is any indication of the sort
of interest that the magazine will
receive, I doubt if there will be
any problem of disinterest, (although
I painfully know that interest is
more a concept at this school than an
actuality).
My best wishes for a fruitful,
productive year are extended to
everyone of the staff members and
fellow students.
Sincerely,
Jim Bobbitt
The residents of Kimberly
Park and the Boy-Girl Scouts of '
Troop 896 wish to convey their
thanks for a wonderful evening of
entertainment presented on the
17th of December.
Wilbert Allen, Pres.
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'These were the best rock/folk
LPs that played in my head last year.
Certainly we all won't agree, but I
hope you’ll find these selections
interesting. As no preference was
intended, the list is alphabetical:
HAPPY NEW DECADE
Gwen Spear
Ten percent of our New Years
assume special importance because
they herald new decades. This is one
of them. Historians must tell us
later, with some degree of objectivity,
what the Sixties amounted to. But
everybody who lived in them and
is entering the new decade already
has his opinion, colored by his own
circumstances and values. For some,
the Sixties will be recalled as a
matter of barely surviving many
things gone wrong with the world and
society. For others, the Sixties
will be recorded as a hopeful decade,
a decade of promises.
Gloom is not an unjustifiable
attitude towards the Sixties, nor is
it a completely unreasonable outlook
for the Seventies. Hunger, war, do
mestic discord, poverty, serious in
flation and other major problems
plagued us in the old decade and will
do so far into the new. Still, to
see the Sixties as a time of outbreak
of a record number of new difficul
ties is to discredit the era. Very
few new ailments were born. Many old
ones were squarely faced for the
first time and our first real efforts
to diagnose and cure some of them got
going. The most embittered pessimist
can take comfort in the thought that
knowing and measuring problems
brought big breakthroughs and pointed
to unprecedented ability to combat
those problems in this decade.
Many made references to the Six
ties as the "Soaring Sixties" back
when the Fifties were expiring. And
in many ways, the Sixties did soar.
Science advanced against diseases and
on many other fronts. Culturally,
freedom of expression made tremendous
gains. Materially, just about all of
us had more of everything. Socially
and politically, minority groups took
big steps toward quality. Man got
to the moon. In many respects, people
began to be more honest with them
selves and each other, properly
questioning a lot of things long con
sidered unquestionable. The list of
ways in which we soared could go on
and on.
There are reasons to dread the
new decade but there are, it would
seem, many more reasons to look for
ward to it. The historians studying
the Sixties and Seventies too are most
likely going to side with the op
timists—which we all are, no matter
how much we regret certain facets about
the Sixties and no matter how much
uncertainty we feel walking into the
Seventies. Nobody wishes his neighbor
"Miserable New Year". We all say
"Happy New Year". And today, that old
greeting proves again a widely-shared
conviction that we can make the New
Year and the new decade happy if we
apply all our abilities and resources
to that goal. i
Abbey Road - The Beatles (Apple)
Arthur - The Kinks (Reprise)
Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead (Warner
Bros.)
The Band - (Capitol)
Crosby^ Stills^ and Nash - (Atco)
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere -
Neil Young (Reprise)
Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones (London)
Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan (Col.)
Tommy - The Who (Decca)
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
Those are the ten best (as I heard
them), but these should be mentioned
too: Bom on The Bayou^
(Cont. on page 4)