October 2, 1970
The N.C. Essay
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A member of the President's
Commission on Campus Unrest said Sun
day it had concluded the killing of
six student demonstrators last May at
Kent State University and Jackson
State College was "completely unjust
ified. "
The Commission, which gave Presi
dent Nixon a report Saturday on the
general problem of campus unrest and
what can be done about it, will issue
separate reports this week on its in
vestigation of the Kent State and
Jackson State tragedies.
But Joseph Rhodes Jr., a junior
fellow at Harvard and, at 22, the
youngest member of the commission’s
10 members, said "we found that on
both cases the use of deadly force
was completely unjustified."
Rhodes spelled out the commis
sion's finding during an appearance
on NBC-TV’s "Meet The Press" program
with former Gov. William Scranton of
Pennsylvania, head of the commission,
and New Haven Police Chief James Ahern,
another member of it.
At Jackson, Miss., where two stu
dents were slain when police opened
fire on a women's dormitory, Rhodes
said: "We found people in law enforce
ment . . . who demonstrated a remark
able, incredible lack of concern for
the human life of black people, who
regarded the black people of Mississ
ippi as fair game for their missiles,
for their weapons and acted in seem
ingly totally unprofessional ways,
given the circumstances ..."
At Kent State in Ohio, where four
students died after Ohio National
Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of
antiwar demonstrators protesting the
U.S. move into Cambodia, Rhodes said
the commission heard contradictory
testimony.
"But the thing that I think was
that we found students who felt that
. . . their campus had been invaded
by the National Guard," He said.
Scranton said he thought the
"horror and tragedy" at Kent and Jack
son after the Cambodian Incursion
"had a very deep effect on the ad
ministration." He said he detected
"quite a change . . . this summer
in the wording and the rhetoric that
has come out of some of the high
officials in the govenment."
The Student Council Association
of the North Carolina School of the
Arts announces the formation of a
special project to improve relations
between the students of the School
of the Arts and the North Carolina
public.
The project, in the form of.a
student committee, will attempt to
gain the interest and support of
surrounding communities through a
wide and enthusiastic public relations
campaign. Emphasis in the campaign
will be placed on frequent press re
leases concerning not only the
students' artistic endeavors, but
also their participation in comm
unity projects.
Students will produce public
service announcements for radio and
television stations in the area will
ing to broadcast them. Another ser
vice of the committee will be to
act as a booking agency to place
students as guest performers in
clubs, at conventions and banquets,
etc.
Persons interested in support
ing this committee or desiring to
secure students for programs should
contact Gene Johnson, Public Relations
Committee, Student Council Associa
tion, North Carolina School of the
Arts, Winston-Salem, N.C.
REVi EW- ‘isSk*"
Little Murders by Jules Feiffer;
Published by Random House, $1.95,
paperback.
Little Murders is another one of
those Hate America Put-Down comedies.
The genre, instigated so brilliantly
by Edward Albee and his American Dream,
has been widely imitated with degen
erated quality. Feiffer's play os
cillates from bad to mediocre. New
York City is the center for casti
gation, with its air pollution,
noise, power failures, and (in part
icular) street violence.
There is a man in it vh o typifies
the All-America-Rugged-Conservative.
Then there is his silly spouse, teeny-
bopper son, masculine daughter, and
her emasculated boyfriend. This is,
in a way, a true success formula...
it's hard to resist anything that
attacks American pitfalls and pseudo
liberals. But the humor is not subtle
or clever. Obvious things are criti
cized by weak comedy; the play is a
slick compilation of Anti-Yankee
corn. It's supposed to be hilariously
funny when the toilet flushes every
couple of minutes and the television-
type housewife yells "Come an' git
it'."
One might do better by playing
the national anthem with a kazoo.
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"Two years ago the School of '
Design and Production was established
at the North Carolina School of the
Arts. As part of the design courses,
a considerable amount of background
in the visual arts became necessary.
The high school students in design
made us aware of the need on the
high school level for a major in the
visual arts parallel to the majors
in the performing arts which the
school now offers to other high schod
students.
"The idea for such a program was
therefore discussed with appropriate
people in the State Education offices
where it was greeted with enthusiasm.
"This first year the enrollment
will be kept small since this is in
every way an experiment."
FisHGR-^DinGmfin
Ccont ^rom poge 1)
Last May, Dingman was one of
eight dancers who filmed Gian-Carlo
Menotti's "The Unicorn, the Gorgon
and the Manticore" with the Paul
Hall Chorale for presentation on
National Educational Television (NET)
in October. (The program will be seen
locally on October 4, 10:00 p.m., on
Channel 4, WUNC-TV.)
In addition to numerous appear
ances on National TV shows and in
musicals, he produced USO shows during
his navy service and filmed a series
on the national dances of different
European countries for use on ed
ucational TV.
He was director of the Ballet
Guild of Jacksonville, Florida, where
he also founded and operated his own
school for ten years. The Concert
Ballet, which he developed, remained
during his tenure an Honor Company
in the National Regional Ballet
Association.
Dingman and his wife, the former
Loretta Williams, have five children,
the oldest of whom has been a scholai?-
ship student at the Washington Acadetiy
of Ballet.
Alexalr^cle^ Ma^sVi
Alexander Marsh, newly appointed
arts critic of the NC Essay, comes to
us from Thaer, Kansas (watermelon cap
ital of the world). His interests in
clude collecting Toscanini records
and worshiping Washington Irving. He
also collects medieval ceramic chamber
pots. Marsh will excercise his in
credible critical acumen in various
aesthetic genres. Next week he will
begin a mystery serial which he guar
antees will titillate your sense of
the macabre and the "primitive fears
of your id." Marsh, 32 and a high
school senior, reminds us that this
year is the 150th anniversary of the
publication of the Washington Irving
Sketchbook.