October 9, 1970
The N.C. Essay
Page
"The Clue in the Moss-Covered Toffee-
Tin;" OR, "The Well-Tempered Meat
Cl&aver." A continuing saga of
Mystery and Suspense by Alexander N. ,|
Marsh
Part One
One could not help but hear. It
was spread across the monochrome sur
face of the press, it blared from the
tubes of the broadcast medias. Women,
and sometimes men too, were stopped
and warned by vigilant police officers
on their late night duties. The sale
of light bulbs, it has been reported,
multiplied rapidly during the terror-
charged month when the metropolitan
cosmos of our city were the stalking
grounds for that phantom-killer; no
one wanted to be alone in the dark.
But the deaths continued, each
with the same heinous earmarks of
its antecedent: the skull burst
asunder, the throat a pulpy entangle
ment of air-thickened blood, twisted
cartilage, and creamy flesh. One
consulting doctor, a Scandinavian
chap, propsoed that the murderer
had chewed his victims' necks. This
theory, discarded by most, still
claimed a fearful group who brandished
their plastic Marys whereever they
went. Some fanicful citizens thought
he was a vampire, others a jealous
lover. But the entire populous of our
city agreed that a monstrous being
had swooped like a ravenous leech
upon us and the local authorities
(including their band of ace detect
ives) sternly challanged the murderer’s
every move. ,
!ft,was at this time that I, Colin
Hawthorn, had chosen to migrate to
the provincial safety of my Auntie
Climaxe's mansion in the Ka^kill
Mountains. Often had my Aunt implored
me to spend a restful fortnight, but
my demanding job as drama critic for
a prominent periodical had refrained
me from accepting.
But the city editor, Randy, had
relieved me of my labors and I, though
feebly insisting that I really shouldn't
leave, finally submitted to a twor
week break. Randy assured me that he
was competent for the role of drama
reviewer . . . .after all, he DID
dabble in acting in High School. Or
did he only hand out programs?
At any rate, I was filling my
green plaid, terrycloth luggage with
clothing when the radio excreted
another grisly bulletin of murder.
In this particular case, it was an
elderly laundress who received the
bitter taste of his ghastly brand of
death. But I could not be bothered
with mashed laundresaJSon that night.
My imagination was in the lush ridges
of the New York mountains.
I set out before dawn in my
small, fig-colored automobile. The
urban pinnacles still glistened with
CcoM. on H.)
Errata: In our haste to get the
Essay out on time last week, we
made a few minor, but irritating
mistakes. First of all, "Courtney
Jones" is really Courtland Jones;
our apologies. "It's The Real Thing,"
the artice about the Coca-Cola com
plex was reprinted (with permission)
from The Distant Drummer, a fine
little paper fhat battles corruption
and Police Chief Rizzo in Phila
delphia, Pa. Finally, the article
concerning the lack of space in the
music dept., titled "No Room!," was
written by none other than Court
land Jones.
S.C.a C0mPL6T6
After the last election results
were tallied the Student Council
Association became a complete body
of representatives. The following
is a list of all the representatives
who will serve on the council until
the spring of '71:
Lower Division - Leslie Spotz
Jesse Hawkins
Middle Division - Alan Smallwood
, Annette Kamienski
Upper Division - Lauren Eager
Marylin McIntyre
Dance Dept. - Jeff Satinoff
Becky Slifkin
Music Dept. - Phil Wachowski
Karen Wilson
Drama Dept. - Carol Rogers
Gene Johnson
Dept, of Design and Production-
Debbie Litwack
Randy Herderson
Visual Arts Dept. - Diane Bower
Tommy Buzbee
Writing Dept. - Edwin Schloss
E. Henry Power
Editor of the N.C. Essay -
Mike Ferguson
President - Tommy Williams
Vice President - Stanley Bernstein
Secretary - Kathy Fitzgerald
Judicial Board Chairman -
Joyce Reehling
If you have any grievances,
contact the person on this list who
is your representative. The Council
meets every other Wednesday in the
middle seminar room in the Commons
Building at 12:30. Items for the
agenda should be given to your repre
sentative or to Stanley Bernstein
no later than the Monday which
precedes the meeting. The meetings
are open to members of the student
body
PGRSP6CT1UES
EDITORIAL *
Sh'n ^PiHCELOHA
Aristotle has left educators
with the warning that "the only true
knowledge is what becomes second
nature." It is a warning that edu
cators, but for a few notable ex
ceptions, have chosen to ignore.
What Aristotle seems to be im
plying here is that schools should
teach students and not just subjects.
Students should be ionaidered as
something to which the subject mat
ter should adapt to and not the re
verse. This means that, above all
else, the student must be considered
as an individual who has particular
needs, interests, and capacities.
Naturally, he is a part of a group,
but more important, he is something
apart from it as well.
Schools should strive to free
the student's mind, now bound up with
busywork, to pursue areas of study in
which he will have an interest and
therefore incorporate into himself
this true knowledge as second nature.
All of us remember the school
subjects "we had to take" (because we
had to take them) and how precious
little we retained. Those wasted
hours should have been put to use to
ward perfecting skills and talents we
felt at home with and could both lit
erally and figuratively grow up with.
It is in this critical period of
human history, in a society already
rampant with dehumanization, that:’’it
is the school's duty, as the last re
sort of humanization, to start teach
ing students and not subjects.
Notice: Due to the absence of
several important staff members next
week and because we are currently
plotting new ways to make this a
better paper The Essay will not
publish next week. Several things
have to be taken care of, so we'll
spend the time regrouping our forces.
We'll see you in two weeks with a
story on the Italy tour, a look at
Women's Lib., and all kinds of groovy
stuff. Thank You.
Editor