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The N.C. Essay
Letters To The Editor
STUDENT GOVERINMEINT JOINS NATIONAL STUDENT
Letter:
This past November the
Student Government Association
here at NCSA joined with 45 other
schools in twenty-seven states as
a charter member of the National
Student Lobby. The purpose of
this lobby shall be to represent on
the national level of government
the member student associations
of the NSL and to advocate in
Congress those positions adopted
by Sie students represented by
the NSL.
AU NCSA students will be able
to vote on national issues here at
sdiool. Then this vote will be
given to Uie NSL to determine the
lobbying policy. The organization
hopes to focus and organize
student energies and opinions
towards realizing goals deter
mined by the member schools.
Already, the organization has
increas^ to 69 schools in thirty-
four states in only two months.
-Marilyn McIntyre, Sec.
The following is the Lobby’s
press release on the coming fight
in Congress over the Defense
Budget increase:
First Issue: ^2-3 Billion Defense Increase
The first shot has been fired in
the battle for the budget
priorities of the federal govern
ment for fiscal 1973. On
December 9, the Department of
Defense announced that a $2-3
billion increase would be
requested over last years defense
budget.
Spokesmen for the DOD claim
that the increase is need^ to
offset the buildup of Soviet land
and submarine missUe forces.
The proposal is to 1) speed-up the
rate at which U.S. minutmen
and Poseidon ICBMs are teing
converted to carry multiple
warheads 2) a speed-up in the
development of a new submarine
missile known as ULMS and 3)
development of ttie B-1 bomber.
Furthermore, the new Pen
tagon budget will go to Capitol
HiU (to be accepted or rejected)
in January. This tuning is not by
diance - in January the U.S. -
Soviet strategic arms limitations
talks will have reached a crucial
state in Vienna. In a fit of Or-
Art And The City
Michelangelo once called art “a jealous thing that
requires the whole and entire man.” This is fine as long
as one’s art does not totally isolate him from the outside
world. For it is the outside world that decides the im
portance of one’s art. Specifically speaking, we are all
here because of some talent, and it is that talent that is
our gift to the rest of the world. So here we are situated
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and we tour and
perform all around with little thought to the exact area
that we live in... to its problems and its needs.
Winston-Salem as a whole knows little about the
School of the Arts, and yet the school has been here for
six years. Why then this lack of communication? The
fault is divided between the people of Winston-Salem
and ourselves as artists. We should give more to our
community as we would the appraisers of our art. For
we must keep in mind where this school is homed and
the fact that it would not be here now if not for some of
Winston-Salem’s prominent citizens. This city is now
our address, our home, our community for as long as we
are at this school. We should be involved. But we aren’t.
Winston-Salem is more than just a dual-cigaretted
named city.
One big way we can help is with the various charitable
organizations. They are often in constant need of en
tertainment and the like. Because of the makeup of their
organization they cannot afford live entertainment. Yet
right within their own reaches a whole school of talent-
talent that would obviously merit from any per
formance, not to mention the good accomplished both
to the charity and our school. The possibilities are vast
in a school of our kind; the experience would be im
portant, and the good, unforgettable. Yet it seems we
are just too busy.
Art is not selfish, otherwise it would never have
existed throughout time. We as artists must learn to
step out of our cocoon of crafty self-importance and give
our gift of talent to those around us... to those who need
it. For a better understanding of the arts, it is our duty to
take this step and to keep trying. Only after that can the
misunderstanding and mystery of the arts and its people
be eliminated and a deeper love and appreciation
become a vast experience. -Brad White
N. C. ESSAY STAFF
Robin Kaplan
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Bill King
Bev Petty
Courtiandt Jones
Rick Shoenberger
Penny Dennis
John Coggeshall
David Martin
Jon Thompson
Frank Wolff
Editor
Assistant Editor
Advisor
Keith Pajkowski
Brad White
Sebastian de Grazia
Duke Emsberger
Clifford Young
John Woodson
Alicia Henley
Michael Singleton
Robin Dreyer
wellian logic, the DOD has
claimed that increasing the
military budget will give the U.S.
a “strong position” at the SALT
talks.
Many people, including
students, had hoped that with the
“winding down” of the Vietnam
war money now used for that
fiasco could go for badly needed
domestic programs. It appears
that students and others will be in
for a rude shock. Not only wiU
there be no savings from the
sui^sed “end to the war”, but
there will be an attempt to in
crease the military budget!
Students from across the
country have voted on the
National Student Lobby
referendum and the results have
indicated an overwhelming
mandate to cut the military
budget. 86 percent of the studente
who voted on the referendum said
they would like to see the military
budget reduced. In an attempt to
at least halt this proposed $2-3
billion increase, the NSL has
announced a major drive to block
the Department of Defense in
crease for fiscal 1973. The
strategy proposed by the NSL
staff is twofold. One, staff
members of the lobby in
Washington,D-C.will speak with
Congressmen and Senators to
convince them to vote down the
proposed increase.
Second, local pressure will be
brought upon Congressmen from
every state by new student
voters.
Since 1946 the military has
devoured more than
$1,000,000,000,000 and it is now
eating up $200,000,000 every day.
Not only are these funds going to
finance the air war in Indochina
(130,000 tons of bombs per
month) they are financing
programs such as the B-1 bomber
which will be obsolete by the
deployment date (sometime in
1980).
Essentially, America is armed
to the teeth and rotting to the
core. Our national priorities are
weighted on the side of
inhumanity and deaUi. There can
be no change of priorities, no
restoration of health and vitality
to the nation, until we reduce the
tapeworm - the parasite of
wasteful military spending - at
lOKESTIc
programs
pROG-RAAl
BUDGET PRIORITIES
HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN NCSA
BACK ON THE FARM?
During my first visit to my hometown I was faced with the
frustrating situation of explaining North Carolina &hool of the Arts to
the “outside people”. I found with each group I had a different in
terpretation and for some groups no interpretation at all. Parents,
former teachers, other artists, friends and relatives all got a different
picture of NCSA according to what I thou^t they could grasp or un
derstand.
How do you convince a former professor how busy you are when
your academic load consists of four semester hours instead of the
twenty hours you used to carry? How do you explain to your parents
that you’re still a freshman after they’ve spent thousands of dollars on
your college “career”? How do you explain to the girl that was once
your understudy that you’re not prepared or allowed to act in any
(X'oduction at NCSA? How do you convince your brother (The Jock of
the year) that NCSA has a gym but no basketball team? How do you
explain to your aunt that you don’t want to be an actress like Mario
Thomas? How do you convince your sister that after college you don’t
want to teach Tap at Barbara Jean’s School bf Dance? How do you tell
a High School beau how funny the Homecoming fraternity party was
when he lives in a fraternity? How do you convince your father that
you don’t think John Wayne deserved an Oscar for “Tkie Grit”? How
do you cope with an uncle who thinks Nureyv is a Tailback for the
Green Bay Packers? How do you tell a high school chum about NCSA’s
Homecoming Queens when she was elected Miss Eastern? How do
you convince your brotiier (the Jock) that male dancers do not wear
“tutu’s” and toe shoes? How do you convince some of your old acting
buddies that now one of your night spots on campus is a minister-
guidance counselor’s apartment? How do you impress a relative when
Oieir reply is “Marcel who?” How do you appease your father when he
thinks he’s paying $2300 for you to learn how to breathe? How do you
explain to your neighbors that your acting teacher is competant even
though he hasn’t been on “Marcus Welby”? How do you convince your
mother that free lessons at Merle Norman are not the same as make
up classes at school? How do you explain to radical friends that you’ve
never seen any protestors?
How do you convince your parents that after college you won’t be
able to find an available acting job in Rocky Mount, North Carolina?
How do you explain that NCSA is better than any other art school?
Bev Petty
least to manageable proportions.
This is why the National Student
Lobby has undertaken a cam-
pai^ to cut military spending.
Bill Mitchell, a staff member of
the NSL said recently, “The
military budget is armed robbery
- we must bring pressure upon
Congressmen and Senators to
stop the billion dollar increase to
an already inflated arms budget.
If you would like to see this
proposed increase defeated -
write and call your Con
gressman. Also, see that your
local newspapers have full
knowledge of DOD’s proposed
increase and encourage them to
write an editorial against the
budget increase.”
Cablevision
Editor
This school has a strange sense
of priorities. Recently telephones
were installed on every floor in
all the college dorms. Yet, still
we can barely receive more than
one station on those cheap
televisions we have in the
lounges.
Being an arts school, this
situation is ridiculous. It seems
ridiculous why not one television
on campus can pick up more than
WSJS without a lot of in
terference and static. Even the
programs on our own school
cannot be seen.
I fail to see why we still do not
have cablevision. Cablevision
costs $12 per television to install,
and $5 per month after that. The
price for cablevision in all the
lounges, including Sanford and
Moore dorms would come to $W
for installation, and $25 each
month. Surely this school can
afford that.
I have heard of plans calling for
cablevision in the lounges, the
main building, the Commons,
new televisions, color televisions,
all kinds and types of TV abun
dance. If the school cannot afford
all of this at once, why wait until
it can do everything? Why not
install cablevision in the lounges
now. Ten different stations, all in
crystal clarity, would be better
than our situation of one station
plus static any day. And well
worth it.
Michael Singleton
Groovy Poll
Recently, I conducted a poll.
Being of Polish origin, this task
was difficult because of the
conflict of interest. But not really
caring about petty greviences
that some people might have
concerning the idea, I decided to
ask NCSA students and a few
selected teachers whether or not
they were groovy.
As you can imagine, this was a
very subjective poll. Unlike
Neilson’s TV or presidential
questionnaires, one who is foolish
enough to undertake such a task
would more than likely receive a
variety of answers besides the
typical Yes, No, or No Comment.
bear in mind that although it is
difficult to imagine the results of
this poll printed in any un
derstandable procedure, it is
even more difficult to imagine
some flipped-out Polak asking
you if you are groovy.
THE RESULTS OF THE
are YOU GROOVY POLL
(Carefully calculated by
work-study students
who had nothing better to do)
Yes 75 percent
Maybe, but you’ll have to ask my
doctor 3 percent
I’mpsychadelic 1 percent
Would you repeat the question? 10
percent
F—off, kid , 11 percent
And so, as you can see, this poll
proves conclusively that 75
percent of this campus is groovy
or something similar. That
makes me feel a lot better.
-Keith Pajkowski