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91. 7, No. 5 N.C. SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Tuesday, April 16, 1974 PHONE; 784-0085
Crime Is Part Of Campus Life
By PRUDENCE MASON
and DON MARTIN
Kssay Staff Reporters
Crime penetrates every facet of school
life, it is a frequent occurence and sixty-
five hundred dollars is a conservative
estimate of what crime has cost the
school community this year.
Crime on the NCSA campus generally
falls into three categories: crime per
petrated on students by outsiders such
as, burglary, rape, etc.; student crime
against school property such as van
dalism, theft of school property and
equipment, writing bad checks ,to the
school, and student crime against the
community, such as shoplifting.
Since Christmas, four students have
had stereo equipment stolen from their
dormitory rooms.
A common thread runs through the
stereo thefts. All of the students who had
equipment stolen live on the ground floor
of their dormitories and three of the
thefts were committed during school
vacation. In all cases the thieves entered
through an open window.
Susan Ginn and Kaye Lowe, college
voice majors, had stereo equipment
stolen during Christmas vacation last
year. They had locked their doors and
windows before leaving, but it is
presumed that painters employed by the
school to refurbish the dormitories
during the vacation, left the windows
open to air the rooms.
Door Lacked
Rhonda Rhoades, a college drama
major, had a stereo stolen during spring
break. She had left her door and window
securely locked, but the window was
open when her roommate returned from
spring break. There was no sign of for
cible entry.
Roger Rutledge, a college design and
production student, had stereo speakers
stolen on the evening of March 31. He had
left his window open. Although other
valuable items such as a television,
money, an expensive stereo and receiver
were in the room, none of these items
were taken. He surmises the thieves just
“needed a set of good speakers or they
were going to steal more and lost their
nerve or someone came along or
something.”
Cnris Grace, of the maintenance statt,
recently caught several teenagers in a
student’s dorm room during class hours.
Grace, his foreman, and Arvid Olson, a D
& P student apprehended the intruders
and r covered watches and several other
personal articles belonging to students.
On the average, two newspapers a day
were being stolen from the newspaper
rack in front of the cafeteria, up until two
weeks ago. One student even saw a
faculty member stealing newspapers.
After David Winslow, the student in
charge of getting the newspapers on
campus, put a notice in Happenings
threatening stoppage of newspaper
service unless the thefts stopped, vir
tually no newspaper theft has occurred.
Larcenies
The Essay talked to Detective Sergeant
C.S. Pinkston of the Winston-Salem
police department about the amount ol
crime on the NCSA campus. “We have a
lot of larcenies over there, mostly
musical instruments”, he said, but he did
not consider the amount of crime unusual
for a campus of this size.
In past years attempted rapes and
exhibitionists have been a problem, but
Karen Shortridge, director of housing
and assistant director of student ac
tivities, says that none of these types of
crimes have been reported to her this
year.
Students seem confused about what
procedure should be used to report
crimes. There is a number used to call
security guards in case of emergencies,
but it is not generally posted near the
dormitory phones. Rutledge said he knew
that there was a security number, but
didn’t know what it was. “If I hadn’t been
See CRIME, Pg. 2, Col. 1
White Wins
Student
Elections
Ran With
Only Token
Opposition
By LORI GOTTEMOELLER
Essay Staff Reporter
Next year’s Student Council
Association officers and representatives
were selected in a school-wide election
held April 1. Brad White, a third-year
drama student, became the new
president, defeating write-in candidate
Mike Shurgan. White, who comes from
Richmond, Virginia, expresses his major
goals for next year this way: “I’m
planning on continuing our outside
projects like helping the N.C. School for
the Deaf, but basically I’m going to
concentrate on the problems here at
school. I’d particularly like to look into
the student activities program and
campus security.” He also expressed his
concern with the “apathy” of the NCSA
community as a whole. “I know how
people feel,” he said, “but unconcern
never brings about change.”
“I’d like the students to know that I am
their representative,” he continued.
“Any gripes or problems that they have,
they can bring to me, and I’ll do the best I
can to help. But I can’t help if I am not
told what is bothering the students.”
Marshall Thomas, the new vice-
president, is a third year design &
production student from East Point,
Georgia. He said about his election: “I’m
glad to keep going with student govern
ment. We got a lot done this year, and I
think a carry-over from this year’s
council 10 next year’s will be helpful.”
Bill Williams, third year voice student,
from Winston-Salem, became the new
business secretary, and Crystal Potter,
a high-school junior, music major, was
elected administrative secretary.
Dtpartniental Representatives
The representaiives of the Dance
Department are Joel Rich, college fresh
man of Georgina, Alabama, and Larry
Harper, high-school senior of Buchanan,
Virginia. The alternate is Baba Wallace,
high school sophomore from Chapel Hill.
Charles Ward, a freshman from
Raleigh, and Robert Wood of Sweet Briar
Virginia, a high school senior, will
represent the drama students. Rhonda
Essay Photo by Marshall Thomas
Susan Summers and Brad White
Rhoades of St. Petersburg, Florida, is the
alternate.
J.R. Stimson of Daytona Beach,
Florida, college freshman, and Roger
Rutledge, also a freshman from King,
N.C., tied for design and production
representative. Roland Guidry, a college
junior, of Winston-Salem, will be the
other representative.
Elected by the Music Department were
David Winslow of Greensboro, a college
sophomore, and Glen Medas, also a
college sophomore, from Attleboro,
Massachusetts. Ruth Hart, from
Hingham, Massachusetts, a college
freshman is the alternate.
See ELECTIONS, Pg. 2, Col. 4
Drama
London
Program
Juniors,
Seniors
Will Go
By SONNY LINDER
F'ssay Staff Reporter
Plans for a complete eight-month
session of study for 24 drama juniors
and seniors have been all but finalized,
Ronald Pollock, dean of Drama, stated in
an interview last week.
James Dodding has been the England
program liason in London for over a
year, said Pollock. A writer of several
well-known children’s books on mime,
Dodding has also taught at the Rose
Bruford School outside of London.
Pollock said that two colleges, the City
Literary Institute and Merely College,
are being considered as possible London
bases for the NCSA program. All faculty
members will be hired separately,
however, and the curriculum will be
See LONDON, Pg. 2, Col. 1
TM: Rx For Rest, Relaxation
TM
By SONNY LINDER
Essay Staff Reporter
The letters may stand for television
monitor, trace metals, tooth monster or
nothing at all.
But to about 30 students on campus and
about 500 other persons in Winston-
Salem, it is the abbreviation for Tran
scendental Meditation, a practice that is
growing fast world-wide on college
campuses, in business and in govern
ment.
The practice has become popular
enough to warrant articles in Time, The
New Englander, Today’s Health,
Psychology Today and Scientific
American.
It is, according to a Students Inter
national Meditation Society pamphlet,
“a simple natural technique of gaining
deep rest and relaxation which is easily
learned by everyone.” It is not a religion,
TM’ers say.
See TM, Pg. 8, Col. 1
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Sonny- Linder, Essay Reporter, Meditates
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