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The Pen
October 23, 1964
Do You Qualify?
Confronting Our
Challenges
“For those friends and churchmen
Living everywhere
Giving of their means to
Building our College rare. .
These lines from our College
Hymn are reminding. So, in ex
tending a welcome from this,
“College rare” to freshmen, new
students and upperclassmen, we
must point out that many chal
lenges face us as students.
First, it is a year in which we
upperclassmen can profit by the
mistakes of last year and work
towards better and stronger rela
tionships among ourselves, the Stu
dent Council and the Administra
tion. We must learn to listen, as
well as to speak; take criticism
gracefully and be ready to benefit
by it; be patient and understand
ing. These points draw us closer
together; therefore, the Admims-
tration will be more willing to lis
ten to us not only as students but as
young adults with mature minds.
There are other challenges facing
us both academically and socially.
Since the Civil Rights Bill has been
passed, it is more important than
ever for us to evaluate our,purpose
for being in college. We should
place more emphasis on ACA
DEMIC EXCELLENCE, as our
Administration strongly points out.
So many opportunities are bemg
extended in our direction, and we
must be ready to grasp them. The
only way we can do this is to be
prepared intellectually.
In our newly found freedom, we
must also be socially prepared in
manners, dress and in all our ac
tions. It would be well for us to be
more cognizant of these matters
each minute of the day.
With election year, there is a
challenge facing coUege students
twenty-one years and over — that
of taking advantage of voting
rights. This privilege should by no
means be neglected. The most won
derful freedom is here. Let us take
advantage of it.
Finally, challenges confront all
of us as members of Saint Augus
tine’s family; and that is working
towards the centennial celebration
which is only three years away.
With Homecoming here, let us show
our alumni friends that we are con
tinuing to build our “College rare.
Editor-in-Chief
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In Joining The PEN
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Watch The Bulletin
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Meeting After
Homecoming
The PEN Staff
Member of the Collegiate Press
Editor-in-Chief
Maurvene DeBerry
Associate Editor James Moore
Contributing Editors Grace
Horne, Juana Lopez,
Vernon McClean
Sports Editors Thomas Har
grove, Gigi Gray, and
George Williams
Reporters Ester Walker, Mary
Brinson, Reginald El
liott, Gigi Gray
Cartoonist Waymond Burton, Jr.
Photographer Brenda Dowery
Courtesy of the Public
Relations Department
Business and Circulation
Manager Robert E. Williams
Typists Constance Horsley,
Delores Coleman
Advisors
Mrs. Thelma Roundtree Advisor
Mrs. Jin Young Kim .. Co-advisor
Miss Helen Chavis Co-advisor
This is the official newspaper of
Saint Augustine’s College, Raleigh,
North Carolina which is publisligd
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year.
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What A Parallel
1. Both Presidents, Lincoln and
Kennedy, were concerned with
the issue of Civil Rights.
2. Lincoln was elected in 1860;
Kennedy, in 1960.
3. Both were slain on Friday,
and in the presence of their
wives.
4. Both were shot in the head
from behind.
5. Successors were named John
son, were Southern Democrats,
and both were in the Senate.
6. Andrew Johnson was born in
1808; Lyndon Johnson was
born in 1908.
7. John Wilkes Booth was born in
1839; Lee Harvey Oswald was
born in 1939.
8. Booth and Oswald were South
erners favoring unpopular
ideas.
9. Both Presidents’ wives lost
children through death while
in the White House.
10. Booth and Oswald were exe
cuted before going to trial.
11. Lincoln’s secretary whose
name was Kennedy, advised
him not to go the theatre.
12. Kennedy’s secretary, whose
name was Lincoln, advised
him not to go to Dallas.
13. John Wilkes Booth shot Lin
coln in a theatre and ran to a
warehouse.
14. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Ken
nedy from a warehouse and
ran to a theatre.
15. The names Lincoln and Ken
nedy each contain 7 letters.
16. The names Andrew Johnson
and Lyndon Johnson each con
tain 13 letters.
17. The names John Wilkes Booth
and Lee Harvey Oswald each
contain 15 letters.
18. Andrew Johnson was not elect
ed after finishing his prede
cessor’s term: His successor’s
name began with the letter
“G.”
LBJ vs AuH20
By REGINALD B. ELLIOTT
Perhaps most of us will agree
that in this election we have more
at stake than in any other election
in the history of the United States.
Obviously, those who, at any given
moment, are the strongest in any
civilization, will be those who are at
once the ruling class. Those who
own most property are those who
have most influence on legislation.
The weaker will fare hardly in
proportion to their weakness. Such
is the order of nature; but, since
those are the strongest through
whom nature finds it, for the time
being, easier to vent her energy,
and as the whole universe is in
ceaseless change, it foUows that
the composition of ruling classes
is never constant, but shifts to cor
respond with the shifting environ
ment. Indeed our environment has
changed so that we must have the
strongest, best qualified, and able
leaders to lead us in such difficult
times.
Both Democratic and Republican
leaders say that the biggest cam
paign issue is Barry Goldwater
himself. They believe that Gold-
water’s “war talk” can bring him
down to disastrous defeat. Gold
water now appears to be solid in
four states with 152 electoral votes.
This would give him a total of 195
electoral votes — 85 short of vic
tory.
By and large, thera is bipartisan
agreement that Mr. Johnson leads
now. The politicians estimate that
he is solid in twelve states with
147 electoral votes, and fourteen
states with 165 electoral votes are
also leaning to him now. If he wins
them all, Mr. Johnson would have
a total of 312 electoral votes, or 42
more than the 270 he needs to win.
Now is the time to go about the
business of selecting the next
President of the United States. A
task which all American citizens
must face so that they may scowl
their hearts, and minds to make
that vital decision on November
3, 1964.
Check this list of books recom
mended by The American Library
Association for all college bound
students. See if you’ve qualified!
If you haven’t — make haste!
FICTION
Austin — Pride and PrejudlEe
Balzac Pere Goriot
Bellamy — Looking Backward:
2000-1887
Berry — Flight of White Crows
Bronte — Jane Eyre
Bronte — Wuthering Heights
Buck — The Good Earth
Butler — Way of all Flesh
Cather — My Antonia
Cervantes — Don Quixote
Clemens — Huckleberry Finn
Collins — Moonstone
Conrad — Lord Jim
Crane — Red Badge of Courage
Dickens — David Copperfield
Dostoevskii —- Crime and Punish
ment
Dreiser — An American Tragedy
Dumas — Counte of Monte Cristo
Elliott — Mill on the Floss
Fitzgerald — Great Gatsby
Fuller —Loon Feather
Galsworthy — Forsyth Saga
Glasgow — Vein of Iron
Godden — China Court
Guareschi — Little World of Don
Camillo
Hardy — Return of the Native
Hawthorne — Scarlet Letter
Hemingway — Old Man and the
Sea
Hersey — Single Pebble
Hudson — Green Mansions
Hugo — Les Miserables
Kipling — Kim
Lavin — The Great Wave
Lewis — Arrowsmith
Llewellyn — How Green Was My
Valley
Maugham — Of Human Bondage
Melville — Moby Dick
Mitchell — Gone With the Wind
Monsaarrat — Cruel Sea
Nordhoff and Hall — Bounty Trio-
logy
O’Connor — Edge of Sadness
Orwell — Animal Farm
Page — Tree of Liberty
Paton — Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton — Tales from a Troubled
Land
Poe — Complete Tales and Poems
Rawlings — The Yearling
Remarque — All Quiet on the West
ern Front
Richter — Sea of Grass
Roberts — Northwest Passage
Rolvaag — Giants in the Earth
Saroyan — Human Comedy
Sarton — The Small Room
Schmidt — Rembrandt
Scott — Ivanhoe
Shillabarger — Prince of Foxes
Slenkiewicz — Quo Vadis
Steinbeck — Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck — Winter of Our Discon
tent
Stevenson — Kidnapped
Stewart — Storm
Stone — Love Is Eternal
Taylor — A Journey to Matecumbe
Thackeray — Vanity Fair
Tolstoy — War and Peace
Turgenev — Father and Sons
Undset — Kristin and Laurandotter
Wharton — Ethan Frome
Wilder — Bridge of San Luis Key
Wright — Eight Men
NON FICTION
Bach — Stranger to the Ground
Baldwin — Fire Next Time
Bennett — Jamie
Bontemps — America Negro Poe
try
Borland — When Legends Die
Bourke-White — Portrait of Myself
Clark — Profiles of the Future
Cousteau — Living Sea
Daley — Pro - Football’s HaU of
Fame
Dulles — Craft of Intelligence
Frisch — Man and the Living World
Marshall — River Ran Out of Eden
Mosley — Faces From the Fire
North — Rascal
Roosevelt — Tomorrow Is Now
Sandburg — Stoney and Salt
Adams — Education of Henry
Adams
Adamson — Living Free
Aiken — Selected Poems
Anderson — My Lord What A
Morning
Baldwin — Nobody Knows My
Name
BeU — Men of Mathematics
Boroff — Campus USA
Buck — My Several Worlds
Chute — Shakespeare in London
Curie — Madame Curie
Frank — Anne Frank: The Diary
of a Young Girl
Franklin — Autobiography
Goethe — Faust
Graves — Collected Poems
Guerard — Napoleon I
Hagedorn — The Roosevelt Family
of Sagamore Hill
Hentoff — Jazz Life
Kenman — Russia and the West
Under Lenin and Stalin
Kennedy — Profiles in Courage
Krutch — Henry David Thoreau
New Faculty
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the University of Pennsylvania in
the area of mathematics; James
F. Wise who will also study at the
University of Pennsylvania in the
area of art; and Mrs. Angela
Johnson, studying chemistry.
Robert A. Smithey, assistant
professor of English, has been
granted an IBM fellowship through
the United Negro CoUege Fund to
pursue doctoral studies during the
incoming year at the University of
Wisconsin.
Miss Saint Aug.
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campus and establish a friendly
relationship.
Miss Rochelle was crowned Miss
Saint Augustine’s at the Coronation
Ball. “Being crowned queen of
Saint Augustine’s College is my
greatest attainment” is the com
ment made by Miss Saint Augus
tine’s.
The presentation of Miss Saint
Augustine’s during half-time vdU
climax the College’s homecoming
festivities.
The Purpose
Of The College
Newspaper
What is the purpose of the college
newspaper? Is it a scandal sheet?
A voice of the students? A voice of
the administration? A college pub-
Uc relations organ?
The time has come when these
questions must be answered. Just
what is the purpose of the college
newspaper?
According to the leading journal
ists, a newspaper is responsible
to its public, that is to the majority
of its reading public. Its main ef
fort should be to inform and to aid
the views of its readers.
It should take side on all is
sues which affect its public. Its
stand may be contrary to the ideas
of some or in agreement wdth oth
ers. Only in rare cases should a
newspaper exhibit a case of neu
trality, for neutrality is nothing
ness; and a newspaper whose poli
cy is nothingness is not worth its
existence.
A newspaper should present both
sides of issues. It should, however,
take a stand in favor of the factors
which are concerned with the wel
fare of its public.
A newspaper should not owe al
legiance to any organization or to
any particular person ■ or group
save the majority of its readers.
In the case of a college news
paper? It should be the voice of the
student body. These are the peo
ple responsible for its being, and
it is directly responsible for their
being informed on any matters
pertaining to their welfare.
As far as a newspaper’s being a
Public Relations Organ, according
to Public Relations authorities, this
is what a college newspaper should
never be. It should be independent
of and free from any influence of
college Public Relations. It is not
the duty of the college newspaper
to spread the image of a college in
an effort to secure applications
but to keep its readers, tlTe stu
dents, informed and to air their
views.
However, in a college there are
administrators, and faculty mem
bers, and a newspaper should take
upon itself the responsibility of air
ing their views also whether they
be contrary to the students’ views
or not.
If the airing of contrary views
makes for a “bad newspaper” or
a “scandal sheet” then what is a
good newspaper?
According to the slogan of the
New York Times, a newspaper
should print “All the news that is
fit to print about a particular per
son, institution or thing. It cannot
print or say only the good and dis
regard the bad. It should print
both. Once a person, institution or
thing moves into the public’s eye,
then it must be ready to receive
all comments whether they be fav
orable or unfavorable.
A newspaper does not make
news, nor is it always accurate;
it only publishes the news. Who
makes it or what makes it is a
different thing.
Serving as a leader in the cause
for democracy on this campus
THE PEN bases its founda
tion for operation on the forestat
ed facts, THE PEN invites com
ments and criticisms on all mat
ters. Those appearing in the form
of a letter will be published, if they
are in good taste, good form and
are endorsed with signatures and
addresses.
In an effort to be as accurate as
possible, THE PEN invites cor
rections of any statements made
when such facts are inaccurate.