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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1973 THE DECREE It’s a new semester, I’ve got a new column head and I’m just a tad psyched up so I’ve decid ed to get offthe EditorialWork- bench for awhile and get back to the people. This is my first column in quite a while. Bet you haven’t noticed. But there is so much to write about now; so much that’s been put off and so much new stuff happen ing around here. Make this column an effort at grab-bag journalism. ♦ * * We, as every other college newspaper get a large supply of junk mail. Most of it is direct ed to The Editor but unless it has ol’ Charlie’s name on it I don’t feel too badly about open ing it. Most of it is the regu lar pitches from wire services like Free-Form Wire Service. That’s the company that sends out those neat little fillers a- bout such topics as “College Student Cleans Room — Finds Kidnap Victim From Last Term.” But sometimes we get some good ones. One of the goodies was received by us last November from Hartford Conn. It was from THE ADAM AND EVE FIGLEAF COMPANY. A Mr. Charles E. MacArthur, president of Aeostats - Bal loons, was announcing a new company that was in business to sell, as the name might imply, figleafs. They swear it’s for real. It’s a man made material that, according to Mr. MacAr thur, “easy to apply, adhering gently but firmly without the cruditis of glues, straps, pas tes or adhesives.” Oh boy! If you want one send your money to The Adam and Eve Figleaf Company, P. O. 634, South Windsor, Connecticut, 06074. You should allow two or three weeks. They, or rather Mr. MacArthur suggests ordering now before the spring rush. I’m saving my pennies. It sounds like just the thing for “Spring Fling,” Speaking of “Spring Fling,” I’ve got one question to ask somebody. What kind of fools do you think run the ol’ Social Commission? Somebody, I as sume a student, picked up all the questionnaires concerning “Spring Fling” that landed on the floor and stuffed the ballot box with them. When it got to the question about what bands you like every one of them had “Warehouse” down for the band. It’s a real band. I’ve got ten info on them before. But the fact remains that somebody around here must either play in the band, have a boyfriend in the band or must manage the band because it took awhile, it seems to mark over sixty of those questionnaires. But the question is , , , did you think, with three, not two but three years of ol’ college under my belt that I would think that six ty different people were really hung up on some band from Wil son???? And especially because of the banal attempts at chang- old. Very impressive, B promotional stunt wasn’t, going to give all the quest aires about Warehouse to Omega and to WRMT, Pe they can use them forthei (Rock Concert). But, ons thought, maybe the next they play at the Other Eye] will invite me (free, of co so I can check them out. Since writing what you just read I’ve found out whl culpret is concerning thesi] odd stuffed ballots. I promo kit in the mail them. A student’s cousin play the band. I hope the stu| won’t be offended by this umn. I’m sure the stu would agree that it’s nol counting phony ballots. Itf a nice try, though. But I’m f to give the promo kit toth^ O’s and WRMT. Anyway, already booked the spring. I A new story . , , Therq place in Chapel Hi 11 called ' Tavern”. It’s downstairs uj a professional building or outskirts of the town. Ireml ber when I was in high sch/ lot of my friends used there. My high school fr^ loved the place; it was bia a good juke box, and It wai ^ top drinking place for Carolina" students. Well, pretty soon there were more of us high school students in the place than college students. The ABC men started coming real often, and the guy who owned the place sta rted checking I.D.’s at the door. The last time I went over there when I was in high school was It before graduation. But oticed that there weren’t ^ many college kids there nore. I came to find out that had moved “uptown” to a y little bar called “Claren- ” Twenty people can hardly n the place but every night :he week the ol’ Carolina lents manage to fit just about ■ybody in. They just stand ind . . . there’s no place to That was three years ago. ■n I go back to the tavern it's the same way , . . high X)1 students and dropouts, to think, “The Tavern” once an institution in Cha- Hill, for financial aid for ou plan to return to picked up the appro- Id Office NOW is the slf of the aid you are lid be completed be- ON ANCE 9d within 24 same day you leave! FREE W36 ition k dentally df grew, to switch'ov cash crops. Now the problem is to dimi nish the flow of heroin from elsewhere in the world, notably Southeast Asia, Although the Administration estimates that the Southeast Asian heroin traf fickers have only 5 to 10 per cent of the American black mar ket, the true total is probably much higher. Chemists aren’t able to analyze heroin and de termine where it was grown. There are no reliable chemical tests. However, we do know that Burma, Laos and Thailand now produce about 700 tons of opium per year, and that this can be converted into about 70 tons of heroin — much more than A- merica’s drug racketeers need — and much more than that nee ded by the huge Asian addict population. With a surplus of dope sup plies building up in Southeast Asia, there is even more pres sure for additional world mar kets. can’t be converted into heroin without a chemical called ace tic anhydride. Most of it used in Southeast Asia comes from Japan, which has no govern ment restrictions, controls or monitoring of its export. If America becomes a land of “opium - eaters”, thenwe won’t even be a fifth-rate power. For sure, we’ll be at the bottom of the heap — mentally, morally, spiritually and materially. Religious Emphasis (Continued from Page 1) In seminary he was chosen for membership in the Internation al Society of Theta Phi “in consideration of scholarship and distinction,” He was also awarded the James Boswell Mitchell’s Sr,, MemorialAward in Preaching, given to “the out standing preacher in the senior class” at Candler School of Theology, from which he gra duated with honors. PLANTERS
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