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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Friday, September 20,1963
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ASSOrjATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
PRESS
HAROLD FOSTER
Editor
EVERETT ADAMS
Business Manager
ROBERT MOORMAN’S
Letter Reveals Woes Of Summer
JEAN NORRIS
Advisor
OFFICE EXTENSION 325
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AMERICA’S “A” BOMB
Kennedy and Khrushchev signed the treaty—
A splendid pact that was very much needed;
So the nuclear bomb is not our threat
And the shelters won’t be needed yet. ,
Now the thing from which to run and hide
Is from the bomb built inside;
Not from a bomb the likes of a Communist or a Birch,
But from the type which destroyed a Birmingham church.
DR. MASSIE: A WISE CHOICE
We have not met Dr. Samuel P. Massie, yet; we have only
seen and heard him, briefly; but we admire him, welcome him;
he has the presidential qualities needed for a growing North Caro
lina College.
Dr. Massie brings prestige to NCC with his long string of
achievements. He has been Associated Program Director for Un
dergraduate Science Education of the National Science Founda
tion, during which time he administered an 8 million dollar pro
gram for undergraduate science equipment. He has been profes
sor and chairman of chemistry and pharmaceutical departments
in two of the nation’s top universities, Fisk and Howard. Among
his achievements in the science field, other than his research in
cancer, drugs, explosives and atomic energy, he has written a
paper on his research in “phenothia” science which received inter
national recognition. In 1961, he was hailed as one of the six
top chemistry professors in America, at an age 20-years below
the average age. He has served three years, 1956-59, as National
President of the Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Society. And he has
been a visiting professor to many colleges and universities through
out the nation.
Dr. Massie is a native of the South. He finished elementary
and secondary education in his home town. Little Rock, Ark., at
an age of 13 years. He received his B.S. degree from Dunbar
Junior College and Arkansas A. M. & N. College, his Master’s de
gree from Fisk, and his Doctorate at Iowa State Universi-ty.
Unknowingly, Dr. Massie brings the match needed to light NCC’s
torch. He has taken his stand for quality education, which will
send students from here “totally educated” and more cognizant of
world affairs. He has dedicated himself to making NCC “a bet
ter place to live, work and play.
In the future. Dr. Massie will carry out all aspects of his
“educational credo.” Students will see more of Dr. Massie as he
will be among them more finding out things about the campus,
‘ first hand. NCC’s coed will get that long awaited liberation, and
the faculty will have a shake in administration policy. There are
going to be come changes made! In fact Dr. Massie said it him
self: “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”
Z-I-P SPELLS AUTOMATION
At the rate things are going now, when most of the present
co-eds get married they will find married life more relaxing be
cause they will spend only a short thirty minutes with daily house
chores; and the bachelors will find domestic life easier too.
Why? Well, it has something to do with a simple three-letter
word, Z-I-P. We don’t know who started it or where it came
from; it could have come from J. Edward Day when he was up
in Washington, or it could have come from the Anhauser Busch
clan out in Missouri-Illinois, we don’t know. All we know is
that one day we woke up and every product in the house was
either labeled Zip, was Zipping, or had been Zipped. The mail
man was telling us to use the Zip Code number to help speed-up
the postal system; after opening the Zip-door refrigerator and
taking out a beer, we didn’t have to conduct our usual search for
a church key (beer opener) E-Z we simply zipped off a portion
of the lid; and more surprising was the ice cream package; No
more sticky hands from wrestling with the ice cream carton—
that’s right brother! just zip it.
The future of this zip system can be summed up zippily: There
will be no more school miseries: we’ll zip out of bed when our
zip clock zips to the waking hour; we’ll get clean by the zip plumb
ing facilities; we’ll take a zip cart to the dining hall and zip
through our food which will be grown, canned, shipped, opened,
cooked and served the zip way; next, we’ll zip to class where we
won’t have to thumb through the books, but rather . . . that’s right;
then; after studying our zip lecture notes and comparing them with
the zip outline series to better zipping, we’ll zip through the final
exams given by the zip method; and, finally, after packing our
clothes by the zip method, we’ll zip home on the zip transportation
lines—a whole school year zipped away. Pretty zippy, huh?
But for the present time, we are still laboring to find out how
and why z-i-p was started. The only thing we can conclude at
this time is that it must be a short way to spell A-U-T-O-M-A-
T-I-O-N.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Shortly be
fore returning to school here
this fall, Robert E. Moorman, a
junior Sociolbgy - Psychology
major from Winston-Salem, was
arrested in his home town and
placed under a $500 bond for
“obstructing the sidewalk.” Pes
simistic about his return here
this year because of his impris
onment, Mr. Moorman sent the
following letter to the CAMPUS
ECHO and asked that it be pub
lished as an official statement as
to how the ‘‘racial situation in
this city (Winston-Salem) is af
fecting the majority of the Ne
gro citizens.”
I and rfiany other black citi
zens are prisoners for freedom
here at the Forsyth County Jail.
Our imprisonment is unjust, for
we were confined here simply
because we are black-skinned
Americans seeking service in a
place licensed to serve the pub
lic.
But we are not alone for we
represent some 40,000 Negroes
in Winston-Salem who are now
beginning to throw away the
stamps of compliance and in
feriority.
The white man here has yet
to realize that he is in the midst
of a social revolution, destined
to change the whole insides of
this race infested citj;. Either
he gets “hipped” to this vital
and urgent change or the injus
tices administered to the black
ness of my skin will serve to
intimidate his own security and
destiny, and will be his ultimate
destruction.
The only thing the white man
has that the black man needs is
power; history shows that no
one holds power forever.
Not too long ago I would have
hated the white man, my op
pressor; but now I am piteous of
him, mainly to keep from de
spising his profound racial sick
ness. I know the latter is not a
Christian way to feel towards
my white brother. I know, too,
that it demands a great spirit
ual resilience not to hate the
hater who rapes your women,
hangs your black brother, makes
your parents a low paid disre
spected scullion, and denies you
your God-given and constitu
tional rights. I know even fur
ther that it takes a lot of will
power to restrain yourself from
teaching your children to hate
this oppressor. But I am suffer
ing now from my forefathers
being made to have faith in his
moral conviction. Now is the
time for the white man to show
some moral concern for man
kind.
*
The white man here and all
over the nation must realize
that the so-called Negro of me
diocrity does not exist in this
day and time. Keep me a “sec-
ond-class citizen” if you must,
but don’t make me pay first-
class taxes. Keep me uneducat
ed, but don’t give me the same
test you give the educated
“white boy” when we apply for
a job. Tell me I stink, but ask
yourself who turned off the wa
ter and wouldn’t sell me soap.
Sell me your ■'Cigarettes, but
^ Movie Review
Rialto Features
Durham’s Rialto Theatre is
not an ordinary theatre. It is
not the place to go if you ex
pect to see an ordinary movie
designed to appease the masses.
It is not the place to go if you
expect to be amused by the wit
ty remarks of the bawling
crowd. And finally, it is not the
place to go if you intend to see
movies that will not make you
sit up straight and think.
Since its first opening, the
Rialto has vied for the honor
of being the Triangle Area’s
number one movie house of
art. If it continues to bring in
movies like Federico Fellini’s
“SVz”, it will have not trouble
reaching its goal.
In chosing “8V2” as a school
opener and a vacation ender,
Rialto manager, Maggie Dent,
has scored highly. The film not
only gets one off to seeing a
good movie, but it also gets one
off to exercising his intellect.
■ Fellini’s first full-length fea
ture film since the acclaimed
“La Dolce Vita,” “81/2” opened
at the Rialto Theatre here early
this week and at least a two-
weeks engagement is anticipat
ed for it.
Alternating between fantasy
and reality, “81/2” recounts the
artistic and moral crisis of a
famous film director who, about
to begin a new movie, finds
himself bankrupt of ideas. It is
through the investigation of his
own life that he achieves both
artistic and personal fulfillment.
“8V2’ ’takes its title from the
fact that Fellini had previously
directed six full-length films
and three vignettes (“halves”),
including a sequence from Le
vine’s Boccaccio ’70.” *
Fellini has in this film a mas
terpiece. He leaves no stones un
turned as he compresses wit,
satire, sex, and iriaginatioH i>sto
this, great film.
Italy’s top motion picture
director, Fellini went in for
really unusual type-casting for
“8V2”. Portraying the director,
Marcello Mastroianni again
demonstrates his versatility and
his brilliance. Mastroianni is
currently at work in “Yester
day, Today, and Tomorrow,” co-
starred with Acadamy Award
winning actress Sophia Loren,
and will follow it with “Casa
nova,” both Joseph E. Levine-
Carlo productions. He is said to
be Fellini’s favorite actor; we
can see why.
Opposite Mastroianni is Clau
dia Cardinale. She plays a dual
role of a famous actress in real
life and a vision of purity in one
of Mastroianni dreams.
Anouke Aimee, who played
Mastroianni^s mistress in “La
Dolce Vita,” portrays his wife
in “8I/2”.
In other roles are Sandra
Milo, essaying Mastroianni’s
mistress; Rossella Falk, Barbara
Steele, Guido Alberti, Madeli-
ine Lebeau, Jean Rougeul, and
American opera singer Edra
Gale.
Fellini brings these beauties
together in a harem scene, the
most delightful scene in the
film. This is ribaldry at its rare
best.
In its broadest and perhaps
purest sense, “8V2” is the time-
immemorial struggle of men
seeking self-discovery in the
chaotic, complex, non - stop
world of the 20th Century. Fel
lini seems to be saying the
struggle is as great as the need
for everyone. This is a very,
poignant film.
The Rialto Theatre says what
we want to say: '‘8V2” is an en
chanting film. We cannot recom-
rp^end it too highly, too enthusi-
astecally.”
don’t give me only the menial
and dirtiest, low paying jobs in
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com
pany, feeding packers and hop
pers.
A lot of innocent people here
are misinformed and are under
a false impression in regard to
this so-called law of obstructing
the sidewalk. This law is con
doning segregation and we have
no respect for it.
In any society there are two
types of laws, unjust and just.
An unjust law is a law estab
lished by the oppressor to keep
a minority group oppressed. A
just law is a law sanctioned by
a moral code, and is in harmony
with our God given rights-
Which law shall we cater to?
Mayor Benton of Winston-
Salem issued a statement that
declared this city as having
made “satisfactory progress.”
Let me be the first to inform
him that we are not looking for
nor seeking “tokenism;” we are
seeking. All-Now. Why should
we settle for a slice of bread
when the whole loaf is in reach
ing distance and truthfully be
longs to us anyhbw?
Winston-Salem’s present
mayor is a moderate white, and
the only thing he is concerned
with is the laws and orders that
will protect only his white skin.
The mayor will be informed that
ah old minister had an answer
waiting for his kind long ago
when he spoke before a free
dom rally and told his audience,
“There can be no laws and ord
ers in a segregated society.”
The white man is at his hour
of decision. Will he hear the
alarm and roll over, half asleep
and shut it off in order to. ke^p
it from disturbing his peaceful
dream?
Here in Wintton-Salem as
all over the nation, the black
man is going to make freedom,
justice and equality roll down
like the mighty rivers of Jor
dan. Tell the white man to wake
up! before he gets drowned in
this mighty stream called time,
PARKER
SEES CHANGE
Dear Editor:
When one enters NCC for the
fifth year, one cannot help but
notice the changes that have
taken place; I refer here to the
students’ attitudes.
From a short observation of
students’ actions here for the
past few days it is hard to de
termine whether or not they are
ready for work or acting as
paragons for our new president
and faculty members.
If they are ready to begin
work then at the end of the first
semester, the student body
should be rewarded with desir
ous grades. However, if they
are merely acting as paragons,
then they should be awarded
some other noble prize.
At any rate, the students
have started school with a har
mony that is rare to NCC.
During the past few years I
have watched students start the
school year immaturely. In an
effort to gain prestige or recog
nition as upperclassmen, many
upperclassmen ruthlessly drub
bed the freshmen. And the fresh
men, justly countered with
acts as notoriously incongruous
of mature students.
But this year the battle has
subsided. The upperclassmen
are displaying an exceptionally
good attitude toward the fresh
men; and the freshmen are feel
ing welcomed.
Without doubt, if the students
keep the same attitudes they
have now, NCC will witness one
(See LETTER, page 3)